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And God Spoke
Hebrews 1:1 – 3
Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our
ancestors through the prophets.
But now in these final days, he has spoken to us
through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance,
and through the Son he made the universe and everything in it.
The Son
reflects God's own glory, and everything about him represents God
exactly. He sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command.
After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the
place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven.
Many religions claim
to have heard from their god and that their “god” speaks to them. No
religion aside from those founded on the Bible make the sort of claim that
we do; that is, that our God exists as pure Spirit, eternal, infinite and
transcendent. It is a bold claim that can not be proved nor disproved,
only accepted or rejected. Since human reason alone is doomed to fail us
in this debate, let us reconsider the Way that we “defend the hope of our
salvation”. Consider the Word of God as a Person revealed by His Holy
Spirit through the Bible writers.
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The Creation event brought an entire universe into
being at the command of God. In your English translation, you could count
a few hundred words cataloging each time that “God said”, and something
came to be. In Hebrew, it would be about 100 words. We are not perfectly
sure whether or not God’s commands were truly verbal since there was no
way to comprehend or hear words before there was a place for sound waves
to wiggle in the air. The New Testament informs us in the first chapter
of the gospel of John that Jesus Christ Himself is the Creator. We also
call Him “The Word”, or Logos. In Greek, Logos means mind, intellect or
thought. So, in Christianity, the entire system is founded on the
eternal, infinite, immutable and entirely “thoughtful” Word of God!
Perhaps this is why God included in the list of things that we are to
worship Him with … the word “mind”.
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God rescued His chosen people from the Egyptians and
miraculously led them to the place where He would speak to them directly.
His Words were given to establish a covenant and declare His perfect
righteousness. The Apostle Paul teaches us in the New Testament that this
Law was a “tutor” to show us our need for Christ. The Law, or as the
Hebrew of Exodus 20 states, “the Words” were that tutor. Amazing! The
Person Who is the Word of God is our personal tutor to show us the Way to
Him!
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Finally, consider the words of the Living Word Himself
when He bore our sins to the cross. Interesting … there were very few
words that He gave … and none of them were given to save Himself. All of
the words that He could have said to bring it all to an end, to judge the
world right then, to speak with the power of Creation again and to command
legions of angels to destroy His enemies. No such words were uttered.
Instead, in His last words, He pardoned the sin of a thief and forgave
those who killed them.
You see, the speech of our God is not always a
declaration or a command or a judgment; rather, it is (1) the very Word of
Life, (2) it is the teaching Word of a loving Father and (3) it is the
Word of forgiveness. No other god is like our God! No other love is like
the Love we share with our Heavenly Father. Salvation belongs to our God
alone and in accordance with His Word.
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