through a burning bush? (exodus 3:4) through dreams? (gen. 20:3)
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HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
Through a burning bush? (Exodus 3:4)
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
Through a burning bush? (Exodus 3:4)
Through Dreams? (Gen. 20:3)
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
Through a burning bush? (Exodus 3:4)
Through Dreams? (Gen. 20:3)
Through Angels? (Gen. 22:11)
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
Through a burning bush? (Exodus 3:4)
Through Dreams? (Gen. 20:3)
Through Angels? (Gen. 22:11)
Through Visions? (Gen. 15:1)
HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY?
Through a burning bush? (Exodus 3:4)
Through Dreams? (Gen. 20:3)
Through Angels? (Gen. 22:11)
Through Visions? (Gen. 15:1)
“God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers
manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son…” (Hebrews 1:2, cf. Jer. 1:9)
Starting When?
“at the end of these days” - “In these last days “
Starting When?
First Pentecost after Jesus’ Resurrection – God poured forth His Sprit… (Acts 2:17, Joel 2:28, Acts 11:15)
“at the end of these days” - “In these last days “
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – Promised: teach, bring to your remembrance all
Jesus had said (Jn. 14:25, 26)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – Promised: teach, bring to your remembrance all
Jesus had said (Jn. 14:25, 26)– Guide you in all the truth – declare to you things
to come (Jn. 16:13)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – Promised: teach, bring to your remembrance all
Jesus had said (Jn. 14:25, 26)– Guide you in all the truth – declare to you things
to come (Jn. 16:13)– Apostles speak the words of Christ (Jn. 16:14,
2 Cor. 4:3-7)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – Promised: teach, bring to your remembrance all
Jesus had said (Jn. 14:25, 26)– Guide you in all the truth – declare to you things
to come (Jn. 16:13)– Apostles speak the words of Christ (Jn. 16:14,
2 Cor. 4:3-7)– Holy Spirit furnished the thought and words to
express the thought – verbal inspiration (I Cor. 2:11-13)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – Promised: teach, bring to your remembrance all
Jesus had said (Jn. 14:25, 26)– Guide you in all the truth – declare to you things
to come (Jn. 16:13)– Apostles speak the words of Christ (Jn. 16:14,
2 Cor. 4:3-7)– Holy Spirit furnished the thought and words to
express the thought – verbal inspiration (I Cor. 2:11-13)
– Apostles’ writings (Eph. 3:4-5, I Cor. 14:37)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
• Through the Holy Spirit – in the Apostles – And upon whom the apostles laid their hands –
imparting the spiritual gifts (I Cor. 12:4-11, Acts 8:17, 19:6)
How God Speaks To Us In His Son…
Seventh Day Adventism
“We believe she has been empowered by a divine
illumination to speak of some past events which have been thus brought to her attention, with greater minuteness than
is set forth in any existing records, and to read the future
with more than human foresight.”
(Preface to Great Controversy)
Joseph Smith
“In counsel with the twelve apostles, Joseph Smith said, ‘ I told the brethren that the book of Mormon was the
most correct of any book on earth…and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than any other book.’”
(A Compendium of the Doctrine of the Gospel; p.
273).
Charles T. RussellJehovah’s Witnesses
“That one cannot have the true light without the help of ‘Studies
in the Scriptures’, first called ‘Millennial Dawn”… If an one lays
‘Scriptural Studies’ aside even after he has become familiar with
them, even after he has read them ten years, and goes to the
Bible alone, though he has understood his Bible for ten years, our experience shows that within two years he goes into darkness.” (Watchtower, Sept. 15, 1910;
p. 298)
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
“I should blush to write of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures as I have, were it of human origin and I, apart from God, its author, but as I
was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in
divine metaphysics, I cannot be super-modest of
the Christian Science textbook.”
(Christian Science Journal, Jan. 1901)
Pope Pius XCatholic Church
“The very nature of the Bible ought to prove to any
thinking man the impossibility of its being the one safe method to find out
what the Saviour taught.” (Question Box, 1913 Ed. P. 67)
“Again, it has ever been practically impossible for
men, generally, to find out Christ from the Bible only”
(Question Box; p. 70)
WHICH PROMISE DID HE NOT KEEP?
God gave completeness in the Bible (2 Tim. 3:16-17)
God said He would preserve it (Matt. 24:35)
It was to last till the end of the world (Matt. 28:19-20)
Your Great Salvation…
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? Which having at the first been spoken through the Lord…”
(Heb. 2:3)