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NASB | Psalm 95:10 "For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 95:10 "For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation, And I said, 'They are a people who err in their heart, And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.' |
Subject: Love God, His word, any difference? |
Bible Note: This is a good illustration, Meusing, except the author's book did not reveal all that his wife came to know of him. The Author of our Book has told us ALL He wants us to know of Him (and it's quite a lot!), and there is no more to learn of Him apart from it. So, again, to the extent we know the word of God, to that extent we know God, because the Bible is God's revelation of Himself. But some may say, "But Christ is the highest revelation of God!" Yes, that's true. Hebrews 1 says, "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power." But our only reliable source of the knowledge of Christ is his word alone by which the Spirit of God reveals Him to us. Matt 11:27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. The only means to the knowledge of God is through His Son. The only means to the Son is by the Spirit working through and with the word of God. So it is not that "we know the Author and we Know more about the Author through His word," as if there were another source of knowledge besides the Bible. There isn't. We know about the Author ONLY through His word which the Spirit of God uses to illuminates us, and we know Him MORE only through that same word. So, to love God is no different than loving His word wherein alone He reveals Himself by the Spirit through Christ our Savior. |