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NASB | Hebrews 1:1 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 1:1 God, having spoken to the fathers long ago in [the voices and writings of] the prophets in many separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the truth], and in many ways, |
Bible Question:
the verses you cited just further stregnthened my claim. Of course during the days of the apostles, God spoke through Jesus Christ, instead of some lowly human prophet. Of course Jesus Christ was the word of God in flesh, so why would God reveal anything to anyone except to Him in the days He walked among the apostles. And that same Jesus said it was important for Him to go to The Father so He could send back the comforter, who would come to teach believers and reveal God to them. Read the following JOhn 14: 26-27 " But the Helper, The HOly Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your rememberance all that I said to you". Joel 2:28 I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams... before the glorius day of the Lord shall come... ephesians 1:17-that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of HIm'. Again somewhere it is written' They shall be taught of God'. Throw away your tired notions of holiness. The word of God is true as it says, that it is the Holy Spirit that reveals God to men. From your reaction, you have never experienced God so truly, and your growth is from the labors and discernment of your own intellect. YOu would not doubt what I am saying is true, if you have the Spirit of God in you. I am not an idiot to seek any kind of vain glory. The reason I am describing this experience is because it is absolute truthful experience of the word of God. I am giving that evidence to confirm the word of God, to lead people to a stronger faith in God, away from an understanding that is without power. People believe in God, having a form of holiness, but deny the power thereof. That sounds like you. Too bad for you, you have not had these wonderful of experiences of God. I am not interested in getting you to believe anything about me, only about the word of God which says His Holy Spirit will reveal Him to believers, and to have a stronger faith in the power of the word of God, not just an intellectual awareness. I don't care if you believe me or not, God is really my witness of these experiences. |
Bible Answer: Dear Amadeuse, "In these last days (God) has spoken to us in His Son...and HE (Christ) is the radiance of His glory and the EXACT representation of His (God's nature." Yes, the Holy Spirit will lead us into ALL truth, and the focal point is that Jesus Christ is the TRUTH. Christ alone is the EXACT representation of God and His nature and one of the things that the Holy Spirit does is to reveal Christ through the illumination of God's Word. Brother, your post is replete with the exaltation of 'experience' - your experiences. I must, in love, caution you. Everyone's 'experiences' are different. And experiences can lead us astray from the truth. We must subject our experiences to the truth of God's Word. We accept Christ by FAITH, we walk in Him by FAITH. "As you have accepted Christ, so walk IN HIM." Faith is accepting what God says as true, whether our experiences verify it or not. Brother, people do not need to have a 'stronger faith.' The amount or capacity of faith is not the issue. The OBJECT of faith is the issue. Everyone has faith in someone or something. Faith doesn't save. Faith IN Christ saves. CHRIST is the object of the Christian faith. If you are truly 'experiencing' God, great. But I urge you to submit those experiences to the Word to discern if they are valid or not. Also, it may not be intentional, but your post is coming across as one-upmanship i.e. 'I have more of God than you do.' If you, brother, truly have the Spirit of God in you, Christ never bragged about Himself. Christ said, "What I say, the FATHER has told Me to say. The works I do, the FATHER has told Me to do. I don't do anything or say anything UNLESS the FATHER tells Me to." God the Father was His total source while Christ was here on earth. And, now that He is seated at the right hand of God, the Holy Spirit reveals Christ as our total source. Frankly, I don't believe that Christ would say what you have said in the way you have said it. There is ONE body of Christ, the church, and there is ONE Holy Spirit. And scripture says that if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you don't belong to Christ. The primary evidence of that is the outworking of love for Christ's body, other believers. You can't say that you love the head, Christ, and then disdain His body, we the church. Christ said that we should love God first and then each other as God loves us. We can't do this apart from His enablement. God STILL speaks through Jesus Christ. Christ IS the Word of God, not WAS. Look at the example laid before us in scripture. Christ, while on earth, did not glorify Himself or His 'experiences.' He IS God incarnate, yet He didn't brag about having 'wonderful experiences' from God that no one else had. And Paul exhibited the same attitude. Paul was caught up to heaven and had a revelation directly from Christ. He could have bragged about it. But he didn't. He said, "If I'm gonna boast about anything, it will be Jesus Christ and what He has done. I, Paul, am nothing." Of course, he was also given a thorn in the flesh to keep him humble. Have you received THAT revelation? In Christ, Bill Mc |