Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son. Hebrews 1:1,2
It says
that in times past God spoke "in many ways," not only in different
portions, but in different manners. It would take too long for us to go back to
the Old Testament to see all the manners in which God spoke. He spoke by a
thousand different means: sometimes by words and sometimes by acts. The manners
were indeed "diverse." However, the statement here is that at the end
He speaks in one way, one all-inclusive way, and that is in His Son. God's Son
is His one inclusive way of speaking at the end. On the one side, no one is
going to get anything from God apart from Jesus Christ. God will absolutely
refuse to speak other than in His Son. If you want to know what God wants to
say to you, you have to come to His Son. On the other side, in Jesus Christ we
have all that God ever wants to say....
Yes, we
have far more of God's speaking in His Son than we have yet come to understand.
We have nothing apart from Jesus Christ, and we need nothing apart
from Him. You can read everything that has ever been written on Christian
doctrine and still be the same man or woman. God's ways are very practical, and
He teaches us by experience. That experience is sometimes very difficult and is
called here "the training of sons." May the Lord Jesus just impress
our hearts again with these things! God is still speaking in His Son, and His
speaking is in order to get companions of His Son. Companions of this heavenly
calling and of Christ will go into the hard school and have to learn many hard
lessons, but in learning them they will come to understand how great is their
inheritance in the Lord Jesus.
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