God’s Final, Decisive Word

[ronscarpa]

God’s Final, Decisive Word

Our WORD for Friday, 24 October 2014

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)

The last days begin with the coming of the Son into the world. We have been living in the last days since the days of Christ — that is, the last days of history as we know it before the final and full establishment of the kingdom of God.

The point for the writer of Hebrews is this: The Word that God spoke by his Son is the decisive Word. It will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word. This is the Word of God — the person of Jesus, the teaching of Jesus, and the work of Jesus.

When I complain that I don't hear the Word of God, when I feel a desire to hear the voice of God, and get frustrated that He does not speak in ways that I may crave, what am I really saying? Am I really saying that I have exhausted this final decisive Word revealed to me so fully in the New Testament? Have I really exhausted this Word? Has it become so much a part of me that it has shaped my very being and given me life and guidance?

Or have I treated it lightly — skimmed it like a newspaper, dipped in like a taste-tester—and then decided I wanted something different, something more? This is what I fear I am guilty of more than I wish to admit.

God is calling us to hear His final, decisive Word — to meditate on it and study it and memorize it and linger over it and soak in it until it saturates us to the center of our being.

 

In Philippians 3:8  the apostle Paul writes: "What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ."  ... Be blessed everyone & have a great weekend...!  RON

[MyLadiesDaddy]

You really have a calling brother.

This is so relevant in my life today, thanks.

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

another day closer

[DinarDavo]

Excellent and amen.

[Nadita]

Yep.. He has the final words... the question is are we listening..? He is talking to us everyday

 

Have a blessed weekend everyone

[tankdude]

Than you Ron.  Great piece....truly inspired.

[Nelg]

Thus the admonish to preachers, "preach the word."  

Thanks Ron.  Good words for a world gone mad with listening to everything but the Word of God.

[Fly]

Very good

 

You may also like knowing God’s Kingdom (government or rulership) was clearly fully established already in heaven. So what’s actually being implied is; before the final and full establishment of the kingdom of God here on earth!

(Revelation 12:7-12) – And war broke out in heaven: Mi′cha·el (Jesus' heavenly name) and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven say:

“Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God! And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death. On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”

[akirk]

Thank you for your uplifting posts.  So many times we think God is not talking to us is because we don't hear what we want. 

Listen for what God has for yor and see how much better your life will be.

Blessing to all

[Heavyduty053]

Great words Ron...thanks we all need them