Messages From God
PLEASE CHECK YOUR BIBLE---YOU HAVE MESSAGES FROM GOD!
When reading your Bible, it is very important that you accept the words written as being the words of God. From the very first verse in the Bible, we can understand that it is a book about God. (Gen 1:1 In the beginning God. NKJV) It is also interesting, beginning with the first verse of Genesis, that this book about God was written in a very conversational style. As you are reading, please note the frequency of the phrase, “God said “, followed by quotations. It is as though God intended the readers to be receiving, not what someone said God said. but, what God actually said. A very important response, when we read, “God said,” is to take the message very seriously. When God speaks, we had better pay attention.
The Bible is not like any other book you will read. From Genesis through Revelation, we are given many written messages that were originally spoken by God.
Begin with Gen 1;3 Then God said, "Let there be light" and End with Rev 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly."
God's first conversation was with Adam and Eve. They didn't take his words seriously, and you know what happened to them. Most of God's conversations were to tell people what they were to do or to say. It has always been God's desire that man understand what is expected of him.
There seems to be more authority behind what is written when it is structured as “God said...” It is also more personal when written as God speaking to a special person. Please notice the following:
Gen 3:9-11 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said
Gen 6:13 And God said to Noah,
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram:
Ex 3:4 God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!"
The messages of the Old Testament are different from the messages from the New Testament, but they are all messages from God.
Heb 1:1-2 God, ... spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,” Moses was one of those prophets. The first Book written by Moses was Genesis.
Acts 3:22-2422 For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me ...23 every soul who will not hear that Prophet ..”(Jesus).
The New Testament is also very conversational in style. The writers did not say what they thought Jesus said, they simply quoted him. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all present direct quotations from Jesus, not what they said He said.
Matt 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto him,
Mark 1:14 Jesus came...preaching the gospel ...15 and saying, "
Luke 2:49 And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me?
John 1:38 Jesus..., said to them,
The apostle Paul wrote the greatest, complement to the Thessalonians about their response to his preaching; 1 Thess 2:13-1413 “when you received the word of God which you heard from us,... not as the word of men, ... as it is in truth, the word of God
Do you respond to God's messages in the Bible as the Thessalonians did? Our generation is blessed with an abundance of Bibles. Believers and unbelievers alike receive the same messages. Believers read the messages and obey. Unbelievers can read the messages and become believers. When God speaks everyone must take Him seriously and respond with obedience or suffer the consequences.
John 5:28-29 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
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Wooddale Church of Christ Daily Devo's
Daily Devotional by Wayne Dinkins
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