God Speaks through His Son

 August 18, 2024

Sunday

Many people struggle with reading the Bible. I believe they struggle because they have difficulty relating it to their lives. They have this difficulty because they have depended on others to tell them what it says rather than going before the Lord with the expectation that He will apply it to their lives. Without a relationship that sticks to us, the Bible can become like reading a physics book for someone who has no physics background. It can be like someone who has never heard opera going to an opera. Somehow, the medium needs to connect with the person.

So, how should people interpret the Bible? The Bible is a spiritual book and must connect to our spirits through the work of the Holy Spirit. It must be read in light of who and what Jesus has done. It must connect us to Him.

When read by the Holy Spirit in light of who Jesus is, the Bible will teach us what we are to do and how to do it, will rebuke us for what we have done wrong, will correct us for the things we shouldn't be doing and will train us in righteousness. This is all done for the glory of Jesus Christ. It is our identification with Him that has ushered in the Holy Spirit. It is the revelation of the Holy Spirit that brings a change in our lives when we read the Bible. And our relationship with our Lord grows as we encounter Him through God's Word, the Bible.

God has spoken through His Son to us. We may hear a message from a preacher but it is through His Son that we interpret what God has said. We may experience circumstances that reveal what God is doing through our relationship with His Son. We may be in deep prayer when we hear from God but again it will be in accordance with the message of the gospel that comes from God's Son.

So, while the Holy Spirit is the true interpreter of what we hear from God the medium that God delivers His messages are through His Son. Our relationship with Him enables the communication.

Some people claim that you can make the Bible say anything you want. Of course, that is true if you do not filter out what you want with His Son. The question isn't what would Jesus do but what will Jesus do with me? How will He join me in what He desires? How will the entrance of the Holy Spirit make me more like Jesus?

Yes, God speaks through His Son. We need to be listening.

Hebrews 1:1–2 (NASB 2020) ¹ God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, ² in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the world.