Unleashing God’s Word in Your Life, Part 3 – A Personal Word to You
Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life
Lesson 3—A Personal Word To You
- The supernatural wisdom and great prophecies in the Bible came from God, not from men.
- Natural Revelation (Rom1:20)
- Nature reveals: God’s power, the Godhead, and God’s wrath.
- Why can so many not see the Creator in nature? – Rom 1:21,22
- Nature also includes our own conscience (Rom 1:19).
- Special Revelation
- Takes up where creation and conscience leave off.
- Gives us specifics.
- Came progressively over time.
- Various means of special revelation—Theophany, prophets, casting of lots, the Urim and the Thummin, dreams, visions, and speaking audibly.
- Miracles
- An extraordinary event manifesting God’s intervention so that God may reveal Himself in a special way.
- God accompanied His Word with signs in order that people might know it was His Word.
- “God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power…” (Heb 1:1-3)