GOD SPEAKS

ISAIAH 45:18-23                                                    

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

Over 2000 times in the Bible we are told that God spoke. God still speaks today. Primarily He speaks through His infallible, inerrant Word. When God speaks:

 

I. GOD SPEAKS AUTHORITATIVELY

1. His Word is True [Jn. 17:17, Titus 1:1-2]

- Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

- Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

2. His Word is Indestructible [Mt. 24:35]

- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

3. His Word is Powerful [Jer. 23:29, Heb. 4:12]

- Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

- For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

II. GOD SPEAKS EXPECTANTLY

1. God Expects Us to Respect His Word [Ps. 119:6, 15, 117]

-I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

-I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

-Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

2. God Expects Us to Read His Word

[Neh. 8:8, Mt. 19:4, 1 Th. 5:27]

- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

- And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female

- I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

 3. God Expects Us to React to His Word (Lk. 6:46, James 1:22]

-And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

-But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

 

III. GOD SPEAKS COMPASSIONATELY

1. He Speaks Tenderly [Matthew 11:28]

-Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

2. He speaks Rationally [Is. 1:18]

-Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

3. He Speaks Clearly [Jn. 3:16-18]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.