Where In The Bible Will I Find:

How God Reveals His Will To Us Today?

Over the past several years we have heard much about some one in some area seeing the face of Jesus being illuminated on some object (who on earth knows what Jesus looks like?), one claiming to have seen a 900 foot tall Jesus, and others claiming that the Lord speaks to them directly. Of course, all these are false and foreign to the teaching of God's Word.

God plainly says through His written Word, "God, who at various times and in different 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 also He made the worlds" (Heb. 1:1-2 NKJV).

During the old Mosaic law (now void), God spoke directly to the head of families or through the prophets, but in the new (Christian) law He speaks to us through His Son. Jesus, while on earth, spoke and taught the Word of God for about three years, selecting the apostles who would deliver His Word to all mankind, "...Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved...For, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth..." (Mark 16:15-16; Rom. 1:16).

Further, Jesus assured them that they would speak only what He had delivered to them for the Holy Spirit Himself would guide them into all truth (John 14:26; 16:13). The apostles went, spoke and wrote the things spoken to them by the Lord who assured them that, "He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me" (Luke 10:16). Just as the Lord promised, the Holy Spirit came and guided the apostles in all their speaking (Acts 2:1-4), and all the writing of the New Testament (II Tim. 3:16-17).

Listen to Paul, "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual" (I Cor. 2:11-13).

Paul is saying: (1) Only the Spirit of God knows the things of God. (2) The apostles were given the Spirit of God to enable them to reveal the things of God, and (3) The apostles revealed the things of God in "WORDS" given by the Holy Spirit. And so Paul was able to write, "...ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God..." (I Thess. 2:13). God speaks directly to NO ONE today. He speaks ONLY through his WRITTEN WORD and we are warned not to depart from it (II John 9), or listen to any other (Gal. 1:8-9).