Long ago, at many times and in many
ways, God spoke to our fathers by
the prophets, but in these last days
He has spoken to us by His Son.
(Hebrews 1:1,2 ESV)/
It says that in times past God spoke "in
many ways," not only in
different portions, but in different
manners. It would take too long
for us to go back to the Old Testament
to see all the manners in which
God spoke. He spoke by a thousand
different means: sometimes by words
and sometimes by acts. The manners
were indeed "diverse." However, the
statement here is that at the end He
speaks in one way, one
all-inclusive way, and that is in His Son.
God's Son is His one
inclusive way of speaking at the end.
On the one side, no one is going
to get anything from God apart from
Jesus Christ. God will absolutely
refuse to speak other than in His Son.
If you want to know what God
wants to say to you, you have to come
to His Son. On the other side,
in Jesus Christ we have all that God
ever wants to say....
Yes, we have far more of God's
speaking in His Son than we have yet
come to understand. We have nothing
apart from Jesus Christ, and we
/need /nothing apart from* *Him.
You can read everything that has ever
been written on Christian doctrine
and still be the same man or woman.
God's ways are very practical, and He
teaches us by experience. That
experience is sometimes very difficult
and is called here "the
training of sons." May the Lord Jesus
just impress our hearts again
with these things! God is still speaking
in His Son, and His speaking
is in order to get companions of His
Son. Companions of this heavenly
calling and of Christ will go into the
hard school and have to learn
many hard lessons, but in learning
them they will come to understand
how great is their inheritance in the
Lord Jesus.