God Has Spoken — A Summary
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In a world that often feels silent and directionless, one of the most comforting truths about God is this: He is not distant, and He has not given us the silent treatment. He speaks — because He wants to be known.
The central argument of this sermon is that the Bible is not merely an impressive piece of ancient literature. It is God's deliberate, personal communication to humanity. He didn't leave us to guess at who He is, what He values, or whether He cares about us. He went to extraordinary lengths to make Himself known.
What makes this even more remarkable is the vehicle He chose. The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by more than 40 authors across fifteen centuries, in multiple languages, spanning wildly different cultures, life circumstances, and literary genres. By any reasonable expectation it should be a contradictory, incoherent mess. Instead it is a single, seamless, unified story — the story of a God who refuses to give up on His people, moving from creation to fall to redemption to restoration with breathtaking consistency.
God speaks through poetry and history, through prophecy and letter, through narrative and wisdom literature — as if He understood that different people in different seasons of life need to be reached in different ways, and He was determined to reach all of them.
This truth sits alongside the greatness and kindness of God to complete a picture of a God who is not only powerful enough to help us and good enough to want to, but present enough and communicative enough that we never have to navigate life wondering what He thinks or whether He's there.
He has spoken. The question is whether we are listening.
