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1 comment  October 23rd, 2009

Worship Preparation | Hebrews 1:1-3: "How to Hear From God" by Jordan

Those who've been around Grace any length of time know that we're not the biggest on "how to" sermons, although we pray that every sermon is immensely practical. Kent Hughes said it well, "Christ is the most practical thing on earth."

We're decidedly a verse-by-verse kind of people. This week, however, will be sort of unique, though I pray completely expositional.

Because we want to be "doers of the Word, not hearers only," we'll be taking a dozen or so of our sermons throughout Hebrews to focus primarly on life application.

Because the opening verses of the Hebrews begins with the exclaimation, "God spoke," we will use this Sunday's sermon to focus on "How to Hear from God." There's nothing more important! As someone has said, "We need to hear from God more than He needs to hear from us." The question is, are you hearing from Him? If so, how? If not, why?

Einstein said, "I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details." If only Mr. Einstein would have peered into the pages of the Bible with a repentant heart and a desire to see the Lord Jesus Christ! Instead, he wrote:

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Albert Einstein, in a letter March 24, 1954; from Albert Einstein the Human Side, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981, p. 43.

Brilliant minds have often missed God's plain revelation of Himself. Others have humbled themselves under God's mighty hand and hallowed Him. Francis Schaffer, a genius in his own right, wrote a book about God that is encasuplated well in its title, "He is there and He is not silent."

Grab your bible. Look at the words. Pray with all your might for the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus to you. And confess that you are prone to twist, bend, manipulate to your own selfish advantage, and half-get what God is saying. Ask Him to protect you from such sin.

Ask God to cause you to delight as much in Jesus Christ through His Word as He delights in Jesus by His Word.

Objectively, every word of the Bible is God's voice. For the believer, though, the words are a means to knowing the God who has spoken!

Come Sunday with a ready heart for an applicational sermon on "How to Hear from God." Bring His voice with you (i.e. Your Bible).

John 3:30, Jordan

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