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God Has Spoken: Are You Listening?

"God, who at various times and in various 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"(Hebrews 1:1-2).

It is fascinating to listen to people tell how they believe God has spoken to them. Some say they have had a vision of God. Others, that God spoke to them in a dream, or in the wind, or by some other experience. Some believe God speaks to them when they pray (failing to grasp that prayer is how Christians speak to God, not how God speaks to Christians). Today's passage answers and rejects all these claims of divine communication. Notwithstanding the sincerity of the claim, they are mistaken. God speaks to us all in the very same way, and just as He has since the first century - "by His Son".God speaks to you and me today by the message Christ's apostles preached to the world. They spoke the word of God, and they wrote the word of God for us to hear. God has spoken the same message to us all. The New Testament of the Son is how God has spoken to us "in these last days."The vital question is whether or not we are listening to God by listening to His word. We bring judgment upon ourselves "in the last day"if we will not listen to and receive the words of Christ (John 12:48).                         ---------------God is speaking to us by His Son; are we listening?