October 23, God's final decisive word.

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, verses 1 and 2.

The last days begin with the coming of the Son into the world.

In these last days, he has spoken to us by his son.

We have been living in the last days since the days of Christ, that is,

the last days of history as we know it before the final and full establishment of the kingdom of God.

The point of the writer of Hebrews is this, the word that God spoke by his son

is the decisive word.

By the son's own design, that word has been captured for the ages

in the writings of the New Testament.

He explicitly made provision for this.

Lest every generation be left to itself to dream up the decisive word of God.

This word will not be followed in this age by any greater word or replacement word.

This is the word of God, the person of Jesus, the teaching of Jesus, the work of Jesus

captured by inspiration in the apostolic writings we call the New Testament.

When I complain that I don't hear the word of God,

when I feel a desire to hear the voice of God and get frustrated that he does not speak in ways

that I may crave, what am I really saying?

I am really saying that I have exhausted this final decisive word revealed to me so fully

and infallibly in the New Testament.

Have I really exhausted this word?

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