Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

Hi, Michael Beckio here from Prospectives. Today's podcast is part one of a two-part message

Graham gave titled How God uses Scripture featured on brilliant TV. It's a stunning revelation that

the word of God is not just written scriptures, but is also the person of Jesus, according to John 114.

In this short message, you'll learn what it looks like to encounter the living word, the potent prophecy of

scripture, and the power of the promises God has put in writing for you. Here's Graham.

This session is called the prophecy of scripture or how God uses scripture.

Remember that everything that God does is relational.

Behind every word, behind every promise, command, and action

is a passion to include us in the community of the Godhead.

So he's still primary purposes, let's make man in our image and by their

relationship with us they will become like us. So I love the fact that God knows who you are and he knows who you are

and he knows who you are becoming. And so he has a path laid out for us that's been predetermined in his own heart.

When he looks at you, he wants you to know how you are known in heaven. And when you know how you're known in heaven, then you get to know

how to walk on the earth, not only in relationship with God, but also in relationship with the people around you.

So he uses scripture in that particular context.

So he uses scripture with us personally so that we can understand who we are in him

and we understand how to be with the people that he set us amongst

and how we need to operate with the people that he has called us to.

From the very beginning then God had us in mind. He'd settled upon us as the focus of his love.

And if you want to look at scriptures like Ephesians 1, 3 to 6,

and verses 9 to 11, and Romans 8, 2930, they talk about the predetermined purpose of gut for us and how we can interact.

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