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The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God.

But do the heavens declare everything there is to know about God?

For example, how would we know about God's plan for salvation from observing the stars?

Today, R.C. Sproul shows us that God has given us direct revelation of Himself through

sacred Scripture and that Jesus Christ is the fullness of His revelation.

In our last session in our study and overview of the whole scope of theology, we were looking

at the concept of revelation and I made a distinction between general and special revelation

and I also made a distinction, if you recall, between general revelation and natural theology.

Before I move to special revelation, I need to make another distinction that's very important

with respect to our understanding of general revelation and that is the distinction between

immediate and immediate general revelation. Now, these terms, immediate and immediate, have

to do with the function or use of something that stands between two points.

When we talk about immediate here, we're not using the term immediate like we do with

respect to time when I want something to happen right now. I will say it has to happen immediately.

That's not what we have in view here. But rather, again, if we think of God being transcendent

to us, and here we are on the earth and God is revealing Himself to us. And we were looking

at the last time at how God reveals Himself through nature and so that this revelation

comes to us through something else other than God, which is a medium. Or we speak today

of the media, which refers to specific kinds of communication. The newspaper is a medium

or a means through which announcements are made. Television is a medium through which,

again, events may be seen or viewed radios, a medium, and so on. And so what a medium is

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