God is not like you and me. His ways are not like our ways. His thoughts are not like our thoughts.

Dr. Tony Evans says getting to know God starts with letting him speak through Scripture.

If you're going to understand God, he must explain himself. Revelation is simply God making himself known.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

We all have questions about life, but some answers can only come from a heavenly source. Today, Dr. Evans helps us see how

God uses Scripture to reveal his thoughts, his will, and his ways. Let's join him as he explains

why understanding God has to begin with receiving what he's chosen to make known.

Revelation is simply God making himself known.

Why do we need revelation?

Let's go back to our favorite passage, Isaiah 55, beginning in verse 8, for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways declares the Lord verse 9

for as the heavens are higher than the earth. So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Revelation is important because God is totally different than us.

And because of this huge gap between us and God, the infinite versus

the finite, if you're going to understand God, he must explain himself. Because he is the

unfigureoutable God.

There is another reason why God must reveal himself.

We cannot figure him out on our own.

And that is because Ephesians 418 says our understanding has been darkened by sin.

So whatever abilities we have have been contaminated by our sin.

And since sin acts as a blinder, it limits spiritual perceptivity or the ability to understand.

So even what you could understand has been

thwarted by our inability to see clearly because of the stigma of sin that has infected and

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