God Has Spoken
“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…” (Hebrews 1:2)
We could not know God were it not that He was pleased to reveal Himself. From eternity He has always existed in perfect harmony within Himself. Long before there was the creation of the world, the Father, Son and Spirit shared a perfect fellowship with One Another that continues forever.
God did not create the world and mankind because of any lack within Himself. Rather, it was that He might fulfill what He had eternally purposed. That is to honor and glorify His Son as the Savior and Redeemer of sinners, in choosing out an elect number that He should save and Himself came in the fulness of the time to save, Galatians 4:4.
It was God Himself Who broke the silence of eternity at creation. God no longer spoke within Himself. The first spoken Words of God are recorded in Genesis 1:3, “And God said, Let there be light…” From John 1:3 we learn that from the beginning of time it was through His Son that God spoke. It has always been God the Father’s purpose to glorify His Son and do His work through Him, whether in creation, providence, salvation or judgment. To this end, our LORD Jesus prayed in the garden on the eve of His death, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (John 17:5)
Throughout the inspired Word of God, we see how God has spoken through and continues to speak through creation, Psalm 19:1-3, through history, Isaiah 63:11-14, through the declared Word of His prophets and apostles, Hebrews 1:1, through the written inspired Word, 2 Timothy 3:16, and through the conscience Proverbs 20:27. Yet, the supreme reason for God speaking at all is the glory of His Son, Hebrews 1:2-3. God does not need to speak. How He has revealed Himself and to whom is according to His sovereign purpose and will. If there are those in whom He has revealed His Son in Truth, that is solely because of His Grace in the LORD Jesus alone.
In these last days since the coming of Christ into this world, we find the greatest revelation of God in His Son, come in the flesh. Nothing can compare to the God-Man in Whom we see all the power, wisdom, and goodness of God the Father, John 14:7, in Whom the fulness of the Godhead dwells. In Him we see the glory of the person and office of Christ as Redeemer and Savior and the glory of God’s Grace. To that end He suffered and died, that God might be just to justify those sinners that God purposed to save from all eternity. We never can be thankful enough that God has in so many ways and with such increasing clearness, spoken to us fallen sinners concerning salvation. That He should by Himself cleanse us from our sins is a wonder of love beyond our utmost powers of admiration, gratitude, and praise.
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