The NXR Podcast - December 22, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - How Does God Speak？


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

136.63

Word count

604

Sentence count

31


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

When God speaks, he speaks infallibly, authoritatively, and infallibly. No error, no error, and it is always authoritative. So we cannot look to scripture and say that God sometimes "screams" and sometimes "whispered" when it comes from the mouth of God.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
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00:00:41.720 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44.520 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:47.360 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52.320 It's important that we understand that when God speaks,
00:00:55.480 Please, please don't misunderstand this.
00:01:00.300 When God speaks, he only speaks one way.
00:01:05.680 When God speaks, he speaks fully authoritatively and fully infallibly.
00:01:15.300 Meaning, God, when he speaks, it is always infallible without error.
00:01:22.740 and it is always authoritative god never suggests so we cannot look to scripture different portions
00:01:33.620 of scripture and say that that god is screaming here and whispering there you've heard me say this
00:01:41.280 let me explain what i mean by that when god speaks he speaks infallibly when god speaks he
00:01:47.920 speaks authoritatively. Meaning there is never any error, any fault on the part of God when he
00:01:55.520 speaks. And there's never the option of taking or leaving it. It's authoritative. So when we say
00:02:06.740 that there are portions of the scripture that scream and others that whisper, we're using that
00:02:12.480 language simply to describe the historic doctrine of the perspicuity of scripture saying not that
00:02:18.520 God sometimes screams and God sometimes whispers but because of the finitude and fallenness of man
00:02:26.440 we sometimes struggle to interpret some passages of scripture whereas other passages may be more
00:02:35.720 easily discerned does that make sense that's what we're saying we're not saying that that god
00:02:42.540 sometimes speaks authoritatively and sometimes doesn't and that god most of the time speaks
00:02:47.480 infallibly and then sometimes there's a little bit of error that would be blasphemy no god speaks
00:02:55.400 authoritatively and he speaks infallibly but we as we listen to god's word we who are fallen we
00:03:03.160 who are finite will struggle to discern exactly what is being said there are some things that
00:03:11.660 are abundantly clear in scripture by god's grace fortunately for us one of those things is the way
00:03:20.960 to salvation but there are other things that are less clear and so that might also be an example
00:03:27.480 of where we perhaps would counsel.
00:03:29.880 Not saying that God is counseling in his word.
00:03:34.240 God is commanding something in his word.
00:03:37.180 But because we are unsure of exactly what that command is
00:03:41.560 and perhaps the church, the larger church
00:03:44.580 throughout church history has disagreed,
00:03:48.580 been at odds with one another
00:03:50.220 over this particular command,
00:03:52.160 we're going to present it more charitably.
00:03:58.260 But that doesn't mean that God is whispering.
00:04:00.900 It means God said something that we don't quite get
00:04:03.640 because of our sin and because of our finitude.
00:04:07.060 And so we are whispering.
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