God Told Me...?

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Hebrews 1, 1, and 2 says, Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.

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But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also

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He created the world. That's something to keep in mind anytime someone says that God told them something.

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Everything we could ever want to hear God say has already been said in the Bible. God spoke through His prophets who gave us the

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Old Testament, and in these last days He has spoken through His Son, Jesus Christ, whose apostles gave us the

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New Testament. Now, the Bible is not just an old book of what God said in the past. When we read the book of Hebrews, the writer quotes the

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Old Testament as something God is saying to us right now. We read in Hebrews 4, 12 that the Word of God is living and active.

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God does speak to us. He speaks through the Scriptures. He does not speak to us through visions or inner voices.

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If a person says to you, God told me, what comes next should be a passage from the Bible. Otherwise, what they're claiming is that the subjective voice they heard in their head is equally as reliable and authoritative as the

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Bible. Proverbs 28, 26 says, whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool. Proverbs 3, 5 says, trust in the

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Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Psalm 119 says that God's Word is firmly fixed.

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It is by His Word we can test all other words. As Justin Peters has said, if you want to hear God speak to you, read the

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Bible. If you want to hear Him speak to you out loud, read the Bible out loud. We hear the very