God Spake in Divers Manners Pt. 2 | Lesson 5

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explained that God has chosen to reveal Himself, because man cannot discover God by intellect, wisdom, or research alone. He distinguished between general revelation—what we can know of God through creation—and special revelation—what God has specifically spoken about Himself, His will, and His purpose in Christ. Using Psalm 19, he showed that creation testifies to a Creator, but only in a broad, indirect way, whereas the written Word (the law, testimonies, statutes, commandments, and judgments) reaches the inner man and converts the soul. He emphasized that over time God moved from creation’s witness to inscripturated revelation: the creation account, the law, the prophets, and all that He chose to write down so that His self-disclosure would endure through history.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, then traced how Hebrews 1 presents God speaking “at sundry times and in divers manners” in the past—through direct speech, visible manifestations (like the burning bush and Sinai), dreams, visions, miracles, and prophetic words that addressed both near and distant future events—culminating in His final and fullest revelation in His Son. Christ is the Word made flesh, the image of the invisible God, the One in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and all Scripture ultimately testifies of Him. In these last days, God has spoken by His Son, and that revelation has been inscripturated through the apostles and prophets, giving us a complete written Word that both reveals who God is and works effectually in the believer’s soul.