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Our God is a speaking God—Heb. 1:1-2a:
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God is a mystery, but this mystery has been revealed by God's speaking—vv. 1-2a:
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Without the divine speaking, God would remain forever unknowable—Luke 1:70; Acts 3:21.
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Our God is the revealed God because He has revealed Himself in His speaking—Heb. 1:1-2a.
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Every created thing came out of the word of God—Gen. 1:3; John 1:3:
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The old creation—the whole universe—came into being by God's speaking—Gen. 1:3, 6-7; Psa. 33:9; Rom. 4:17; Heb. 11:3.
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The new creation was brought into being by the entire God speaking as the Word—John 1:1, 3; 5:24.
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The speaking God continues to do all things through His speaking—Rom. 4:17.
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The living God imparts and infuses Himself into us by speaking—2 Tim. 3:16-17:
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When God speaks, the light shines, bringing us understanding, vision, wisdom, and utterance—Psa. 119:105, 130.
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When God speaks, life is imparted, and this life includes all the divine attributes and human virtues of Christ—John 6:63; 1:1, 4.
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When God speaks, power is transmitted, and this is the growing and producing power of life—Mark 4:14, 26.
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In the Old Testament, God spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, in men borne by the Spirit—Heb. 1:1; 2 Pet. 1:21.
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In the New Testament, God speaks in the Son, in the person of the Son—Heb. 1:2a:
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This person was first an individual and then became corporate—Matt. 17:5; Acts 9:4; 1 Cor. 12:12.
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God today speaks in a person, and this person has increased to be a corporate person, including all the apostles and all the members of this person's Body—14:4b, 31.
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The believers are all a part of the corporate Son; God is still speaking in the Son—Heb. 1:2a.
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The speaking God desires to have a speaking people—Acts 4:31; 6:7; 12:24; 19:20; Col. 4:3; 2 Tim. 4:2; Rev. 1:2, 9.
Morning Nourishment
Heb. 1:1-2 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe.God is mysterious. He is altogether a mystery. But this mystery has been revealed by God's speaking. Without the divine speaking, God would remain forever unknowable. But our God no longer is mysterious. He is not a mystery, but a story….We can tell the story of God. The story of God is a matter of continual speaking; it is a speaking history.
The book of Hebrews begins with God speaking…. God has spoken! Praise Him! It is absolutely not a small thing that God has spoken. Without speaking God is mysterious. But He has revealed Himself in His speaking. He is no longer mysterious. Now He is the revealed God. (Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 31,17)
Today's Reading
God created the universe and continues to do all things through His speaking. Therefore, everyone who has been saved and who has His life should learn to speak for Him and to speak His word.The greatest mystery in the universe is God. Where is this mystery opened and revealed to man? This mystery is opened and revealed to us in His Word. Hebrews 1 tells us that our God is a speaking God (vv. 1-2). The speaking of the human race came from His creation. He is a speaking God, and He is also the Word. God's desire…is that man speak for Him. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 5,”Speaking for God,” p. 201)
Hebrews 1:1-2 says that God in ancient times, in the Old Testament times, spoke through the prophets, but now in the New Testament times, God speaks in Christ. In the entire New Testament age, not only in the three and a half years of Jesus Christ's earthly life, God speaks in the person of the Son. Today we have to realize that the Son has been made a corporate One. We the believers of His Son have all become the parts of this corporate One, a corporate Son. Therefore, God is still speaking through the Son, that is, through the church. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 3,”The Divine Speaking,” p. 308)
We have a speaking God, and this speaking God desires to have a speaking people. God desires to speak, and His Spirit is waiting for us to speak. If all the millions of Christians in the United States would speak for God and Christ every day, the whole earth would be overturned. However, … [the] habit of Christians [is] to go to church simply to listen to one speaker. We all need to rise up and overthrow this custom.
When we come to the church meetings, we must speak. There is more than one way to speak. Shouting, singing, praising, and praying are all different kinds of speaking….We should not begin the meeting in the meeting hall but in our dining room, living room, or bedroom. When we are preparing to come to the meeting, we should begin to sing, and on the way to the meeting, we should come singing, praising, praying, and shouting. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2,”The Practice of Prophesying,” pp. 366-367)
If you speak when you come to the meeting, you will be filled up….Enjoy yourself by speaking. God spoke in His old creation, and He spoke in His new creation. Now it is our turn to speak in our daily life, in our ministry, in the meetings, in the Holy Spirit, by the spirit of faith, and with the word of Christ. We have the Holy Spirit in whom we can speak, we have the spirit of faith by which we can speak, and we have the word of Christ, which is God with the Spirit, which is life, with which we can speak. We have something that we can speak in, speak by, and speak with. We all can speak in the Holy Spirit, by the spirit of faith, and with the word of Christ. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 3,”The Divine Speaking,” p. 311)
Further Reading: Life-study of Hebrews, msgs. 2-3; Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msg. 63; Life-study of Ephesians, msgs. 39, 84; CWWL, 1990, vol. 2,”The Practice of Prophesying,” ch. 4; CWWL, 1985, vol. 5,”Speaking for God,” ch. 3; CWWL, 1985, vol. 3,”The Divine Speaking,” chs. 1-4