THE SCRIPTURES BY INSPIRATION
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
Let us read every Scripture mentioned above. First note Hebrews 1:1 and 2 - “God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.”
Thus we see how the Scriptures were given on the installment plan from the first line, written by Moses, until Christ Himself said what He did in Matthew 13:16 and 17 and John 16:12 and 13: “But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”
“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: and He will shew you things to come.”
Some years thereafter Christ spoke in a housetop vision to Peter authorizing Peter to preach to Cornelius. (Acts 11:1 to 9). Then note what the twelve apostles did: “When they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.” (Acts 11:18).
Then note Paul’s testimony in Acts 26:16: Christ said, “I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.”
Then Paul, in Galatians 1:11 and 12, told how his “grace” gospel was received from Christ in heaven. Then he spoke of many revelations from Christ (I Corinthians 15:8 - II Corinthians 12:1 to 12).
Then note in II Corinthians 13:3 that Christ spoke in Paul as He lived in Paul. (Galatians 2:20).
Years after God spoke to Adam He spoke to Noah (Genesis 7:1 - 9:17). Years later He spoke to Abraham (Genesis 13:14 - Genesis 17:9). More than 400 years later God spoke some entirely new truth to Moses. Many times in the Bible is the statement, “God said unto Moses.” Then centuries later God spoke unto Solomon and David, to Elijah and Elisha, to Isaiah and Jeremiah, and many others. Then Israel went to Babylon and “the times of the Gentiles,” politically, began. And God told Daniel many things that He had never told any other of His servants.
Several hundred years later God sent His Son Who said, “I have not spoken of Myself; but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me what I should say.” (John 12:49). Years after Christ went back to heaven, He spoke some wonderful messages to Gentiles, through the apostle Paul.
While Christ was on earth, sent only to Israel, He was not speaking in the dispensation of the grace of God to members of the Body of Christ, but He was ministering under the law to Israel, speaking to saved and unsaved Jews. Some of these - but not all - spiritual truths, proclaimed by Christ on earth were to apply to God’s people both before and after Calvary.
This is one of the most difficult problems in rightly dividing the Word of truth, for Christians want to be sure not to eliminate from God’s grace program and message one word in The Four Gospels that is compatible with this “grace” message, and not to bring over one thing that will frustrate the grace of God or pervert the grace gospel. (Galatians 1:8 to 12 and Galatians 2:21).
In Acts 26:16 we learn how Paul received revelation on the installment plan until finally he received that which competed the Word of God, the revelation of the mystery. (Colossians 1:24 to 26). Since God completed His Scriptures, and the last Book was written, spiritually speaking, anything that is new is not true, and anything that is true is not new.
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