My God Speaks, Does Yours

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My God Speaks, Does Yours?
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Psalm 1153-8 (NASB95)

• But our God is in the heavens He does whatever
  He pleases.
• Their idols are silver and gold, The work of
  mans hands.
• They have mouths, but they cannot speak
• They have eyes, but they cannot see
• They have ears, but they cannot hear

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Psalm 1153-8 (NASB95)

• They have noses, but they cannot smell
• They have hands, but they cannot feel
• They have feet, but they cannot walk
• They cannot make a sound with their throat.
• Those who make them will become like them,
  Everyone who trusts in them.

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Our God Speaks, Does Yours

• How has he spoken in the past?
• What does it look like in 2006?
• How is it relevant to me and the church?

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How has He spoken in the past?

• The word of God!

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• God speaks creation into existence

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Gen. 1 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29
• and God said

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Romans 120 (NASB95)
• For since the creation of the world His invisible
  attributes, His eternal power and divine nature,
  have been clearly seen, being understood through
  what has been made, so that they are without
  excuse.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• God speaks creation into existence
• God speaks to individuals

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Adam and Eve
• Gods first words to man

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Genesis 128 (NASB95)
• God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and
  fill the earth, and subdue it and rule over the
  fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and
  over every living thing that moves on the earth.
  

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Genesis 128 (The Message)
• God blessed them Prosper! Reproduce! Fill
  Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in
  the sea and birds in the air, for every living
  thing that moves on the face of Earth.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Adam and Eve
• NOAH

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Adam and Eve
• NOAH
• Abraham

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Adam and Eve
• NOAH
• Abraham
• David

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men
• John the Baptist

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men
• John the Baptist
• Jesus This is my beloved Son

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men
• John the Baptist
• Jesus This is my beloved Son
• The Disciples

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men
• John the Baptist
• Jesus This is my beloved Son
• The Disciples
• Paul

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joseph Mary, Zachariah, the Wise men
• John the Baptist
• Jesus This is my beloved Son
• The Disciples
• Paul
• John Revelation 2220 (NASB95)

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Revelation 2220 (NASB95)
• He who testifies to these things says, Yes, I am
  coming quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• God speaks creation into existence
• God speaks to individuals
• God speaks in a new way (inspires people to write)

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• Written Word of God

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How has He spoken in the past?

• 2 Peter 120-21 (NASB95)
• But know this first of all, that no prophecy of
  Scripture is a matter of ones own
  interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
  an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy
  Spirit spoke from God.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• 2 Timothy 316 (NASB95)
• All Scripture is inspired(God breathed) by God

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Deuteronomy 64-7 (NASB95)
• Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is
  one! You shall love the Lord your God with all
  your heart and with all your soul and with all
  your might. These words, which I am commanding
  you today, shall be on your heart. You shall
  teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk
  of them when you sit in your house and when you
  walk by the way and when you lie down and when
  you rise up.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Joshua 18-9 (NASB95)
• This book of the law shall not depart from your
  mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and
  night, so that you may be careful to do according
  to all that is written in it for then you will
  make your way prosperous, and then you will have
  success.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• Written Word of God

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• Written Word of God
• Incarnate Word of God
• Incarnate Word of God-in the flesh- Jesus- THEY
  NOW SEE HIS WORD

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How has He spoken in the past?

• John 11-3, 14 (NASB95)
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God. He was in the
  beginning with God. All things came into being
  through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into
  being that has come into being. And the Word
  became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His
  glory, glory as of the only begotten from the
  Father, full of grace and truth.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• Biblical Foundations
• Spoken Word of God
• Written Word of God
• Incarnate Word of God
• NOW Word of God

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How has He spoken in the past?

• John 1613 (NASB95)
• But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will
  guide you into all the truth for He will not
  speak on His own initiative, but whatever He
  hears, He will speak and He will disclose to you
  what is to come.

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How has He spoken in the past?

• John 1027 (NASB95)
• My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and
  they follow Me

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What is Prophecy?

• God speaking through man to man
• It is God communicating to man in order for Man
  to communicate with others what God said

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What is Prophecy?

• Old Testament Prophets
• Gods Mouthpiece

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What is Prophecy?

• Two Aspects of Prophecy
• Foretelling
• Forth Telling

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What is Prophecy?

• Examples of Foretelling
• Micah 52
• Isaiah 714

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What is Prophecy?

• Examples of Forth Telling
• Revealing sins Isaiah 511-23
• Call to repentance Jeremiah 41-2
• Revealing judgment Ezekiel 55-8
• Giving instruction Isaiah 5010,11
• Revealing God's ways Isaiah 558-13

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What is Prophecy?

• New Testament Prophets
• One who under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
  speaks forth a message from God, that he has
  received by inspiration.

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What is Prophecy?

• Four types of NT prophecy
• Gift of Prophecy
• Manifestation of Prophecy
• Equipping Gift of Prophecy
• Prophecy of Scripture

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What is Prophecy?

• Gift of Prophecy
• The speaking forth of a message from God that has
  been received by inspiration. The declaring of
  the heart throb of God to His people. The
  communication of God with His people the things
  He wants them to know.

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What is Prophecy?

• Manifestation of Prophecy
• The ability, given at various times to a
  believer, which enables him to exhort, encourage
  comfort

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What is Prophecy?

• Equipping Gift of Prophecy
• The ability that God gives to people to equip
  others in the prophetic.

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What is Prophecy?

• Prophecy of Scripture
• Totally inerrant and infallible
• No longer given Rev. 22 18-19
• All other prophecy judged by the prophecy
• Prophecy without error
• Highest and purest revelation to man

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What does Prophecy look like in 2006?

• How is it relevant to me and the church?