Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss Pastor Jonah's sermon from Hebrews 1:1 in the series Breaking The Silence.
Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gilles recap and discuss Pastor Jonah's sermon from Hebrews 1:1 in the series Breaking The Silence.
Lindsey: Welcome to the Midweek Checkup. My name is Lindsey Blair, and I’m joined by Bobby Gilles for a new season premiere of The Midweek Checkup.
Bobby: We’ve been off all summer, just staring at this camera, waiting for you to come back.
Lindsey: And now you’re here. You’re really here. And Pastor Jonah was back this Sunday too, to launch a brand new series from the book of Hebrews called Breaking The Silence: Hearing the Voice of God.
Bobby: Pastor Jonah began by saying nothing brings despair, discouragement, or fear quite the same way as the silence of God does.
Or should we say apparent silence? When God seems to go silent, our hearts go cold, and our spirits grow faint. What if the problem is not God’s silence, but our ability, our willingness, to listen? The book of Hebrews shows us that God speaks in ways that we can understand.
Lindsey: God speaks personally, diversely, and repeatedly.
By personally, we mean he speaks to us so we can know him.
Diversely means God speaks in many ways so we won’t miss his love.
Repeatedly means God happily repeats himself so we won’t forget his love.
God spoke and created life, and the crescendo of creation is a creature capable of hearing and understanding the words of God. God did not have to do this!
Bobby: And God HAPPILY REPEATS himself so you will not miss it. But he doesn’t just say the same thing the same way over and over. Our passage says, “Long ago God Spoke many times in many ways to our ancestors.”
Lindsey: God spoke human words to human beings who shared them with all people And all of that is preserved for us in the scriptures. It’s right here for us, one of the reasons we, as a church, LOVE the Bible. It’s God’s personal, diverse, repeated words preserved for us.
Bobby: If you receive that, a whole world of curiosity and possibility will open to you. A world where God is actually knowable, personal. We are going to spend weeks learning how we do that, how to recognize the voice of God, hearing some of the most beautiful, powerful truths in human history.
Lindsey: But the diversity of God’s speech also meant it was fragmentary. It’s hard to figure out how it all fits together. Come back next week, and we’ll see how God definitively and ultimately broke the silence, removing any doubt about if he speaks, how he speaks, or why he speaks.
Bobby: Yes, this Sunday we’ll continue Breaking The Silence, diving into the second verse of Hebrews. And in Bible Fellowship we’ll discuss Jeremiah 18, where God famously describes his relationship with his creation as a potter to clay. Are you ready for that?
Lindsey: I’m ready.
Bobby: Join us, and bring a friend.