God speaks. And this is grace. He doesn't have to, and we would never be able to know Him otherwise. Yet God reveals Himself to His creation both through His creation and through His Word. These testify to who He is, and they point us to the Living Word - Jesus, the full revelation of God to man.
God has graciously spoken. He has given us His clear expectations. But like our first parents, we view God's Word with suspicion and doubt, even though it is perfectly true, trustworthy, and authoritative - just like its Author. We question, belittle, and disobey the Word of the very One who created us. Dead in our sin, we cannot fix ourselves; we have fallen, and we need God's grace to lift us up.
Fallen as we are, dead in our sin, we can never fix ourselves; we can never stand before the holy God - that is, apart from God's grace in Jesus Christ.
God has graciously spoken. He has given us His clear expectations. But like our first parents, we view God's Word with suspicion and doubt, even though it is perfectly true, trustworthy, and authoritative - just like its Author. We question, belittle, and disobey the Word of the very One who created us. Dead in our sin, we cannot fix ourselves; we have fallen, and we need God's grace to lift us up.
Fallen as we are, dead in our sin, we can never fix ourselves; we can never stand before the holy God - that is, apart from God's grace in Jesus Christ.
