God Speaks, Let’s Listen Myra Kahn Adams for Town Hall
Thanks for joining this study and a special welcome to “first-timers.” Your presence acknowledges that the Bible has supremely impacted and continues to impact the world through the power of words – the Word of God.
In His Word, God speaks to his people collectively, to individual leaders, and those he has chosen as future leaders. Studying the Word of the Lord can be inspiring, comforting, and uplifting every day, but especially during times of personal or national crisis. Conversely, His Word can bring warnings and harbingers of what is to come.
Since this is a “quick” Bible study, we will review only a handful of verses where God spoke in the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible. Next week we will study what He said in the New Testament.
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Let’s begin at the beginning of the Book of Genesis. God’s first direct quote is such a familiar cliché some of us need to be reminded that it originated from Him and not Hallmark gift stores:
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis 1:3).
Throughout the 50 chapters of Genesis, the phrase “God said, or God commanded” is prevalent and powerful – but none more than in Chapters 1 – 3. What follows are two verses that shaped humankind, and it is no coincidence that they appear consecutively in Chapter 2:
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” (Genesis 2:15-17).
Here is a sound piece of advice: Always adhere to the Lord’s commands. No excuses. And avoid shrewd, devious serpents who cast doubt on His directives. If only Adam had listened…
