Day 3: God’s Inspired Word

His Inspired Word manifests His redemptive plan.

God’s Inspired Word is His special revelation communicated directly to humans.

The relationship of the Inspired Word and the Infinite Word is reciprocal, each building on the other:

• The Infinite Word reveals the knowledge of the glory of God.
• The Inspired Word manifests God’s unique plan of redemption in history.

The more we appreciate the general revelation of God—the world that we can see and know with our senses—the more we begin to apprehend the glory of the One who made it. At the same time, the more we know the Inspired Word, the more we understand how the Infinite Word has reached down into our lives.

The book of Hebrews tells us that this special revelation has been made manifest in multiple agencies throughout time and in the Hebrew Bible:

“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much better than the angels…” (Hebrews 1:1–4).

The Inspired Word includes the Bible and the events it records—miracles, signs and wonders, prophetic oracles, dreams and visions, and more.

God’s Word describes the fallen state of man, our need for redemption from sin and death, and the ways He set into motion His plan to save us. The author of Hebrews adds that the special revelation of the Inspired Word ultimately points to and culminates in the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ the Messiah—the most decisive revelation of the Father.

If Jesus is the most decisive conveyance of the Inspired Word of God, then everything in Scripture—the prophets, the Psalms, the history—points to Jesus as the final manifestation of God’s special revelation.

The more we integrate the Inspired Word into our lives through praying, reading, and personal response, the more we will be pointed toward Jesus.

Day 3 Scripture Readings:

Luke 24:27
Hebrews 1:1–4, 12