- John 15:14-15
Follow God’s teachings and you will be a friend of Christ and not a servant. God teaches us not only through words, but also through deeds. The deeds are examples of his goodness. These good deeds give us Faith and help us to believe in His Word.
God communicates ‘the Word’ to us in many different ways. As I said in the previous paragraph, He is the mediator of revelation even if it through another person. Many Prophets have brought the Word of God to us. God appoints these ‘Prophets’. First, God manifested himself to our first parents. God told them how he would punish them for failing to obey him.
“15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Genesis 3:15
In Romans 2:6-7 God tells us how he will treat us all different, according to what we have done. He also tells us how he will reward those of us who follow him and seek “glory, honour and immortality.” If we live, searching for Salvation, eternal life will be ours.
“6God "will give to each person according to what he has done." 7To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honour and immortality, he will give eternal life.”
- Romans 2:6-7
God then appointed Abraham to deliver the Word to us. Then he communicated with us through the Patriarchs and after them, through Moses and the prophets. Gods message was to believe in Him, the one true living God. To know that He would be just and that He would also provide for us. He promised us the saviour and asked us to wait for Him.
“1In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe”
- Hebrews 1:1-2.
After God spoke to us in numerous ways through prophets, the day finally came when He sent us his Son, to live among us and to tell us the most intimate details of Gods existence. His Son ‘Jesus’ speaks the Word of God and delivers to us the message of salvation, to complete His father’s work.
36"I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.”
- John 5:36
While Jesus lived among us in body, He completed and perfected Revelation. He did this by working to reveal himself to us, through Words and Deeds, signs and wonders. The most important way in which God did this was through His death, through His glorious resurrection and through the final sending of the Spirit. In doing this, God confirmed the Revelation, which He had proclaimed.
“31He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.”
- Mark 8:31
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. “
- Romans 5:8 <http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=ROM+5:8&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on>
God shows His love for us by dying for us, that we may be saved. Jesus predicted His death to His apostles in Mark 8:31 through words. When He finally died on the cross, He proved himself to those who doubted him, giving us all faith. ‘God is with us to free us from the darkness of sin and death, and to raise us up to eternal life.’
“The obedience of faith”. We must have faith in God. We must commit ourselves to Him. We must allow ourselves to be open to what our Lord reveals to us. God opens our eyes our minds and our hearts to the truth, which he is teaching us. But we must allow ourselves to open up. By having Faith in what we are taught and by believing in what He says, we are deeply satisfied with joy and ease.
“5Through him and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.”
- Romans 1:5
The Holy Spirit brings his gifts, wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. These gifts strengthen our faith and in turn, give us an even greater understanding of revelation.
God chose to share with us humans his ‘divine treasures’. He had a plan for us to gain a greater understanding of him through these revelations. He gave us the power to understand things beyond the limits of the human mind. God, who is ‘the beginning and end of all things’, can be known for enlightening the human mind.
“20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
- Romans 1:20
We have no excuses. We simply must put our Faith into God. It is through his revelation that we can know the religious truths, which we know today.
So from this document I see divine revelation, as a manifestation of divine will or truth, something that is revealed by God to humans, the way in which God made Himself and His will known to the world. I see how we must have Faith in our Lord. God did so much in order for us to have Faith. He put the proof there, the ‘deeds’. He paved way for the Gospels so that we could pass an accurate account of his life down through generations, and those generations could continue on the belief that God Lived, Died, was buried and rose again for us. So that they could believe in the Holy Spirit. So that we would believe in God our creator and our Saviour.
