God spoke to my wife in an audible voice

God Spoke to My Wife Again Today in an Audible Voice [Excerpts]

After I wrote an article challenging the notion that God tells people things in an audible voice, my wife said she disagreed. Almost daily she has been hearing from God.

Sometimes God talks to her for just a few minutes, more often she hears a voice for as long as an hour or more. This often happens in conjunction with her prayer time, and often when I am not around.

So I decided to sneak up on her and listen to see if I could hear God’s voice – to see if it was truly audible or just something in her head. Much to my joy, today I heard the voice, too. It was low and consistent. Here is some of what I heard the voice say:

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven…

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace…

I then discovered the source of the voice of God: She was playing a CD of someone reading the Scriptures, Alexander Scourby. I then realized I have heard God talking, too. Perhaps it was a different reader: a pastor or someone else reading the Bible. If I don’t have access to CDs or Cassettes of the Bible, my pastor reads long passages of Scripture on the Lord’s Day.

However, there is another way to hear God speaking to me. I can read the Bible out loud to myself*. And you can hear from God that way, too.

Theologian Frances Turretin (1623–1687) warned us centuries ago of those who think God speaks outside of the written word, in the name of the Holy Spirit: “The Holy Spirit (the supplier (epichoregia), Jer:31:34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
See All...; Jn:6:45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
See All... and 1 Jn:2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
See All...) does not render the Scripture less necessary. He is not given to us in order to introduce new revelations, but to impress the written word on our hearts; so that here the word must never be separated from the Spirit (Is. 59:21).

Later he explains the blessing of the written word. God’s word is sufficient; the Bible gives us all that we need. We don’t need tradition, a pope, Mormon “prophet” Joseph Smith, or any modern day “prophets” and “apostles.” We need the Word of God.

Turretin explains: “Three things particularly prove the necessity of the Scripture: (1) the preservation of the word; (2) its vindication; (3) its propagation. It was necessary for a written word to be given to the church that the canon of true religious faith might be constant and unmoved; that it might easily be preserved pure and entire against the weakness of memory, the depravity of men and the shortness of life; that it might be more certainly defended from the frauds and corruptions of Satan; that it might more conveniently not only be sent to the absent and widely separated, but also be transmitted to posterity.”

We give to the Scriptures such a sufficiency and perfection as is immediate and explicit. There is no need to have recourse to any tradition independent of them.

From the book called The Holy Scriptures by Francis Turretin (Kindle Locations 15-21, 337-338). Kindle Edition.

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