Sermon Outline:
- We know God for He has spoken clearly
- The Son reveals God our Creator and Sustainer
- The cross of the Son fully reveals God the Savior of sinners
- Cling to all and only what God revealed in His Son
Family Discussion Questions:
Younger and Older
- How did God speak to His covenant people before Jesus came?
- How did God speak to us through the words of Jesus?
- How did God speak to us through the life of Jesus?
- How did God speak to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus?
- What was the job of the New Testament Apostles who gave us the New Testament?
Deeper Discussion
- What is it about Jesus that would cause the New Testament authors to tell us to expect no more revelation from God, and how is this not God limiting His revelation to us?
- Compare and contrast the way in which God spoke by the prophets and how God has spoken by His Son?
- What words in this passage give the sense of finality, completion, and conclusion?
- In what ways have you seen people confessing to be Christians fall to the temptation to accept less than or more than what God has revealed in His Son?
- Why is it that the teaching of the Apostles does not add to what God had completely and fully and finally revealed in His Son?