Sinclair B. Ferguson

But you know, this little phrase, the mouth of God, has the power not only to instruct the way we think about the nature of the Bible, but to help us to read the Bible.

I quoted the other day some words written by Isaiah about the coming Savior, that morning by morning the Lord opened his ear and he heard as one who was taught.

He listened through the Word to the voice of God.

Think about it this way, and I think you'll find yourself paying more attention to it.

More than that, I think you'll begin to think, there can be few greater privileges in all the world than this, that I'm able to sit here with my Bible and listen to our Heavenly Father speaking to me through it.

Remember how in Hebrews chapter 12, when the author of Hebrews quotes from the book of Proverbs, he doesn't say, this is what God said.

He says, this is what our Heavenly Father is saying to us.

He is now, through the Scriptures, addressing us as sons.

I think we need to recover that sense of the amazing privilege we have in possessing the Bible.

There are more editions of the Bible, more shapes and sizes of the Bible.

More Christians own many, many copies of the Bible.

But all the statistics tell us that we are a generation that knows so little about the Bible.

And perhaps it's because we've forgotten what the Bible really is.

It's the mouth of God.

And we need to learn to say with the Lord Jesus in the words of Isaiah,

Morning by morning, He wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

We've been thinking about worship this week, and perhaps you know if you've ever seen pictures of the Ligonier headquarters and Reformation Bible College, that they are situated on a small lake called Shadow Lake.

And across on the other side of the lake stands St.

Andrew's Chapel, the church where Dr. Sproul was minister.

I've always loved worshiping with God's people there for many reasons, but one of them is it's the only church that I have ever attended where the congregation sings the Sanctus.