PEOPLE NEED A MORE PERSONAL REVELATION OF GOD THAN A GENERAL REVELATION, PART 1.

I am in agreement with Millard J. Erickson’s view that “most people need a more personal understanding of God than is available through nature and general history.”1 As it says in Romans 1:20: “they are without excuse” at the natural revelations God shows humans through His creation. I am thankful that God reveals Himself in other ways, in more personal ways! I don’t understand completely how hard-headed I really was, in that seeing all His Majesty around me, I still would declare that there was no God! Maybe it was the loneliness of life, but I now knows I was without excuse, but I am forever grateful to the Lord Jesus for revealing Himself to me in a personal manner and becoming my Savior after hard circumstances, and believes much prayer by friends and family, brought me to the point of crying out to the Lord, who answered me by bringing the message of the gospel, and then all I had to do was to take the step of faith of believing in Him( which is His gift) and asking Him into my life; and so having a born-again experience!

Dr. Hayford says: “As we walk through the Scriptures we see a growing revelation of God’s heart toward us and His purpose for Man. At each encounter with man, God is seeking to reveal more of Himself , and the purpose of His revelation is that humankind may once more know Him.” After an initial born-again experience, a believer, who studies the Scriptures and preferably under the teaching of a mature, Spirit-filled Pastor who leads a church where the Old Testament as well as the New Testament is taught under the leading of the Holy Spirit, will grow in revelation of God’s heart towards them and His purposes for them. So this is one manner in which a person has a personal revelation of God!

BY FAITH
“Just as Abraham believed God,
And it was counted to him as righteousness.” Galatians 3:6

NOTES
1 Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),200.
2 Jack W. Hayford, Grounds for Living (Tonbridge: Sovereign World, 2001),28.

RASAR GI YESU KRISTO!

Kaka historia mar Jokristo ne dhi nyime, nying ‘Yesu’ ne ong’ere ni ‘Yahweh en Warruok’. Kuom paro mag Singruok Machon mag Ruoth, Jawar, Jawar, Nyasaye, tiendegi ne oter ne Yesu kod kaka Jokristo ne oyie kuome. 1 En adier ni bang’e, sani waneno Yesu kaka Jawar kendo Jawar kuom richo kod mudho mar roho, mane oumo remo e musalaba mondo ochul richo magwa, ka wayie! Kendo ni En e yo kende ma dhi ir Nyasaye! Omiyo En Jawar marwa!

Koro dwarore ni wabed gi ng’eyo mar nyuol kendo mondo wabed gi winjruok kode! E Johana 3:3,16 owacho kama: “ ‘Yesu nodwoko ni, ‘Adier, awachoni ni, ka ng’ato ok onyuol kendo, ok onyal neno pinyruodh Nyasaye’….’Nimar Nyasaye nohero piny ahinya, omiyo Wuode ma Jalno, mondo ng’ato ang’ata ma oyie kuome kik lal’ nyaka chieng’ Johana1: 25-26 wacho kama: “ Yesu nowachone ni, ‘AN e chier kod ngima, ng’at ma oyie kuoma, kata otho, obiro dak, to ng’at ma ngima kendo oyie kuoma ok bi tho nyaka chieng’. Be iyie gi wachni?’ “

Omiyo dwarore ni wayie kendo walok chunywa kuom richo magwa mondo sani wabed gi winjruok gi Nyasaye ma biro mana kokalo kuom ng’eyo ma nyuol kendo gi Yesu Jawar marwa kendo Ruoth! “Chakruok mar ngima mar Jakristo dwaro ni ng’ato ong’e ni en owuon en richo kendo obed gi gombo mar weyo yo mar ngima ma ng’ato dwaro mana owuon.”2.

NOTES

1Sinklair B. Ferguson, Daudi F. Rait kod J.I. Packer, jondiko, Diksonari Manyien mar Weche Dini, (Oboke mar Jodongo: Oboke mar Jakul Mang’eny, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, puonj mar Jokristo, (Grand Rapids: Somo mar Baker, 2006), 959.

WACH LAMO MA LUWO MOGI BEDO NG’AT MAR NYOL MANYI:
“Yesu ayie ni Ne otho e wi yath, .
ng’ado rembe mondo owene richo maga ;
Kendo ne ochier kendo e odiechieng’ mar adek!
Ang’eyo ni an jaketho. Akwayi mondo iwe ne richo ma an-go;
Akwayi mondo ubi e chunya!
Bi kendo ibed Jawarna kendo Ruoth mar ngimana!
Erokamano Yesu”