How does Jesus speak today?

Mat 8:5 ¶ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
Mat 8:6   And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Mat 8:7   And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
Mat 8:8   The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

This is a good example of how Jesus spoke in the day of his travels on earth. Does Jesus speak in the same fashion today as he did then? no, he speaks through Christian believers.

Does Jesus personally place the words in the mouth of the believer? no, God places the recollection of his word in our minds. And we speak what we recollect, just as the apostles were promised by Jesus, God will bring to recollection, what his son Jesus had spoken in person.

Why does Jesus depend on Christians today to speak his truth?

Mat 12:34   O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Bible study and understanding becomes very important in the life of a Christian, why, because how are we to speak God’s truth if we have never heard it, or we don’t accept it.?

Mat 7:22   Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23   And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Mat 7:24 ¶ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

What Jesus is saying here is, (I never knew you, because you never took the time to know me, I never said what you heard, and you don’t do what I did say)
Now how can we represent Jesus Christ to our fellow human beings, if we don’t know who he was, and what he said, or if we know what he said but we don’t trully believe it?

Jer 5:21   Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:.

We need to listen to what Jesus said, and not what we wish he had said.

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