God’s Word is to be Proclaimed – October 24, 2025  

Posted on Oct 24, 2025 in General |

We have a relationship with God because He chose to reveal Himself in detail through His Word. Hebrews 1 traces this revelation by noting that in the Old Testament, God began to reveal Himself through His prophets. God would speak to His prophets, and they in turn would talk to His people.

Noah served as the first of these documented prophets. He warned the world of God’s impending judgment and pleaded for their repentance. Years later, God identified Abraham as His prophet, then Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. God raised Moses as His prophet to reveal God to Egypt and Israel. Yet, Moses was different than the other prophets in that God also instructed Moses to begin to write God’s Word. From that time, until the last of the prophets (the apostles), they not only spoke God’s Word to the world, but many also wrote those Words for us.

Through these prophets, we have received God’s Word in written form. So that today, the way that God’s men speak God’s words is through the proclamation of the written Word. Moses instructed the Israelites to proclaim the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) to their children (Deut. 6:7). The Psalmist instructed us to value God’s Word as a light to our feet, and as honey to our lips (Psalm 119:11, 103). God informed Joshua that the pathway to successful leadership was through meditation and obedience to God’s Word (Josh. 1:8).

When Solomon dedicated the temple, he did so by proclaiming God’s Word (1 Kings 8). The major and minor prophets consist primarily of the sermons of those prophets to Israel and Judah. Nehemiah 8 contains the account of Ezra’s sermon to the Israelites who had returned from exile to rebuild the temple and the walls of Jerusalem. When Jesus ministered, he spent significant time preaching to the people. One of the largest sections of Matthew’s Gospel is now called the Sermon on the Mount.

One cannot come away from God’s Word without understanding the importance of the proclamation of that Word. Thus, in the early church, the central point of worship was the proclamation of God’s Word. The Apostles informed the Jerusalem church that preaching was their priority (Acts 5). Peter encouraged pastors to be faithful in preaching (1 Peter 5). Paul urged the Ephesian Elders to guard the flock through God’s Word (Acts 20). And he commanded Timothy to preach the Word boldly. Thus, when we gather, we center our worship around the proclamation of God’s Word.