We are gathered here now to worship the God who reveals Himself. Moreover, we are worshiping the God who reveals Himself by speaking and by writing, and by becoming a human being who can rightfully be called the Word.
Those who seek to undermine our confidence in the ability of words to communicate truth are, whether they recognize it or not, at war with Jesus Christ.
But confidence in words is inescapable; this is how God created us. And this means that the only real question is which words we will have confidence in, not whether we will have confidence in words. The postmodern theorist wants to erode our confidence in all words, other than his, all authors, other than him, and so we see his aspirations to Deity. He wants to be the only unquestioned one.
It was the same with the serpent in the garden. When the serpent said, “Yea, hath God said,” the point was to get Adam and Eve away from the words and commands of God. He did not want to invite them to apply this hermeneutic to what he was doing. Just imagine: “Yea, hath the serpent really said, ‘You shall not surely die.’? Maybe this means that we will really die, and the serpent means to urge us to obey God. Deep down.”
Jesus is the eternal Word of the everlasting Speaker, interpreted by the divine Hermeneutic, the Hermeneutic that is everlastingly holy, and ultimately personal. We have been created in the image of this God, this triune God, and so our words do not fall to the ground. We can speak and be heard. We can gather to worship God the Speaker through God the Spoken in the power of God the Understanding. We are not lost. We are not confused. We are not abandoned, whatever the contemporary serpents may say.
All we have to do is listen to the words of God, and hear them. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.