And I know you because?

Paul testifies in Acts 26:15, “And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.”

“Paul, an orthodox rabbinical scholar, knew who Jehovah was and he knew it was the God of the Bible who opened the heavens, so when he says, ‘Who art thou, Lord?’ that question goes back to the Book of Genesis,” explains Jordan.

“When Jacob wrestled with the Lord, he said, ‘Tell me your name!’ Then, in Exodus 3, Moses says to God, ‘Tell me, who am I supposed to say sent me?!’ In the Book of Judges, Gideon’s mom and dad say, ‘Tell us who you are! Who is this guy?’

“God wouldn’t tell any of them. Paul said, ‘I got a question; who are you?’ You know good and well he was thinking, ‘Oh, man!’ because he’d been out killing Christ’s followers.

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"King Nebuchadnezzar says to Daniel in Daniel 2:47, 'Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.'

“To me this is one the greatest titles of God in all of the Bible. In verse 29, Daniel had told him, ‘As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.’

“You can’t find God out by searching but you don’t have to because God reveals Himself.

“Isaiah 22:14 says, ‘And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.’

“At camp in California we were discussing some of these guys in the Bible who talk about God talking to them.

“You know how He spoke to Isaiah? It was, ‘HEY, Isaiah!’ It was an audible voice and Isaiah heard Him with his ears. Now God isn’t going to talk to you like that today.

“I Corinthians 2:9-10 says, [9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

“You got something better than Jesus Christ appearing to you at the end of the bed and talking to you. You’ve got something that doesn’t disappear; something that doesn’t just rely on your memory of what was said.

"You’ve got something written down on a page that doesn’t change and is always there and always reliable.

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“When people talk about translating the Bible, the great translation problem was taken care of long before anybody had to worry about English. If you can translate deity thoughts and deity words into human words, that’s the translation product!

“People talk about language limitation--there’s the language limitation! If you could take the thoughts of the godhead and put them in Hebrew and Greek, anything else taken from one language to another is a snap.

“God revealed it, made it known. He translated His thinking into our thinking. Isaiah 30:8 says, ‘Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.’

“He takes the revelation and commits it to written form, putting words on the page in a book. He writes that revelation down and we call that inspiration.”