Jesus on Every Page

05/13/24 • 14 min

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Jesus on Every Page – Chapters 1-6
Unfortunately, there is a general neglect of the OT in many churches. Several reasons:

▪ Liberalism – sustained attack on the OT by liberal scholars have shaken Christian’s confidence in the OT
▪ Ignorance – lack of knowledge of the culture and history of the OT
▪ Irrelevance – no longer applicable to life today
▪ Dispensationalism – their artificial dividing up of the Bible into different eras ended up relegating the OT to a minor status
▪ Bad examples – OT preaching and teaching is often done poorly
▪ Laziness – studying the OT might take more effort
▪ Christ-less preaching – too often OT preaching degenerates into moralism
▪ Using the title “Christ” instead of the name “Jesus” when referring to the 2
nd person of the trinity in the OT
What’s the OT all about?
▪ Luke 24:25-27, 44
▪ Matthew 5:17-18
▪ John 8:56
▪ Galatians 3:8
▪ Hebrews 11:8-9
▪ 1 Peter 1:10-11

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Jesus on Every Page – Chapters 1-6
Unfortunately, there is a general neglect of the OT in many churches. Several reasons:

▪ Liberalism – sustained attack on the OT by liberal scholars have shaken Christian’s confidence in the OT
▪ Ignorance – lack of knowledge of the culture and history of the OT
▪ Irrelevance – no longer applicable to life today
▪ Dispensationalism – their artificial dividing up of the Bible into different eras ended up relegating the OT to a minor status
▪ Bad examples – OT preaching and teaching is often done poorly
▪ Laziness – studying the OT might take more effort
▪ Christ-less preaching – too often OT preaching degenerates into moralism
▪ Using the title “Christ” instead of the name “Jesus” when referring to the 2
nd person of the trinity in the OT
What’s the OT all about?
▪ Luke 24:25-27, 44
▪ Matthew 5:17-18
▪ John 8:56
▪ Galatians 3:8
▪ Hebrews 11:8-9
▪ 1 Peter 1:10-11

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Jesus on Every Page – Chapter 7 – “Christ’s Planet: Discovering Jesus in the Creation”
Key verse:

▪ Colossians 1:16
▪ Things created have the purposes in Christ [Jesus created his own teaching aids – camels, birds, sheep, etc.]

Good to begin with considering who the opening chapters of Genesis original audience was

▪ Written originally for Israel, a redeemed people in a fallen world
▪ Written by Moses primarily to teach the newly redeemed people of Israel about their Redeemer God and to look to Him for an even greater Redeemer and redemption – a Redeemer greater than Moses and a redemption greater
than a physical deliverance from Egyptian slavery
▪ Think John 1:1-3 and Hebrews 1:1-3

There was a plan of redemption before there was a creation:

▪ Ephesians 1:4
▪ Revelation 13:8
▪ 1 Peter 1:20

If you want, we can go through any of the following: advance of redemption (48-49); advantages of redemption (50);
apex of redemption (50-51); author of redemption (51-52); or application of redemption (52-53)
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