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Commentary on "The Holiness of God"
Day 2: Sunday, January 29, 2012 - "It Is Written"
Overview
This day’s lesson argues for the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament, and that the New Testament is intricately linked with the Old. Both testaments speak of the same God.
Observations
With that I heartily agree and unfortunately it is sometimes necessary to make those points to people who read the Bible and claim to be Christians. To the Lesson’s points about the Old Testament I would add that the primary purpose of them is to testify of the Messiah, Jesus. The law, the prophecies, the Psalms, all these prophesy and prepare the way for Him. When Jesus met those two disciples on the road to Emmaus that fateful Sunday, He showed them how all of scripture pointed to His dying and rising. Jesus’ incarnation, death, and resurrection were not hastily prepared reactions after the tragedy of sin. Jesus has always been the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8). His death for sinners was decreed by God long before any sin had been committed. Salvation for sinners was Plan A, not Plan B.
Like those ignorant disciples, we too can see our Messiah by hearing the testimony of all scripture, and knowing that what God declares in ancient times must come to pass. Speaking about the Old Testament, Jesus told us that “it is they that bear witness about Me” (Jn. 5:39). Jesus Christ as Lord is the meaning and purpose of all scripture.
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