I had the privilege of going along to a Langham Preachers Seminar in Limuru last week and sharing on ‘Knowing and Preaching Jesus from the Old Testament’. What a great topic! My notes are here. I was leaning heavily on Jonathan Edwards among others. I’m realising this is just a huge topic and also a very sweet and wonderful one.
The stuff that was particularly new to many of us (me included as I prepared) was the idea of the presence of Christ in the OT:
- The Bible is Trinitarian from the first chapter onwards.
- Whenever people see the LORD appearing to them in the OT (or the glory of the LORD or the Angel of the LORD) it is the pre-incarnate Jesus.
- Jesus is the way, the truth and the life in the OT as well as in the NT.
- It was Jesus who saved his people in the OT.
- It was Jesus who spoke to and through the prophets.
- Jesus has always been the object of true faith, the one in whom the faithful OT saints looked to and the one who the unfaithful rejected.
That blows my mind!
If this is true, how will it change the way we read and preach the OT?
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