If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me—For He Wrote of Me
October 5, 2009 | By: David Mathis | Category: DG Resources
This week's sermon: "If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me—For
He Wrote of Me"
How did Jesus and his apostles view the Hebrew Scriptures? As pervasively
pointing to the Messiah who would be both the earthly son of David and the
eternal Son of God. In their minds, the entire Bible was a revelation of
Jesus.
In John 5, Jesus himself makes clear that the Old Testament witnesses to
him. It witnesses to him because from all eternity, God the Father saw the
perfections and accomplishments of his Son and witnessed to them in his
inspired Scriptures before his Son came to earth, lived among us, died for
believers, and rose again.
Jesus and his apostles saw that wherever God is revealed in the Old
Testament, Jesus is revealed. The whole Old Testament is a revelation of
Christ—not only in particular prophecies but pervasively about Jesus.
The world-changing implication is that what we make of Jesus is what we make
of God. Jesus is the test for whether we know God, whether we truly honor
God, and whether we really love him.
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