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.

David Mathis (@davidcmathis) is an elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Twin Cities, and works as executive pastoral assistant to John Piper. He and his wife Megan have twin sons (Carson and Coleman) and live in Minneapolis. David is co-editor (with John Piper) of Thinking, Loving, Doing, most recently, and Finish the Mission, forthcoming. Yep, he plays rec softball and went yard in his last game.