A Biblical Vision, Part I: Mastering the Old Testament Witness to Christ

Sess ion 1: Int roduct ion

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d. John 1.17-18 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. [18] No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

e. John 3.16 – For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

2. Interpretation that does not make the explanation and interpretation of the Messianic hope its core cannot be entirely effective theology.

a. Deut. 18.15 – The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers – it is to him you shall listen.

b. Deut. 18.18 – I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

c. Luke 24.27 – And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

d. Luke 24.44 – Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

e. John 1.45 – Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”