Conversion & Calling, Student Workbook, SW01

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C O N V E R S I O N A N D C A L L I N G

I. God’s Word Convicts Us about the Truth through its Primary Subject: the Person and Work of Jesus Christ.

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A. The master theme of Scripture is Jesus Christ. A knowledge of Jesus is the most important hermeneutic key to interpreting the Bible .

John 17.17-19 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

1. On the Emmaus Road, Jesus declared himself as the key to interpreting the Scriptures to the two travelers, Luke 24.25-27.

2. After his resurrection, Jesus taught his Apostles how he was the Bible’s interpretive center because of his suffering, death and resurrection, Luke 24.44-48.

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3. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for their mishandling of Scripture as they studied it with great diligence yet missed him as its central topic and theme, John 5.39-40.

4. The writer of the Hebrews refers to a quote from God’s anointed who recognizes how God’s book speaks about him, Heb. 10.5-7.

5. Finally, Jesus affirms in the Sermon on the Mount that he did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to fulfill them, Matt. 5.17.

B. Scripture portrays Jesus Christ as the Bible’s topical and thematic center.

1. Jesus is the Final Exegete of Scripture in his interpretation of the Old Testament, (cf. the Sermon on the Mount), Matt. 5-7.