Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 2 | BIBLE INTERPRETATION: THE THREE-STEP MODEL / 127

your demands!) known to God. He has promised that his provision and peace will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4.6-7). Remember one another during the week, and take note of your requests and those of others, and see how God answers your petitions for wisdom, power, and blessing.

ASSIGNMENTS

Psalm 1.1-3

Scripture Memory

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Reading Assignment

Again, make certain that you read the assignments above, and as last week, write a brief summary for them and bring these summaries to class next week. (Please see the “Reading Completion Sheet” on page 16.) Also, now is the time to begin to think about the character of your ministry project, as well as decide what passage of Scripture you will select for your exegetical project. Do not delay in determining either your ministry or exegetical project. The sooner you select, the more time you will have to prepare! In our next lesson, The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom: The Promise Given , we will examine the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament through the idea of progressive revelation. We will look at the complimentary connections which exist in the OT and NT as they relate to the person of Christ and his Kingdom, and consider the unique motif of promise and fulfillment , and how this integrates and makes one the teaching of Scripture on the person of Jesus Christ. This unity of truth is seen in God’s marvelous promise to send a redeemer to humanity through whom God’s enemy would be destroyed, and humankind would be redeemed. In the protoevangelium (i.e., the first telling of the Gospel in Genesis 3.15), through the covenant promise of Abraham and its extensions we see how the Messianic hope is the unifying principle of the Old Testament and the joyous fulfillment of the New, all finding their climax in the person of Jesus Christ. He is both the seed of the woman and the seed of Abraham. May the Hebrew Scriptures unveil his glory to us, and transform us as we become diligent students of God’s holy Word!

Other Assignments

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B i b l i ca l S tud i e s

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