Mentor's Manual

188 For the Nex t Generat i on: The Urban Mi n i s t r y I ns t i tute ’ s Mentor Manua l

Objectives for Capstone Module 9, The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom

After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Objectives for Lesson 1 The Promise Given

1. Define the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament through the idea of progressive revelation , which affirms that God has revealed himself progressively and definitively throughout the history of his people, and finally through Jesus Christ. 2. Lay out the various aspects of progressive revelation, including God’s continuous revelation of himself to us through creation, through specific manifestations and occasions, and in these last days through his Son 3. Show how the OT explains and reveals the NT through the person of Christ, and how both testaments focus upon God’s final and full revelation of himself in Jesus Christ and his kingdom reign. 4. Reproduce Augustine’s epigram (saying) on the relationship between the two testaments: “In the OT the NT lies hidden; in the NT the OT stands revealed.” 5. Highlight the complimentary concepts which connect and explain the relationship of the Old and New Testaments, including the OT providing the introduction to the NT’s conclusion about Christ, the OT as anticipation of Christ and the NT as its climax, the OT as the shadow (prefiguring) of the person and work of Christ and the NT as the embodiment of those figures, the OT as the ineffective former revelation of God’s salvation and the NT revelation in Christ as the consummated latter, and theOTas the particularized form of God’s salvation universalized to all nations in the NT. 6. Lay out the definition and elements of the promise and fulfillment motif in OT revelation, which affirms the promise of God for his own chosen one to redeem humankind and to destroy the devil’s work, a promise fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. 7. Identify the central texts in Scripture which affirm how the OT’s work is to provide a compelling and definitive witness to the person of Messiah fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ (cf. Luke 22.25-27, 44-48; Matt. 5.17-18; John 1.45; 5.39-40; Heb. 10.5-10 with Ps. 40.6-8).

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