The Old Testament Witness to Christ and His Kingdom, Mentor's Guide, MG09

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means can this video segment suggest to claim it has answered all the critical issues and problems connected with this approach. Nevertheless, the use of this method by the Bible itself is important for the students to understand and discuss. In the questions below you will find the focus is upon mastering the data and the facts associated with the claims made in the first video segment. Concentrate on ensuring that the students understand the answers in light of the lesson aims of the first segment. Make certain that you watch the clock here, covering the questions below and those posed by your students, and watch for any tangents which may lead you from rehearsing the critical facts and main points.

Materials placed in the margin and interspersed throughout this segment ought to be reviewed quickly during the review portion of the lesson. They represent materials that may help you and the students gain a better grasp of the role of the Tabernacle and its emblems in understanding the OT witness to Jesus Christ.

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It is obvious in thinking through these kinds of approaches to the Bible that we need the Spirit’s aid and power. No one can by mere use of reason and rules alone make the kinds of correlations that the biblical authors made in reading the OT and linking it to the person and work of Jesus Christ. We are not, in and of ourselves, sufficient to be ministers of such a remarkably full, rich, and mysterious covenant as that was made through the blood of Christ: 2 Cor. 3.4-6 - Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. [5] Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, [6] who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Another important insight from the scholar of prayer, E. M. Bounds, expresses clearly our neediness and helplessness as a call to persistent and fervent prayer for wisdom and insight:

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