Why do we call it the “New Testament”? At the Lord’s Supper, Jesus said, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood” (Luke 22:20). Hebrews 8-10 is all about the new covenant in which the blood of Jesus Christ would truly take away sin. He quotes from Jeremiah [...more]
“The Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ.” – Galatians 3:24 The Old Testament is full of references to Jesus. Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees, “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me“ (John 5:39); and then “For if you [...more]
As you pick up your Bible, you discover it is not just a single book. The Old Testament itself comprises 39 separate pieces of literature! As you look closer, you find the Old Testament is divided into five different sections. Men through the centuries grouped these books into logical categories. 1. Books of Moses (Law). [...more]
I was in prison yesterday. Okay, so I was AT a prison yesterday, not actually IN prison. But I still had a foreboding sense of lost freedom even though I never went beyond the front desk. I’ve been in prisons a couple of times to visit men and women who had been incarcerated for one [...more]
How often do you read the Old Testament? How often does your church study the Old Testament? There are a lot of churches which seem to have the habit of only doing topical studies, which leave the members dry when it comes to looking at complete texts. Other churches which DO have textual studies may [...more]
Don’t you wish you could have been on that road to Emmaus and heard Jesus explaining “to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27)? Don’t you wish you could have been with the apostles when Jesus “opened their minds to understand the Scriptures” (Luke 24:45)?Moses and the prophets wrote about Jesus. [...more]