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Jesus Christ and the Scriptures
Everything fulfilled written about Him
03-04-05 Evening
!!! Announcements
!!! Bible Presented
!!!
Call to worship
!!!!!!  Bible Verse
Praise the Lord!
For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy.
(Psalm 147:1, 11)
!!! Blessing
Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
(Galatians 1:3-4)
!!! Hymn no/ /253:3/ /(Doxology)    /               “Blessed Jesus at Your Word”/
!!! /(one verse only)/
!!! Prayer of Adoration, Invocation, Thanksgiving and the Lord’s Prayer
!!! Hymn No 102:                                            /“Sovereign Grace”/
!!! Confession
·         Reading of the Ten Commandments: Exodus 20:1-17
·         Prayer
!!! Declaration of pardon
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
(Psalm 32:1)
!!! Hymn No 497:                                            /“How blest is he”/
!!! Scripture Reading                                     /Genesis 1:1-2; John 1:1-5/
!!! Offering and Dedication
I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.
(Deuteronomy 26:13)
While the offering is taken up, all remaining seating sing:
!!! Hymn no 369:                              /“Lord, her watch your church”/
(Tune 441, 3 verses)
!!! Prayer for others
!!! Hymn No 252:                            /“His Name forever shall endure”/
*                                        */(Tune 299, 3 verses)/
!!! Scripture Reading                     /Luke 24:36-49/
!!! Sermon                                          “/Jesus Christ and the Scriptures”/
!!!!!! Introduction
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
May I begin tonight by asking, “How important is the Old Testament to you?” “When was the last time you sat down to study the books of the Old Testament?”
There are people who don’t read the Old Testament arguing that it is not really exciting stuff.
You look at books like Leviticus and most of the Minor Prophets and reading it just don’t make for exciting reading.
Well, question is why should it be exciting before I need to read it?
Besides, people say, in the New Testament is about Christ and the Old Testament is about Israel.
Point is, if I don’t read it I neglect a huge part of God’s revelation of his will.
Others make a case that the Old Testament is not important for the New Testament church.
Now that we live in the times of the fulfilment of the Scriptures in Jesus Christ, we don’t need to read the Old Testament.
In this way the Old Testament becomes mere illustration of how God dealt with his people in another dispensation some time long ago, but to them, the real thing is that we read and understand the New Testament.
I want to make a statement tonight, based on the Word of God: He who does not read and understand the Old Testament, will read but not understand the New Testament.
If the Old Testament is the promise and the New Testament the fulfilment, how will we understand what is fulfilled if we do no know what was promised?
One of my professors used to say: if we cannot see the Messiah in every page of the Old Testament we read it wrongly.
Yes, we don’t read the Old Testament as rabbis and Jews; we read it as people of the cross and resurrection.
But we must read it.
In the Old Testament we see the beauty of God’s plan of redemption unfolding up onto the birth of or Master:  He is the fulfilment of the Scriptures, and because of this fact, He is the message of hope to the New Israel, i.e. all those the Lord will call to Him out of all tribes, tongues, nations and peoples.
!!!!!! Unbelieving disciples
In Luke 24 we find the disciples of Jesus bewildered, doubting and without direction.
This is hardly the group of people you would expect to go into the world conquering it in the Name of the resurrection Christ.
When Jesus appeared to them, He had to show them his hands and his feet.
The reason for this was to connect Him with what had happened only some days prior:  they had to see and believe that this Person in their midst was indeed the One the soldiers had nailed to the cross.
Further, that this Person in their midst was not a ghost of the Lord Jesus, but it was Jesus Christ, resurrected in bodily form.
The blasphemy of some Church leaders can say that Jesus Christ has not risen in bodily form, is hard to understand!
This paragraph in the Bible is a very clear proof that Jesus indeed raised in bodily form.
It is of course if extreme importance that Jesus Christ was raised in bodily form, or we have no hope that our bodies will be raised one day at his return!
If indeed He would then return, if He was not raised from the dead.
But the vital point for the disciples to understand was not only that Jesus Christ was resurrected, but equally important was that they had to understand:  ; “Who was this resurrected Jesus?”
More than that, who was Jesus Christ?
Jesus had taught them many things about Himself during his ministry, but it seemed as they could still not get the full picture.
And that is exactly the problem with modern day evangelicalism:  Jesus Christ is preached to the people, they hear and believe the message, but in many cases Jesus Christ and the teaching about Him is put alongside all the other teachings about many other religions.
I heard about people doing evangelism in India, reaching out to people as they leave places of worship.
The Indians accepted the tracts, read the Bible portions and gladly accepted the message.
But next week they were back at their temple and mosque to worship their gods, and on their way out they would even ask for more literature from the Christians.
It did not make a difference.
Why?
The Christian evangelicals only handed out portions of the Scripture, but hardly presented the Scripture.
The modern day students are not necessarily opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
They are like the people of Athens, they don’t mind to learn about yet another possibility as far as religion goes.
The difference is just that we need to present the full Gospel about Jesus Christ, or it will make no difference: they will still believe in evolution and the post modernistic idea that there is not such a thing as absolute truth.
So, when Jesus that day appeared to the doubting and wavering disciples He made sure that they knew the Scriptures, and more specifically, what the Old Testament said about Him.
Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”
And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
(Luke 24:44-45)
!!!!!! Things written about Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
We were not there to hear what exactly Jesus taught his disciples.
But let’s look at certain very important statements of the New Testament about Jesus pointing back to the Old Testament.
;  God created through Jesus Christ
First is the verse we read from John 1 tonight.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
(John 1:1-3)
This statement about Jesus Christ, being the God’s Agent for creation, is not isolated in the Bible.
Let’s read further:
; God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1-2)
Another paragraph:
; He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created through Him and for Him.
And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
(Colossians 1:15-17)
What do these verses teach us?
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