God Made a Promise

God Made a Promise

The stories of the Old Testament contain much more than mere moral lessons. In fact, these stories reveal a bigger story, a more expansive plot. While we can and must learn from the good examples we find in the Bible, we need to see that what unites these stories isn’t morality but redemption.

From Adam to Abraham to David, all of these Old Testament characters and stories have a place in the larger drama of God the Father sending his Son Jesus so that all may have life in his name through the power of the Spirit. As Jesus told us, the Old Testament Scriptures pointed to Him.

“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.” (John 5:39; see also Luke 24:25–27)

Thus, Scripture needs to be seen through the lens of Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of a very specific promise.

The story of the Bible is the unfolding of God’s promise that—though we deserve death for our sin—God will bring us into glory through the incarnation, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and return of his Son Jesus. In fact, Abraham, Moses, David, and Daniel all take their place as joyful beneficiaries of the promised gift of eternal life. So God is the ultimate hero in the greatest story ever told.

 

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