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This content introduces a new series focused on discovering Jesus throughout the Old Testament, arguing that God intentionally placed foreshadowings, types, and analogies of Christ within the Old Testament scriptures, which are meant to be understood and revealed through the lens of the New Testament.
so the point here is Jesus is throughout
the Old Testament ready to be discovered
and he seems to talk about it like it's
something that you should be noticing as
you read through the Bible let me
explain to you what we're doing we're
about to start a new series something
I'm very excited about doing even though
I'm not entirely sure how it's gonna
play out as we kind of unpack it and go
through it the series is gonna be on the
topic of how to find Jesus in the Old
Testament that's like the easy to grasp
title a more fancy title would be the
theology of typology and what we're
gonna do is we're gonna tackle this
issue of Jesus in the Old Testament that
that is God purposefully and
deliberately placing content in the Old
Testament that was meant to be clear and
even sometimes unclear pictures of Jesus
analogies of Jesus appearances
theophanies that sort of thing all of
the above
you know teaching that's related to him
in some way that this is throughout the
Old Testament and I think this is a very
exciting thing to study I think there's
something about it that just ministers
to our spirit like we need to get into
Jesus in the Old Testament there's some
very exciting about it it's also I think
neglected I think that we tend to not do
this very much and when you think about
it you're like yeah you know I I'll
study a whole book of the Old Testament
and not necessarily be thinking that
much about this issue or maybe not be
equipped with the ability to think very
well about the issue I don't know how am
I supposed to do this how do I know I'm
not just making stuff up I'm not just
like finding Jesus right the way I you
know discover like an imaginary friend
like how do I know I'm not doing that
and so I want to talk about that as well
because this is also not only is it
exciting and neglected it's also a
little dangerous because in a sense
we're almost telling people I'm not I
don't think I'm gonna do this but we're
almost telling people read between the
lines and I've heard people say some
interesting things you know and
sometimes I heard one person put it this
way sometimes you're thinking when they
when they go to the Old Testament they
find some passage where it's referencing
Jesus at least in their opinion and you
think to yourself is my pastor onto
something or is my pastor on something
because I'm like going about that buddy
so one of the things I want to do is I
want to look
for instance are there rules in
scripture for how we find Jesus in
Scripture that's one of the things we'll
look at as we go in this series of the
last several weeks so let me let me give
you kind of a brief overview since this
is the first in this series I don't like
introductions I just like terrific
writing the content but but I'm gonna
give you the brief overview today and
make a couple important points so we can
get started right today we're gonna lay
foundations we're just gonna establish
the fact that it is in fact a New
Testament teaching that Jesus is
throughout the Old Testament in pictures
and types and all sorts of different
ways even allegories in the in
description so that's that's today after
this we're gonna start to look not at
the Old Testament we're gonna start to
look at how the New Testament does this
so we'll look at say the book of Matthew
and how Matthew uses the word fulfilled
when it talks about the Old Testament
because Matthew doesn't more than any of
the other Gospels right then we will
look at maybe the book of Hebrews
because Hebrews is all about typology
and all about Jesus in the Old Testament
and what we're gonna do is we're gonna
sort of sit back and say look some of
these New Testament authors have already
done the work for us we're gonna look at
examples of types of Christ throughout
the scriptures I'll one week we'll just
do a bunch of types of Christ
I'll will look at Melchizedek and we'll
look at the rock that was struck and
we'll look at you know what we'll just
in fact what will specifically do is
look at types of Christ that are clearly
identified as types in the New Testament
and while we're doing this what I'm
gonna try and do god-willing
is pull out principles that we can use
so that then when we get into the Old
Testament for ourselves we can say this
really is about Jesus because in the
same way that the New Testament uses the
old we're using the old so we're trying
to draw principles so then after we've
gotten these principles from the New
Testament we're gonna go into Genesis
and then we'll do our series Jesus in
Genesis with all that sort of you know
skill that we've now obtained from the
New Testament this is this is what
really excites me is we're gonna go to
the New Testament to obtain our
methodology for how we find Jesus in the
old then we'll go to the old and do it
it's going to take approximately 800
weeks no I don't know how many weeks
this will take I can't predict exactly
how long it'll be because I can't
prepare the entire thing in one sitting
and then and then teach it over all
those weeks so really I have to I've
made kind of a general lesson plan and
I'll be spending the time and I'll be
learning this with you and then coming
and sharing it with you I don't even
pretend to be the guy that has the
corner on the market on this issue but I
will spend many hours preparing the
content to the best of my ability using
the best of whatever God's given me
giftings and teaching and that sort of
thing to understand it break it down
into something simple and bring it to us
for our consumption so we can use it
make something good out of it so there
is a there's a couple different ways of
approaching this right you can do this
Jesus in the Old Testament thing to
prove Christ or you can do it to know
Christ I'm gonna do it here to know
Christ that's the focus here I've done
this to prove Jesus already in the
evidence for the Bible series so my
focus here isn't to go I have to have an
ironclad case I have to have a lot of
really strict rules for showing that
this is about Jesus so the rules for
prophecy I did that already in the
evidence for the Bible series instead
we're doing this to know Jesus this is
like an in-house thing as Christians
we're going we're already believers we
already believe the Bible we just want
to understand it better so taking the
Bible as one book that's what we're
starting now you could use this as a
cumulative case because we're gonna see
Jesus so thoroughly in the Old Testament
and you could go we're just making that
up well the thing is other people have
tried this Joseph Smith for instance he
tried to find himself in the Old
Testament and it's laughable the way he
did it right we find Jesus clearly in
the Old Testament this is not a
fabrication this is not made up the the
old and new are definitely part of a
progressive revelation of God and let me
deal with one possible objection we all
talk more about this in future weeks but
we're worried about the word allegory at
least most of us who care a lot about
verse by verse teaching we're worried
about the word allegory and the reason
is because when you allegorize scripture
it becomes incredibly flexible like you
could almost do anything you want with
scripture and so people who teach verse
by verse and who care very much about
getting the verse in context we tend to
be a little
it hesitant to use things like allegory
but when it comes to Jesus in the Old Testament
Testament
I think allegory is divinely approved
but not any allegory and not reckless
allegory and that's what we'll get into
I'll explain this stuff so we can
hopefully open ourselves to this sort of
concept let me give an example of what I
mean I'm gonna compare two authors you
may be familiar with CS Lewis and j.r.r
tolkien I don't know I forget what jr. R
stands for John Ron Ron Tolkien and I
don't know but jr. R Tolkien he wrote
the well-known book write The Hobbit and
The Lord of the Rings Lord of the Rings
was actually originally one book I'm
definitely a Lord of the Rings fan
myself as many of some of you guys are
actually now he wrote originally as one
book and the time he wrote it was around
the time of World War two and so people
they saw these two sides good and evil
and they started drawing analogies or
allegories to World War two the Axis and Allies
Allies
and they started seeing like here we've
got we've got the elves and the dwarves
and the men and they're coming together
in the people of Rohan and that's like
America coming late to the battle when
they come in with the horses and the
Battle of Helm's Deep yeah I'm a nerd
now j.r.r tolkien is interesting because
he comes out and says no that's not an
allegory that's a coincidence he writes
in the foreword of one of the editions
of the Lord of the Rings he goes this is
not allegory
I detest allegory and he tells us his
goal in writing Lord of the Rings would
you like to hear did you know what his
goal was he said I wanted to see if I
could write a really long book and it
was originally written as one book not
three not a trilogy the publisher split
it into three books he had it as one
giant book that was his goal and if
you've ever read it which I have you
you'll you'll get into why why is he
describing this mountain for three pages
when they're just writing past it it's
not even really part of the story and so
cuz he's like longer is better you know
that's his goal now CS Lewis let me come
along with CS Lewis so my point here is
if you go into junior art Okun looking
for allegory you're making
it up it's not coming from the author
however CS Lewis is a totally different
story isn't he he wrote something called
The Chronicles of Narnia now in CS Lewis
Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia his
stated goal was allegory he wanted to
write a children's book that would teach
them truths about the doctrines of
Christianity truths about Jesus so Aslan
is a deliberate purposeful picture of
Jesus in The Chronicles of Narnia when I
go to The Chronicles of Narnia and I
looked for allegory I have full
permission from the author to do so
because the author has said that was why
I wrote it when you go to the Old
Testament and you look for pictures of
Jesus you have the approval of the
author because God's Holy Spirit is
divinely inspired that Jesus is in the
Old Testament in pictures and allegories
in all these various ways and so when we
go to the new what we're learning as
we'll study it is we're learning how he
went about putting Jesus in the old
conceptually in all these different ways
so we're gonna start today by now just
now you have the idea that's the big
overview of what we're doing right now
we're gonna start if you would turn to
Luke chapter 4 and we're gonna start
with Jesus's own mouth starting with the
mouth of Jesus we're gonna listen to
what before we do anything else what did
Jesus say about Jesus in the Old
Testament about how to find him there
and I will tell you guys I am now moving
at least for the sake of this particular
series we're moving to the ESV
translation so we've been doing New King
James for quite a long time in my own
studies I've slowly been moving away
from the idea of wanting to use the New
King James as my regular Bible but I'm
having a hard time studying other
translations thoroughly enough to know
if I want to like lock myself in so
we're just gonna go to the ESV for the
experience it's like pretty good to try
it out try it in this series it'll give
me a lot of time is studying with that
particular translation we may go to it
permanently I couldn't tell you for sure
yet now if you have the free phone apps
that have the Bible you probably got a
free ESV on your phone or on your on
your iPad or computer that's fine or you
could buy one and that'd be fine as well
but but anybody who's bothered by this
it's not a conspiracy
the best we can have available to us for
our purposes and something is faithful
to the Word of God I will put a link in
this video description to the evidence
for the Bible series the part where I
talk about Bible translations so I could
explain that in more detail in another
video it's there it's just called I
forget what it's called what did I name
that video anyways the Bible
translations like the good the bad and
the ugly yeah yeah there's a few videos
I did on that so anyways that research
is all available online it's free but
let's dig in now Luke chapter 4 verse 16
this is from Jesus's own mouth and look
at look at how he gives us a foundation
for this whole idea here's the author
right he's telling us he's telling us
what what we should look for and he came
to Nazareth 4:16 where he had been
brought up and as was his custom he went
to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and
he stood up to read and the scroll of
the prophet Isaiah was given to him he
unrolled the scroll and found the place
where it was written and I'll read in a
moment what he read but the the scene is
said it's this Jesus shows up the
synagogue it's normal procedure at the
synagogue synagogue is a gathering
probably a smaller gathering of a local
gathering of Jewish men who would come
together and sometimes Gentile converts
and they come together to be able to
read the scriptures everybody didn't
have their own Bible they gather
together one of the things they did they
would have a daily reading or a weekly
reading so he opens up to the to the to
the reading of that day they hand in the
scroll different guys would would stand
up to read this time it's Jesus's turn
or so it seems and then verse 18 here's
what he reads the Spirit of the Lord is
upon me no this is from Isaiah 61 verses
1 & 2 the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he's anointed me to proclaim the
good news to the poor he has sent me to
proclaim Liberty to the captives and
recovery of sight to the blind to set at
liberty those who are oppressed to
proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
and then what he does next is this is so
cool he rolls up the scroll he gives it
back to the attendant and then it says
he sat down and the eyes of all in the
synagogue were fixed on him the idea is
like you're not supposed to be done yet
like there's more reading to be done and
he began to say to them today this
scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing
hearing
Jesus doesn't even bother interpreting
it as far as what it means except to
tell them and that just happened like he
reads it says that was yes that was
literally about me right now in this
moment what Isaiah wrote the Spirit Lord
was upon me these were words he wrote so
I could say them to you right now
fulfilled check mark again bill done
accomplished that is a huge thing this
scripture has been fulfilled in your
hearing Jesus sees himself as stepping
into the fulfillment of ancient
scriptures that were about the Messiah
we'll get more into this as we do as we
go today so John 5 is the next passage
we'll look at John 5 John 5 verse 39
we're also gonna be looking at a couple
other verses in John 5 it says I'll give
you guys a moment to get there I'm
excited about this so I'm just gonna
talk really fast released that you
listen fast it'll be we'll all be even
John 5:39 you search the Scriptures
because you think that in them you have
eternal life and it is they that bear
witness about me look at the contrast he
draws he's like okay
Jewish men you're searching the
scriptures you're thinking that you'll
get eternal life by searching the
scriptures but the Scriptures aren't
going to give you eternal life they're
gonna tell you about me and I am going
to give you eternal life the purpose of
the Scriptures is not to give you life
it's to point you to Jesus who gives you
life now he includes I mean inclusively
the scriptures
that's just referencing the Old
Testament Genesis to Malachi and he says
yea they bear witness about me
so what then should I expect as I read
the Old Testament I should expect them
to bear witness of Jesus according to
Jesus now at this point there's a
skeptic who might be listening in
thinking like yeah but prove it's from
Jesus and I'm like that's a different
study one of my issues sometimes with
sometimes skeptics is that they want you
to stop all of your Bible studies and
only do apologetics only prove the Bible
all you can do all day long is prove the
Bible you know when the passage in
Nazareth they're like well how do you
know Nazareth really had a Jewish group
of people there how do you know Jesus
knew how to read how do you know he went
to the synagogue on this how do you know
they would let him read that scroll
everything so skeptical that they can't
actually do theology so we're gonna
we're gonna put the brakes on that and
we're gonna be now because I know I
online I have plenty of viewers who are
skeptics like that I'll say just pause
for a second and do theology for a
moment and understand the Christian view
if nothing else but what I should expect
according to Jesus is that all through
the Scriptures there's witnessing of
Jesus does this mean every verse there
are some who think it's every verse
every chapter it's in between the in
between the words it's the words themselves
themselves
it's that verse numbers which were added
later by other people and I I'm not
saying that but we should see throughout
the Scriptures testimony of Jesus in
John 5:45 Jesus goes on he says in that
same conversation with them do not think
that I will accuse you to the Father
there is one who accuses you Moses on
whom you've set your hope for if you
believed Moses you would believe me for
he wrote of me but if you do not believe
his writings how will you believe my
words according to Jesus Moses wrote of
who Jesus I'm getting excited about
reading Moses now Moses refers to they
could use them to use that term to refer
to a lot of things but specifically here
the Pentateuch or the first five books
of the Bible Genesis Exodus Leviticus
numbers and please bird don't
Deuteronomy sorry too much coffee Moses
wrote of me now I'm excited that means
Leviticus has stuff about Jesus yes
that's what that means yes that's what
that means and this is legitimized by
Christ himself so there are a variety of
ways we'll see this there are clear
things there are unclear things there
are things that didn't that were there
that were not didn't become clear until
you realized what they were about till
Jesus comes and then it's like you go
back and you understand it better so
that of course is all there so we have
isaiah being quoted we have the
scriptures being about jesus according
to him we have in general then we have
moses wrote of him and that Moses wrote
enough about Jesus to make these Jewish
guys accountable to know who he was well
that's interesting because he hadn't
even died and risen
yet yet you'd believe me
now one thing they had is they were
eyewitnesses of Jesus as many miracles
and the wonderful signs he was doing and
of course the scripture talks about in
Deuteronomy we'll get there eventually
one day in Deuteronomy talks about the
Prophet that was to come and all this
other stuff so there was literally
enough about Jesus in the Pentateuch to
make them accountable for knowing who he
was according to him now let's skip
ahead G and Jesus is the timeline of
Jesus right he comes he dies on the
cross he rises again and yet he has not
yet ascended it's that 40 day period
where he's on the earth doing all kinds
of teaching apparently and here we are
Luke 24 turn to Luke 24 please this is
what's called the road to Emmaus the
road to Emmaus we call this the road to
Emmaus because it happened while they
were on a road that led to Emmaus
mystery solved
Luke 24 verse 13 after the resurrection
of Jesus in fact this is right after
this is like that day it says that very
day that would be the day of the
resurrection verse 13 here two of them
to the disciples were going to a village
named Emmaus about seven miles from
Jerusalem and they were talking with
each other about all these things that
had happened while they were talking and
discussing together Jesus himself drew
near and went with them so they're
discussing like oh the crucifixion and
our hope was set upon Christ and like
and then they're starting to hear rumors
and stories that he's risen but they
don't yet believe them verse 16 and this
is really interesting their eyes were
kept from recognizing him
so Jesus draws near he's resurrected and
their eyes can't see him it doesn't say
he was unrecognizable physically says
their eyes couldn't so the the problems
with their eyes as though God
supernaturally kept them from
understanding who they were looking at
keep that in mind verse 17 and he said
to them what is this conversation that
you're holding with each other as you
walk and they stood still looking sad
then one of them named Cleopas answered
answered him are you the only visitor to
Jerusalem who does not know the things
that have happened there in these days
and he said to them
what things and they said to him
concerning Jesus of Nazareth a man who
was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people and how
our chief priests and rulers delivered
him up to be condemned to death and
crucified him but we had hoped that he
was the one to redeem Israel yes and
besides all this it is now the third day
since these things happened moreover
some women of our company amazed us they
were at the tomb early in the morning
and when they did not find his body they
came back saying that they had even seen
a vision of angels who said that he was
alive some of those who were with us
went to the tomb and found it just as
the women said but him they did not see
so they recount the story as it was at
the moment right and so you're right
there in the moment verse 25 and he said
to them o foolish ones o foolish ones
and you rebukes them listen to the
rebuke it's really interesting and slow
of heart to believe all that the
prophets have spoken slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have
spoken he doesn't just say that they
were foolish for not believing the
report of the women in a sense he does
this with Thomas when Thomas doesn't
believe the report of the other
disciples and then the and and the women
but in here he highlights a different
issue he says slow and hard to believe
in all that the prophets have spoken now
maybe not everything was clear but there
are very clear statements in scripture
about the coming Messiah who will suffer
and die along with the coming Messiah
who will rule and reign that there was a
minority group even at the time of
Jewish leadership or Jewish thinkers who
thought maybe there's two messiahs one
suffers and dies and one rules and
reigns because it was hard for them to
believe all that the prophets had spoken
oh they were ready for the ruling and
reigning god I'm ready for heaven but I
don't know if I'm ready for what it
takes to get there you know I'm ready
for glory I'm just not ready for the
glory of life that comes often times
before that and so in the same sense
it's like they didn't believe everything
that was written there is a danger that
we need to avoid and that's in believe
being selectively parts of Christianity
that we like and leaving aside other
ones that maybe we have a harder time
with because of whatever whatever the
reasons my life situation the culture
I'm in just the way I think it's really
healthy if you know that you're in a
place where if you have an idea in your
head and you read in Scripture that it's
wrong that you'll change your idea
that's like this is like just how it's
supposed to be you know like I'm
supposed to let myself come underneath
the authority of God and change my
opinions based upon Scripture and I try
to do this but I know personally it can
be a struggle and sometimes a process as
you are encountered with things in
Scripture and you go this isn't where I
would like I wouldn't wrote it that way
lord like and the foolishness that I'm
experiencing in my heart when I think
this but yet I've thought that I've
thought that and then I changed my mind
because I was being a fool and so we
should be doing that I'm so he rebukes
them because they didn't believe
everything now he goes on in verse 26 he
continues he says was it not necessary
that the Christ should suffer these
things and enter into his glory and we
can think here of things like Psalm 22
in Isaiah 53 that talked about the
suffering servant the talked about the
one who bears the sins of others and
even dies and then enters into glory and
so Jesus is like you should have known
you should have known verse 27 and
beginning with Moses and all the
prophets he interpreted to them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning
himself now yeah this is like if we
could trade this Bible study series for
Jesus and what he said to these guys in
English on the road to Emmaus probably I
need it in English sorry I would
absolutely make that trade Jesus is
literally doing a study series with them
on this 7 mile walk called Jesus in the
Old Testament and it's and it this
actually now you might be like I missed
out and it bugs me I missed out on this
but this might actually be the source of
some of the New Testament stuff do you
not think these guys wouldn't told
everybody all that stuff that Jesus said
do you not think that maybe perhaps this
influenced the writing of Hebrews or
that this influenced 2nd Corinthians
when he talks about typology of Jesus or
that it affected something
Matthew writing his gospel we may
actually have some of the exact content
Jesus share with these guys in our New
Testament here today that's quite
possible so really neat really cool
stuff but notice how he did it it says
beginning with Moses or starting at
Moses that's Genesis and then he
continues through all the prophets he
interpreted to them in all the
scriptures all the scriptures so we have
Moses the prophets and the writings this
definitely includes Genesis through
Malachi the entire Old Testament and he
does a survey through there he didn't
have the scrolls with him he you know he
knows subscription don't worry and he
and he just shares with them this this
this this there's pictures of Jesus
prophecies of Jesus explanations
analogies or allegories and
foreshadowings and all this kind of
stuff according to Jesus Jesus in the
Old Testament is something that's
legitimate it's a good study to do
that's all I'm saying verse 28 we
continue it says so they drew near to
the village to which they were going he
acted as if he were going to farther but
they urged him strongly saying stay with
us for his toward evening and the day is
now far spent so he went in to stay with
them when he was at the table with them
he took bread and blessed and broke it
and gave it to them and verse 30 ones
real interesting and their eyes were
opened and they recognized him so just
like their eyes were kept from
recognizing him now the opposites
happened their eyes are opened not that
they were physically closed but there
was something keeping them from seeing
who Jesus was so now they see Jesus for
who he is and he vanished from their
sight and they said to each other did
not our hearts burn within us while we
talked while he talked to us on the road
while he listened opened the scriptures
to us this is the effect of a Jesus in
the Old Testament study it's the opening
of the scriptures this is the point guys
once you realize that CS Lewis was
drawing an allegory with the Chronicles
of Narnia you go back over the story in
your head and you go that's like when
they cut his hair and oh and he the
older law that oh I get and the white I
like and it's all it click click click
click and it opens it up to you and the
same thing is true of the Bible of the
Old Testament when you see Jesus through it
it
it's not an added later idea it's the
original purpose it's the original
design Jesus in the Old Testament I also
think it's really interesting too
there's there's kind of an allegory
within the passage that I'll point out
if I can you might wonder why were they
really kept from recognizing him first
off right we noticed we noticed it was
their eyes that couldn't see him it
wasn't that he was unrecognizable it was
they were unable to recognize so it was
on them not him so I don't think I had
to do with some disfigurement or
something of Jesus I wouldn't that's not
what the text seems to say but there's a
parallel if you look at verse 16 and
then verses 31 and 32 let me read those
to you real quick and I'll look at this
parallel it says but their eyes were
open or assuming verse 16 their eyes
were kept from recognizing him and then
verse 31 and 32 I have that somewhere
here in my notes ah and their eyes were
opened and they recognized him and he
vanished from their sight and they said
to each other did not our hearts burn
within us while he talked with to us on
the road while he opened the scriptures
to us when they started their journey to
Emmaus they knew the Old Testament but
didn't understand Jesus in the Old
Testament they meet Jesus they are with
him but they don't know it by the end of
the journey the scriptures are open and
they can see Jesus in the Old Testament
and they can see Jesus right in front of
them I think it's a picture of how Jesus
says when you when you open up your eyes
and you see me in the Bible you see me
and I think has a really neat picture so
I get excited about this stuff forgive
me really awesome stuff in verse 35 it
tells you one more tidbit about when
they noticed him it says then they told
what had happened on the road they there
go back to the disciples and it says and
how he was known to them in the breaking
of bread the thing that really unlocks
who Jesus is and his whole purpose is
when you understand his sacrifice this
is my body broken for you and when you
come to the realization that this is
about God sending his son to die on the
cross for our sins now you now you get it
it
and the light bulb goes on and you
understand who he is and seeing the
crucifixion the light goes on
so the point here is Jesus is throughout
the Old Testament ready to be discovered
and he seems to talk about it like it's
something that you should be noticing as
you read through the Bible and now what
I want to do is let's look a little bit
some other passages we're gonna look at
the book of Acts
so the preaching in the book of Acts
reflects this whole idea that Jesus was
in the Old Testament it wasn't just like
a side note it was actually really
important to them so in Acts chapter 2
we have the first what we call the first
preachment in Acts you might want to use
that fancy word on somebody it's a
preachment it's just when Peter he
preaches the first open gospel message
in acts 2 and I won't read it because
it's a little long for us today but he
quotes multiple prophecies in that
opening message he's like hey let me
tell you about Jesus and he starts
quoting Old Testament prophecies and out
of how they relate to Christ in the
second preachment in acts 3 verse 18 we
read this the second time he Peters
preaching the gospel openly it says but
what God foretold by the mouth of all
the prophets that his Christ would
suffer he thus fulfilled so he's hanging
his preaching upon Old Testament
teaching it's not an afterthought it's a
foundational thought Jesus in the Old
Testament here's a foundational thought
I'm trying to drive home how important
this issue is as you continue that same
preachment Acts 3 verse 21 it says whom
heaven must receive until the time of
restoring all the things about which God
spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets
long ago Moses said and I was courting
Moses the Lord God will raise up for you
a prophet like me from your brothers you
shall listen to him and whatever he
tells you and it shall be that every
soul who does not listen to that prophet
shall be destroyed from among the people
and all the prophets who have spoken
from Samuel and those who came after him
also proclaimed these days Peter's just
doing what Jesus said right he's like
look this is all been predicted
throughout the prophets both Moses and
all the prophets talked about the stuff
we've just experienced Jesus coming
Jesus doing that Bluff that life of
ministry Jesus died on the cross Jesus
rising from the dead and now forgiveness
being preached in his name yeah yeah
that's in all of the prophets verse 25
he says you are
sons of the prophets and of the Covenant
that God made with your father's saying
to Abraham and in your offspring shall
all the families of the earth be blessed
God having raised up his servant sent
him to you first to bless you by turning
every one of you from your wickedness
this is just steeped in the idea that
Peter is using the Old Testament to
preach Jesus to these guys and he's all
through it so the next preachment is in
Acts chapter four and here we have it in
verse verses 10 and 11 of Acts 4 it says
let it be known to all of you and to all
the people of Israel that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you
crucified whom God raised from the dead
by him this man standing before you as well
well
this Jesus is the stone that was
rejected by you the builders which has
become the cornerstone this is a quote
from psalm 118 and so he talks about
Jesus how he's crucified and then he now
if you've ever studied psalm 118 it's
just like a really amazing messianic
psalm and especially the last portion of
the psalm is like just it deserves a
careful verse by verse study it's like
this really neat pictures of Jesus and
stuff throughout the psalm and Peter
recognized that and he used it to preach
to them I mean when Jesus was on the
cross he quoted Psalm 22
as if to draw attention to the very
psalm that talked about him doing the
very thing that he was doing while he
was quoting the song that talked about
him doing it I don't think I can say
that again do you do you see the pattern
acts 2 the first preachment Jesus in the
Old Testament the second preachment acts
3 Jesus in the Old Testament the third
preachment acts 4 Jesus in the Old
Testament do you doubt the pattern well
look at Acts chapter 5 action 5 verse 42
look at how consistently this sort of
thing is in the New Testament church it
says in every day in the temple and from
house to house they did not cease
teaching and preaching that Christ the
Christ is Jesus now here's where a lot
of times us Gentiles miss the point the
thing that they were teaching and
preaching teaching and preaching
teaching us to do with explaining
preaching us with proclaiming they did
both and the thing that they were
teaching and preaching was that the
Christ is Jesus now Christ is a title
not a name
the Christ is the Messiah and in that
first century Jewish time that they were
in right in that area if you said
someone is the Christ you were saying
there are there is this person the Old
Testament has said is coming and he will
do all these glorious things and his the
teaching about the Messiah the Christ is
throughout the Old Testament and guess
what Jesus is that guy so this is what
he was doing he was he was daily in the
temple and from house to house he was
going around showing Jesus in the Old
Testament that was the normal thing that
they did and every time you see the term
Christ it's a very significant thing in
the scripture realize that it's a claim
about the identity of Christ the
identity of Jesus I should say ok Acts
chapter 7 it's over to sitting a survey
of Acts looking for where they
referenced this teaching about Jesus in
the Old Testament so in Acts chapter 7 I
won't read the whole thing but Stephen
he gives an address right before they
stone him they kill him and if you read
through his address his long address
it's like what's he doing he's time I
like genealogies and stuff like who is
he's talking about and you realize he's
literally teaching them about Jesus in
the Old Testament and that's how he's
preaching to them there's all these
parallels he gives between Jesus and the
deliverers of the Old Testament and this
is a case for allegory a case for
pictures of Christ how we see Moses and
Steven uses Moses as an example Moses
went to the people of Israel the first
time and they rejected him then he came
to them a second time and they received
him and he gives a list of other people
who the first time they came they were
rejected by the people and the second
time they were received and he says
don't you know you've rejected the
Messiah just like he rejected all those
guys and he's drawing parallels between
their lives and the life of Messiah I
would go so far as to say that was the
point of their life was the life of
Jesus that the goal the target the rest
of the stuff was was made to happen so
that it might reflect Christ in Acts
chapter 8 we read about this eunuch the
Ethiopian eunuch who's on a journey he
goes to Jerusalem to worship
he's been converted and he is on his way
back to Ethiopia and he's got a scroll
and the scroll is of Isaiah and he's
reading the scroll from Isaiah 53 Isaiah
53 this beautiful messianic passage
about the sufferer
servant who dies for our sins and in
acts 853 he's meeting Philip and Philip
comes up and Philip notices that the
guy's got to scroll out and he goes do
you understand what you're reading right now
now
and the guy says how can I understand
unless someone explains it to me and
then it says in verse 35 then Philip
opened his mouth and beginning with this
scripture he told him the good news
about Jesus so we have this guy who's
who's become saved gets to know Christ
because he's just reading the Old
Testament and then a believer comes
alongside and shows him do you see it do
you see Jesus here in the Old Testament
again I mean it's so far it's in almost
every chapter of Acts this concept in in
Acts chapter 9 we have the conversion of
Saul and after Saul gets converted Saul
was one of those guys who when he when
he came to Christ he just kind of hit
the ground running serving the Lord and
ministering to people and witnessing and
whereas some people they come to Christ
and go in hiding which is probably not a
good idea but acts 9 22 says but Saul
increased all the more in strength and
confounded the Jews who lived in
Damascus and how did he confound them by
proving that Jesus was the Christ so he
just goes into Jesus in the Old
Testament I mean he knew his Bible well
and so when he came to know who Jesus
was it's like it all became open to him
and he got it so he would literally have
discussions and debates about Jesus in
the Old Testament and he proved that
Jesus is the Messiah the Christ of the
scripture interesting when Peter meets
Cornelius in Acts chapter 10 do you see
the pattern yet am i belaboring this too
much I'm not done there's more I could
do more that we're doing you in Acts
chapter 10 Peter goes to Cornelius
Cornelius is a Gentile and God has sent
Peter there to preach the gospel to the
Gentiles to show that God will wash
clean anyone who puts faith in Jesus you
don't have to become a Jew for it you
can just put your faith in Jesus and
Acts chapter 10 43 here's what Peter
says to Cornelius he says to him to
Jesus all the prophets all every prophet
all the prophets bear witness that
everyone who believes in Him receives
forgiveness of sins through his name
all the prophets bear witness of Jesus
and trusting in him that's what Peter
said that was what the New Testament
believed that's what Jesus thought this
is this is very Christian guys Jesus in
the Old Testament this is the author's
intent and so I'm I'm stoked getting
ready to do this this series but let's
keep going in Acts chapter 13 we have
Paul and he's at the synagogue at
Antioch in Pisidia there's multiple
antiox he's at the one in pasilla not
that you'll remember that or care about
it that much but that's technically
where he is right Antioch in Pisidia and
in Acts chapter 13 verse 14 he says but
they went on from purga and came to
Antioch in Pisidia and on the sabbath
day they went into the synagogue and sat
down after the reading from the law
which was the standard thing that
reading a text and the prophets the
rulers of the synagogue sent a message
to them saying brothers if you have any
word of encouragement for the peoples
say it so Paul stood up and motioning
with his hand said men of Israel and you
who fear God listen now what just
happened is Paul as far as they're
concerned Paul is a traveling rabbi
right Paul was still the rabbi when he
got saved he's still Jew like I said any
Jew is when they get say there's still
the Jew you know you're just a completed
you you already met your messianic now
you believe in the Messiah so they've
got a traveling rabbi they read the text
and then they have a time for people to
share so they're like hey we got our
guests over here Paul and the in his
group do you guys have anything to share
and Paul like well in fact I do
so he gets up in he stares he says many
brother listen to me and what he begins
in acts 13 is an Old Testament Bible
study proclaiming Jesus he doesn't just
say God loves you Jesus paid for your
sins he actually establishes it with
Scripture I'm not saying you always have
to do this but that's the example that
we've been given here we can learn from
it in acts 13 27 we read some of those
things he said this is for those who
live in Jerusalem and their rulers
because they did not recognize him nor
understand the utterances of the
prophets which are read every Sabbath
fulfilled them by condemning him if they
had got it if they realised who Jesus
was if they understood the Old Testament
properly they never would have done that
to Jesus because they would have not
wanted to be part of such a thing but
they didn't get it but but what he says
is they didn't understand the utterances
of the prophets that's what the prophets
meant originally they're read every
Sabbath they fulfilled the prophets by
condemning him because the prophets said
that that would happen and though they
found in him no guilt worthy of death
they asked Pilate to have him executed
and when they had carried out all that
was written of him they took him down
from the tree and laid him in a tomb so
you see that the idea that it was all
written ahead of time is very integrated
in the preaching of Jesus in the
preaching of Peter in the preaching of
Paul it was Paul's normal custom to do
this to do Jesus in the Old Testament
studies when he traveled around to the
different synagogues Acts chapter 17
actually talks about how he did this all
the time it was like his his normal
method of operation acts 17 verse 1 it
says now when they had passed through
Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to
Thessalonica where there was a synagogue
of the Jews a gathering of the Jews and
Paul went in as was his custom
this is his custom now and on three
sabbath days he reasoned with them from
the scriptures he did Bible studies
explaining and proving that it was
necessary for the Christ to suffer and
to rise from the dead and saying this
Jesus whom I proclaimed to you is the
Christ he's the Christ so he reasoned
with with them reasoned with them he was
like you see this text and I think of
what Jesus did you see this text this is
what Jews for Jesus does today in Israel
they literally go around and say hey can
we reason with you from the Scriptures
to show you that Jesus is the Messiah
and they show Isaiah 53 and they show
Psalm 22 and they show these other
various passages in Acts chapter 17
again we have the Bereans the Brees a
really interesting group
it says the in verse 10 of acts 17 it
says the brothers immediately sent Paul
and Silas away by night to Berea and
when they'd arrived they went into the
Jewish synagogue it was his normal thing
I'm gonna go to the synagogue I'll start
there I'll share with the Jews that are
gathered about Jesus in the Old Testament
Testament
now these Jews were more noble than
those in Thessalonica they received the
word with all eagerness examining the
Scriptures daily to see if these things
were so now we always use the Bereans as
our example of good Bible
study habits right you don't just take
my word for it you like go is that
really what the text says and that's
good that's healthy
but if we look at it in context they
were specifically checking to see if
Jesus was in fact the Messiah so they
were able to through Bible study of the
Old Testament confirm the identity of
Jesus and then they put their faith in
him that's pretty neat if you ask me
verse 12 many of them therefore believed
with not a few Greek women of high
standing as well as men what a great
thing to do do you doubt do you go how
do I know Jesus really is who we have I
think it's interesting is that you quote
isaiah 53:2 people just just hold it up
I actually it sucks actually Isaiah 52
like verse 13 all the way through 53 but
just bring it to somebody and let them
read it and then ask who do you think
this is about and they'll be like well
obviously that's about Jesus and then
just let them know that it was written
you know 600 years before Jesus I think
that kind of matters like this is neat
this is amazing stuff of course that's
in my evidence for the Bible series but
do you see that the pattern here in acts
18 for Paul's at Corinth and it says he
reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath
and tried to persuade jews and greeks
how the same method he would use the old
testament to preach jesus in acts 18 5
when silas and timothy arrived from
macedonia paul was occupied with the
word testifying to the jews that the
christ was jesus
so just consistent consistent consistent
this is what he does now there is an
anomaly here because you might ask do I
have to use Jesus in the Old Testament
in my evangelism is that what it's
saying in acts and I don't think so you
can though obviously you can they do but
do you have to in Acts chapter 17 I
think there's another example in acts as
well Paul goes to the Gentile audience
and when he's there in Athens speaking
to the Gentile he actually doesn't use
Jesus in the Old Testament as his method
of convincing them of who Jesus is he
uses the conscience and he uses the
testimony of the resurrection so the
conscience that our awareness of God he
rebukes them for their idols and then he
uses their awareness of of the fact that
they have moral guilt and the
foolishness of idolatry and then you
talk to them about the resurrection of
Jesus so it's just interesting oh
there's different tactics for different
groups of people in the book of Acts
if we're thinking about how to outreach
and how to evangelize people often will
pick one method of evangelism and
elevated as the only single possible
method or way it may be a legitimate
method and it may be very good but
scripture seems to involve a couple
different angles two different groups of
people but yes but if we're to be
Christians and we're to want to
understand the Word of God then we're
gonna need to look at Jesus in the Old
Testament if I want to know him better
if I want to understand the Old
Testament at all I really need to see
Jesus in it says this is a worthwhile
study a very worthwhile study Apollo
says I'll give you one more example
there's actually more I can also give
one more Apollo's in Acts chapter 18
verse 28 it says he powerfully refuted
the Jews in public showing by the
scriptures that Jesus actually that the
Christ was Jesus again it's the Messiah
of the Old Testament is Jesus and he
proved it
Paul had open public debates about the
identity of this Old Testament Messiah
and proved that it was Jesus and that
was his method of outreach so that's
Acts let's look at some of the epistles
I told you today we're laying a
foundation we're showing how important
it is and how throughout the scripture
this is a big deal and perhaps a
neglected area of Bible study at least
somewhat neglected in a lot of our lives
probably even in my own if I if I must
admit to having one failing one little
failing in my entire life I will admit
to it I guess yeah I know it's
definitely neglected in my own I'm
excited about getting into this because
I will be studying it with you just a
few days before you coming to share it
afterwards so in the epistles okay first
let's look at first Corinthians chapter
15 first Corinthians 15 is has what's
called a Creed this was like the first
New Testament Creed we often think about
Creed's like you know the Apostles Creed
or the nice seein create or you name it
there's different Creed's and different
churches hold two different Creed's that
sort of thing this is actually the Creed
that we find in the Bible it's not the
only one I don't think but it's
definitely a Creed and the first Creed
we find in the scripture so Creed is a
formulated doctrine put in
- like a slogan or statement or
basically this is exactly how we want to
say it and we're locking it in with
these words
so this Creed goes back to pretty much
most people agree within five years of
the crucifixion of Jesus so this Creek
goes back to before the writing of the
first Corinthians book itself before the
writing of Matthew Mark Luke or John
this is ancient ancient Christian
content first Corinthians 15 verse three
and four it says for I delivered to you
as of first importance what I also
received and here's the Creed that
Christ died for our sins in accordance
with the scriptures that he was buried
and that he was raised on the third day
in accordance with the scriptures it was
important enough to include it in the
creed that it was in the scriptures that
Jesus would die it would be buried and
would raise again that this is all
according to the scriptures in Romans 1
1 through 3 Paul lays out the gospel in
the beginning of we just finished our
series on Romans so this might be fresh
on some of your guys minds
we're in Romans 1 I mean just like a
little over a year ago so it should be
really fresh Romans 1 verse 1 through 3
says Paul a servant of Christ Jesus
called to be an apostle set apart for
the gospel of God and listen to how he
describes the gospel which he promised
beforehand through his prophets in the
holy scriptures concerning his son who
was descended from David according to
the flesh and then he goes on it's it's
it's all Old Testament man the New
Testament is Old Testament that's the
point I like the phrase the the New
Testament what's in the New Testament
concealed or in the Old Testament
concealed excuse me is in the New
Testament revealed as a nice way of
considering these things we're seeing a
flow of thought at the end of Romans we
went over this actually last week Romans
16 verse 25 and 26 it says now to him
who is able to strengthen you according
to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus
Christ and these words are so neat
according to the revelation of the
mystery that was kept secret for long
ages but has now been disclosed to us
and through the prophetic writings has
been made known to all nations according
to the
and of the eternal God to bring about
the obedience of faith now this implies
something we can take notice we're not
just saying here that Jesus is in the
Old Testament we're saying more than
that this passage is saying that what
was okay there's clear indications of
Jesus in the Old Testament but once
Jesus comes dies and rises all of a
sudden we know what to look for so now
when we go back and we look at the text
it's disclosed it's been opened to us
you can know more now than they could
know before Jesus came you can have a
greater understanding of the Old
Testament then you could have before
Jesus came for several reasons we have
we have Jesus as the model we know what
we're looking for when we look there we
also have the New Testament writings as
examples and instructions on how to do
this and how many times they tell us was
fulfilled was fulfilled was fulfilled
that sort of content so two more
passages and then we'll talk a little
bit well we'll call it for tonight so
revelation 19 this is interesting
revelation 19:10 there's just this
statement at the end of Revelation 19:10
that is very profound about the nature
of prophecy the very nature of prophecy
and prophecy here not just speaking that
I'm telling you the future exactly but
that I'm proclaiming in the name of God
like prophetically I'm speaking as a
prophet and revelation 19:10 it it's
recounts an issue between an angel and
John it says then I fell down at his
feet to worship Him this angel but he
said to me you must not do that I'm a
fellow servant with you and your
brothers who hold to the testimony of
Jesus worship God for the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy that's
interesting huh the testimony of Jesus
is the spirit of prophecy the very
nature their very function the very
purpose the spirit of the prophecy is
that it's about Jesus that's the point
it's actually the main point of the text
Jesus is literally the key to
understanding the Old Testament and once
you know who Jesus is it unlocks the Old
Testament for you and that's the last
verse we'll get into today which is
second Corinthians 3 I think this
relates directly to what we're talking
about today
I don't know if you've ever read this
verse in this context 2nd Corinthians 3
verse 16 it says but when one turns to
the Lord the veil is removed now the
analogy here is that it's interesting
because here's a Jesus in the Old
Testament analogy right is that Moses
when he went into the tabernacle he was
there so near God's glory that he came
out and he glowed or he had some sort of
manifestation of God's glory coming off
of his skin so he wore a veil and the
reason for the veil according to the
scripture is so that they would not see
the glory fading the glory was fading it
was temporary he was in the God's
presence that he came it would fade and
that this is like an analogy to the idea
that Moses or the law was meant to point
you to Christ but it was going to fade
in some sense as it delivered you over
to Jesus but he then describes the veil
I'm giving you the context of 2nd
Corinthians 3 he describes this veil as
being upon the heart of the unsaved
person as they read the Old Testament
particularly the Jew who's actually
reading the Old Testament and that the
veils on their heart they're they're
reading it but not comprehending they're
like many of the Jews of Jesus's time
reading it we should probably I would
have been one of them you know like
reading it but not getting it reading it
but not seeing Jesus in it as though
there's some veil something blocking
them from seeing the glory of Christ but
verse 16 when one turns to the Lord the
veil is removed now the Lord is the
spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord
is there is freedom and we all with
unveiled face behold beholding the glory
of the Lord are being transformed into
the same image from one degree to
another for this comes from the Lord who
is the spirit I you know what I meant I
think I meant to put in also a couple
verses before that so let me actually
turn there real quick because I don't
want us to miss this point it's kind of
important like everything I say ever
okay maybe not everything but it's
definitely important okay is that New
Testament just first Corinthians second Corinthians
Corinthians
okay so second Corinthians chapter 3
look at the description of how when
they're reading the Old Testament they
don't see Jesus there's a veil but when
they read the Old Testament they do see
Jesus the veil is removed that's the
context so 2nd Corinthians chapter 3
well starting in verse 12 since we have
such a hope we are very bold not like
Moses who would put a veil over his face
so that the Israelites might not gaze at
the outcome of what was being brought to
an end but their minds were hardened for
to this day when they read the Old
Covenant the same veil remains unlifted
because only through Christ is it taken
away yes to this day whenever Moses is
read a veil lies over their hearts but
when one turns to the Lord the veil is
removed and then you see what you see
the purpose you see the point it's not
like you don't get the Bible at all
without Jesus you just don't get the
point you don't get the main point
you're reading Chronicles of Narnia but
you're not realizing it's all an
allegory the whole point is it refers to
Jesus so we intend to with unveiled face
look at the Old Testament and see the
glory of Christ so I have some questions
I want to try to answer in this series
now that I've laid out the foundation
what rules are there that we can get
from Scripture when I look at the New
Testament and see how it does these
allegories and these pictures of Jesus
can I bring this into like sort of can i
systematize it a little bit and go
here's like some policies I can have as
I approach the Old Testament so I can
faithfully see Jesus in the text we're
not making stuff up are there limits to
this thing what rules keep me from
making up new theology and getting weird
how do I avoid that yet without throwing
out the baby with the bathwater you know
I thought throwing out the fact that
Jesus is in fact the point here so we're
gonna be a little bit analytical about
this stuff and I'm not just gonna say
well the New Testament writers were
inspired so don't try to figure out how
they figured out that part they were
inspired I'll say yes I believe they
were inspired but I also think God is
rational and so maybe I can't figure out
why every allusion to the Old Testament
is used in the new but it doesn't mean I
can't figure out why any of them are
used doesn't mean I can't learn
something from it and apply that to my
own study of the Old Testament to be
able to get so much
more out of it what God intended us to
get the first time because it seems to
me from the teaching of Jesus from the
teaching of Peter from the teaching of
Paul from Apollo's from the New
Testament epistles from the book of
Revelation it seems to me that there's
an awful lot of Jesus in the Old
Testament and it's not just once every
three like books where you find you find
oh that's a prophecy about Christ
there's a lot more than that so we're
gonna get into all that stuff so let's
pray and we'll talk father God we we
trust your word excited because Jesus is
the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy this is it that the veil is
removed we look to the Old Testament and
we look for Christ and we pray that
you'd equip us with wisdom and you give
us real like solid methodology so we
could approach this thing from a place
of safety but also from a place of
discovery we want to see more of you to
know you better to understand you better
we pray you to unlock the scriptures for
us and give us great wisdom as we study
the New Testament to see how it uses the
old as we then move into the Old
Testament for ourselves to try to
understand how we see Jesus we we pray
for wisdom we pray that you would open
our eyes to see you in Jesus name Amen [Music]
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