if you asked someone where you could
find stories about jesus in the bible
they'd probably say the new testament or
maybe specifically the four gospels and
they'd be right but did you know jesus
made a much bigger claim on the road to
emmaus in luke 24 jesus told two of his
disciples that every story in the bible
speaks about him and beginning with the
writings of moses and all the prophets
jesus explained exactly how he said that
if you look closely every story in the
bible points to the suffering and the
glory of christ to be clear by suffering
jesus meant something that pointed to
his death on the cross
and by glory he meant something that
pointed to his resurrection on the third
day when we read the bible through this
gospel lens as jesus instructed us to
the light of the savior shines through
every bible story embedded like a
watermark of promise and we discover
that jesus's suffering and glory is the
common thread uniting all of scripture
let's apply this gospel vision to the
familiar story of adam and how god
created his bride
in the beginning like jesus adam was
innocent and full of life
but god put adam into a deep sleep
resembling death
then god pierced adam in the side and
took out a rib that he used to create a bride
finally god awakened adam in the garden
to receive the glorious gift of his bride
bride
now did you hear another story in that
the apostle paul says that jesus was a
new adam
like adam jesus was innocent and full of life
life
but god brought the sleep of death upon
him on the cross
then god allowed the roman spear to
pierce jesus aside and just like adam
god took what flowed from jesus's side
the water and the blood to create his
bride god took the blood for her
purchase and the water to make her pure finally
finally
god awakened jesus from death to one day
receive us as his bride in a glorious
new garden
and that's only the beginning
from genesis through the end of
revelation the bible proclaims the
gospel of jesus suffering and
resurrection glory and so we find that
every story in the bible is really just
telling one story the gospel story of
