Why the old testament?

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Key Text:   2 Timothy 3:14- 4:5  
Other Readings:   Jeremiah 31:27-34,  Luke 24,

Introduction

Ezra - Nehemiah = Read it (EZRA chapter 1), Jeremiah
Ezra Nehemiah - not quoted or mentioned by Jesus - Old testament, not Jeremiah, Isaiah, Psalms Daniel “all scripture” this period - seem less valu
able
we read the old testament every week - the word of God are churches who read less of the bible
Why are the looking to the old testament? we always read from the OT in our services
Problem - We are Jesus people - why do we use the old testament - there are stories in the
not under law - but we are under grace - cos it was Jesus bible - Jesus’ community

Main Body

JB1
Because the old testament points to Jesus - read it backwards !
Luke 24:44 NIV 2011
He said to them, ‘This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.’
fits in to a story line that is fulfilled - they point forward but in different ways - - - - Messianic promise is not in every book but it fits in to the story Psalm 22 - not all like that Isiah k 53, Isaiah 9 vs Jesus quotes - Psalm 110
It is not hard to imagine illustrations of how this continuity and discontinuity function. When travellers sail across a vast ocean and finally arrive on the distant shore, they leave the ship behind and continue over land, not because the ship was no good or because their voyage had been misguided, but precisely because both ship and voyage had accomplished their purpose. During the new, dry-land stage of their journey, the travellers remain—and in this illustration must never forget that they remain—the people who made that voyage in that ship.
Perhaps the best example of this line of thought anywhere in the New Testament is one of the earliest: Galatians 3:22-29, where Paul argues that God gave the Mosaic law for a specific purpose which has now come to fruition, whereupon that law must be put aside, in terms of its task of defining the community, not because it was a bad thing but because it was a good thing whose task is now accomplished. But, as the whole letter indicates, the people of God renewed through Jesus and the Spirit can never and must never forget the road by which they had travelled.[†]
† N.T. Wright, The Last Word: Scripture and the Authority of God—Getting Beyond the Bible Wars (New York: HarperOne, 2005), 57.
sometimes the old testament will illustrate the new testament
but more than likely the new illustrates the old testament - not hat the words change but we read back th elife, words and person fo Jesus in to the text to help them .....
God-breathed, God-spirited holy spirit - creation - breathed into adam dictated - but inspired - human and divine
2 Peter 1:21 NIV 2011
For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Daniel who filled with the Holy Spirit when helped Susanna escape death,
Moses, The Lord first anointed Moses with this ministry of the Spirit and then, in a truly dramatic scene, took some of this ministry of the Spirit and shared it with the seventy elders. Thus they were enabled to help Moses administer Israel (Num. 11:17–25).
Also, Joshua (Deut. 34:9), the judges (Judg. 3:10
6:34), and the kings of united Israel and the southern kingdom were anointed with this special ministry of the Spirit. When the Spirit of the Lord came upon King Saul, for example, he was in effect given “another heart” (1 Sam. 10:6–10). This does not mean that he was regenerated at this point in his life, but that he was given skills to be a king. Later, the theocratic anointing was taken from Saul and given to David (1 Sam. 16:1–14). Saul, from that time on, became a totally incapable leader.
David last words “Spirit of the Lord spoke through me”, 2 Samuel 23:2 Samson,

Conclusion

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