BIBLE-NEW
TESTAMENT
Jesus Christ
is the link between the Old Testament and the New. God's revelation reaches its climax in the
New Testament - and this climax is not a new teaching...but a Person, God's own
Son. The Old and New Testaments are
related, therefore, not as law-gospel but as promise-fulfillment (a Person).
Preaching Christ from the Old Testament,
Eerdmans 1999, p. 49. www.eerdmans.com.
The Old
(Testament) is in the New revealed; the New (Testament) is in the Old
concealed.
The Gospels
tell us what Jesus said and did during His earthly ministry; the Book of Acts
reveals the coming of the Holy Spirit, the founding of the church, and the
spread of Christianity. The epistles
instruct us in sound doctrine – what to believe and how to live in the light of
God’s mercy and grace. The Book of
Revelation reveals “what is yet to come.”
Encouraging One Another, Cook Communication Ministries, 1985, p. 25. Reprinted with permission. May not be further reproduced. All rights reserved.
The New
Testament exists because the final, complete, decisive, lasting act of divine
salvation happened when Jesus, the Messiah, came into the world. He was the
final Adam (Romans 5:12-21), and the final prophet like Moses (Acts 3:22;
7:37), and the final Israel (Matthew 4:1-11), and the final high priest
(Hebrews 7:23-24), and the final Passover sacrifice (1 Corinthians 5:7), and
the final manna from heaven (John 6:31-32), and the final suffering servant of
Isaiah 53 (Mark 10:45), and the final Son of Man of Daniel 7 (Matthew 24:30).
His blood was the blood of the promised final new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31
(Luke 22:20). He therefore was the final, decisive Yes and Amen to all God’s
promises (2 Corinthians 1:20).
John
Piper
Abortion: The Innocent Blood of Our Sons and
Daughters, Sermon: January 27, 2008, www.DesiringGod.org. Used by Permission.