GOD'S PROMISES #4

"We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote - Jesus of Nazareth ... "

All of the Old Testament promises are contained in this one verse. Here we are told that Moses and the prophets, that is, the whole Old Testament, stood on tip-toe, waiting in eager expectation for the coming of the One of whom it spoke.

This was affirmed by Jesus himself: after his resurrection from the dead he taught his disciples about himself and his death and resurrection 'from the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms'.

His entire life was lived consistently with what was written about him prior to his coming.

The Bible teaches that all that was anticipated in the Old Testament and its covenants has its fulfilment and reality in Jesus Christ. He is the goal towards which it all advanced; he is its secret meaning. In him all the mysteries of the knowledge of God are revealed.

What previously had been veiled in symbol is now an open reality. What previously could not be seen or understood is now fully revealed.

In Jesus Christ we now see the one true God. He is the truth. He is the light of the world. Beyond Jesus Christ there are no further promises, no further knowledge of God. To seek beyond or beside Jesus Christ for truth about God is betray that one has never really known him.

Scriptures: John 1:45; Matthew 13:16-17; 1 Peter 1:10-12; Luke 24:27,44-49; Matthew 1:22; 4:14; 5:17; 8:15-17; 21:4-5; 26:54-56; Mark 14:49; Luke 4:21; 22:22; John 13:18; 15:23-25; Colossians 2:16,17; Hebrews 8:5; 10:1; Colossians 1:25-2:4; 1 Corinthians 2:6-10; 2 Corinthians 1:20; John 12:44-46; 1 John 5:20; John 14:6; 8:12; Colossians 1:19; 2:9, 19; 1 John 2:18,19.