How Can Christians Declare Previous Testomony Guarantees as Their Personal?

Rising in Holiness

This is a vital query, as a result of guarantees are the very means for serving to us to persevere in struggling and to develop in holiness. What we hope for tomorrow modifications who we’re at the moment. If we actually imagine that the pure in coronary heart will see God, that’s going to affect what we take a look at and what we contact, as a result of we wish to see God.

What we’re hoping for tomorrow modifications who we’re at the moment. Three-fourths of our Bible is Previous Testomony, so how do all these guarantees relate to us, particularly once they got to a special individuals in a special time below completely different covenants? The New Testomony authors would mannequin for us that each one these Previous Testomony guarantees matter.

Jason S. DeRouchie

With a agency grasp of the progress of salvation historical past, this accessible information helps Christians interpret the Previous Testomony, see the way it testifies to Jesus, imagine that Jesus secured each divine promise, and perceive how Moses’s legislation nonetheless issues.

Certainly, Paul may say in 2 Corinthians 1:20 that each one the guarantees are sure in Christ. However solely in Christ, that means that I can’t go to guarantees made to Israel and easily declare them for my very own other than Jesus. However Jesus is the last word king of Israel. He’s the last word human. That’s, he’s not the primary Adam, however he’s the final Adam. And each one of many guarantees that had been made in that earlier period change into ours—each one in all them—via Jesus.

And so the Christian must wrestle with what it appears like at the moment when each religious blessing, says Peter, has been secured for us in our identification with Christ. A part of the aim of this e book is to attempt to assist Christians perceive how all these guarantees, reaching again all the best way to Genesis within the preliminary three-fourths of our Bible, change into ours—however solely via Jesus.

Jason S. DeRouchie is the creator of Delighting within the Previous Testomony: By way of Christ and for Christ.

Jason S. DeRouchie

Jason S. DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is analysis professor of Previous Testomony and biblical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon School. He’s an endowed chair at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a content material developer and world coach for Palms to the Plow Ministries.