{"id":5990,"date":"2023-05-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T15:01:28","slug":"why-read-the-old-testament-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5990","title":{"rendered":"Why Read the Old Testament? Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">previous two blogs<\/a>, I&#8217;ve listed five reasons to continue reading the Old Testament:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cAll scripture\u201d is inspired and profitable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul preached \u201cthe whole counsel of God\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of the New Testament doesn\u2019t make sense without it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are principles there you won&#8217;t discover anywhere else<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are examples to follow or avoid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the last one that I&#8217;ll write about. You want to read the Old Testament because&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus is there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He may not be in every chapter, but he is there, as far back as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5386\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis 3.15<\/a>. (And that&#8217;s not counting <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis+1%3A26&amp;version=NKJV\" target=\"_blank\">Genesis 1<\/a>: &#8220;Let <em>us<\/em> make man in our image&#8230;&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a sermon I would like to have heard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And [Jesus] said to them, \u201cO foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?\u201d And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24.25 &#8211; 27, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beginning with Moses (Genesis &#8211; Deuteronomy) and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers\u2014it is to him you shall listen&#8230; (Deuteronomy 18.15, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sup>1 <\/sup>&nbsp;My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?<br><sup>6 <\/sup>&nbsp;But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.<br><sup>7 <\/sup>&nbsp;All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;<br><sup>8 <\/sup>&nbsp;\u201cHe trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!\u201d<\/em> <em>(Psalm 22.1, 6 &#8211; 8, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the LORD\u2019s favor&#8230; (Isaiah 61.1, 2, ESV<\/em> &#8211; compare <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+4%3A18-21&amp;version=NKJV\" target=\"_blank\">Luke 4.18 &#8211; 21<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53.5, 6, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. (Zechariah 12.10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let&#8217;s keep reading, even the Old Testament! (And don&#8217;t forget to supplement when necessary with Mark&#8217;s Gospel or the Psalms.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous two blogs, I&#8217;ve listed five reasons to continue reading the Old Testament: Here&#8217;s the last one that I&#8217;ll write about. You want to read the Old Testament because&#8230; Jesus is there! He may not be in every chapter, but he is there, as far back as Genesis 3.15. (And that&#8217;s not counting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Read the Old Testament? Part 3<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1yC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}