How Can Christians Claim Old Testament Promises as Their Own?

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This is a crucial 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 immediately. 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 need to see God.

What we’re hoping for tomorrow modifications who we’re immediately. Three-fourths of our Bible is Outdated Testomony, so how do all these guarantees relate to us, particularly after they got to a unique folks in a unique time underneath totally different covenants? The New Testomony authors would mannequin for us that every one these Outdated Testomony guarantees matter.

Jason S. DeRouchie

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a agency grasp of the progress of salvation historical past, this accessible information helps Christians interpret the Outdated Testomony, see the way it testifies to Jesus, imagine that Jesus secured each divine promise, and perceive how Moses’s regulation nonetheless issues.

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

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And so the Christian must wrestle with what it seems like immediately when each religious blessing, says Peter, has been secured for us in our identification with Christ. A part of the aim of this ebook 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, turn into ours—however solely via Jesus.

Jason S. DeRouchie is the creator of Delighting in the Old Testament: Through Christ and for Christ.

Jason S. DeRouchie

Jason S. DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is analysis professor of Outdated Testomony and biblical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon School.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 international coach for Arms to the Plow Ministries.