The purpose, aim and advantages of the Bible – half 6

Emeritus Prof. Mercy Olumide

if you had ordinary Me, you could have usual My Father also; and any more you understand Him and have considered Him."9 Jesus observed to him, "Have I been with you so lengthy, and yet you haven't established Me, Philip? He who has considered Me has viewed the daddy; so how are you able to say, 'reveal us the father'?" (Jn 14:7,9)

"he's the photo of the invisible God, the firstborn over all introduction. sixteen For with the aid of Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on the earth, seen and invisible, no matter if thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things had been created through Him and for Him. 17And he's earlier than all issues, and in Him all things consist. 18 And he's the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the lifeless, that in all issues He may also have the preeminence." (Col 1:15-18)

"God, who at a considerable number of instances and in a considerable number of approaches spoke in time past to the fathers with the aid of the prophets, 2 has in these final days spoken to us by way of His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; three who being the brightness of His glory and the express photo of His adult, and upholding all issues by the be aware of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on excessive." (Heb 1:1-three)

The Bible Makes Jesus wide-spread"You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you've got eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.40 however you are not willing to return to Me that you just can also have life." (Jn 5:39,40)

The religious leaders knew what the Bible pointed out, however didn't practice its phrases to their lives. They knew the teachings of the Scriptures, but failed to see the Messiah to whom the Scriptures pointed. They knew the rules but ignored the Saviour. Entrenched in their own spiritual gadget, they refused to let the Son of God alternate their lives. Don't turn into so involved in "religion" that you just pass over Christ.

read Luke 24:13-35. The walk to Emmaus"Then He spoke of to them, "O foolish ones, and gradual of heart to accept as true with in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Ought no longer the Christ to have suffered this stuff and to enter into His glory?" 27And beginning at Moses and all of the Prophets, He expounded to them in all of the Scriptures the things regarding Himself." (Luke 24:25-27)

"He expounded … the scriptures." The Messiah and His redemptive work through struggling is a vital OT theme. beginning with the promised offspring in Genesis (Genesis three:15) and going through the suffering servant in Isaiah (Isaiah fifty three), the pierced one in Zechariah (Zechariah 12:10), and the messenger of the covenant in Malachi (Malachi 3:1), Jesus reintroduced these disciples to the ancient testament. Christ is the thread woven through all of the Scriptures, the important theme that binds them collectively. Following are a few key passages Jesus may also have outlined on this walk to Emmaus: Christ may have noted such passage as Gen three:15; 22:18; forty nine:10; Num 24:17; Ps 22:1, 18; 69; 110:1; Is 25:eight; fifty two:14; fifty three; Jer 23:5; 31; Dan 2:24, 35, forty four; Mic 5:2; Zech 3:8; 9:9; 13:7; Mal three:1.

Believers aren't those that in basic terms have religion in Jesus Christ. quite, believers are people that have religion in Christ as he is published within the full message of the gospel (Jn 1:1-four).e-mail:mercyolumide2004@yahoo.co.uk www.thebiblicalwomanhood.com cellular: +234 803 344 6614; +234 808 123 7987