The following are some reasons why the Lord’s church needs to teach the principal purposes of the Old Testament today:<\/p>\n
1)<\/strong> The examples of those who lived under the law were written for our learning (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11).<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong> They “testify” to the Deity of Christ (John 1:45; Luke 24:44; Acts 10:43; Hebrews 6:20; Hebrews 7:15-28; Hebrews 8:1).<\/p>\n 3)<\/strong> They help us understand principles of righteousness (Hebrews 11:1-12:2); faith and obedience of Abraham (James 2:21-24); patience of Job (James 5:11); courage of Elijah (1 Kings 18:1-40; moral purity of Joseph (Genesis 39:7-12); consequence of Saul’s disobedience (1 Samuel 15:13-23).<\/p>\n 4)<\/strong> The Jewish covenant of the Old Testament served the purpose of making the Jews to “know” sin (Romans 7:7; Gal. 3:19) and of bringing them “to Christ” (Gal. 3:23-25).<\/p>\n 5)<\/strong> The law foreshadowed many New Testament institutions (1 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 9:1-14; Hebrews 10:1-14; 1 Peter 2:5-10).<\/p>\n 6)<\/strong> Christ lived under the dispensation of the law of Moses (Matthew 5:17-19).<\/p>\n 7)<\/strong> In his death, as the one perfect offering for sin, He fulfilled the law and “took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross” (Colossians 2:14; Ephesians 2:14-16).<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n We also need to remember the example of the prophets in the Old Testament as they suffered affliction (James 5:10). If we remain “faithful” to the Lord (Revelation 2:10) we can “rejoice, and be exceeding glad” for our reward in heaven will be “great” (Matthew 5:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following are some reasons why the Lord’s church needs to teach the principal purposes of the Old Testament today: 1) The examples of those who lived under the law were written for our learning (Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11). 2) They “testify” to the Deity of Christ (John 1:45; Luke 24:44; Acts 10:43; Hebrews … Continue reading “Principal Purposes Of The Old Testament – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}