Understanding the Ongoing Value of the Old Testament
Discover the ongoing significance of the Old Testament for Christians today through insights on its divinely inspired nature, its role in understanding God's character, and its importance in shaping the main storyline of the Bible. Explore how the Old Testament provides context for the New Testament, aids in understanding Jesus, and serves as worship resources for the church.
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Webinar (March 4, 2020) We Still Love the Old Testament (with Tim Geddert and Lynn Jost)
A perspective from the New Testament (Tim Geddert) Two questions: (First) What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? (Later) How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament?
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? (6 points . . . The most important being # 3) 1. We read and study it because it is the divinely-inspired and authoritative Word of God. Jesus said so!
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? 2. We learn far more from the Old Testament than from the New alone what God is like.
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? 3. We need it in order to understand the main storyline of the Bible. - Bible is not an ethics book or a theology book; it is a story/drama, OUR STORY.
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? 4. We need it in order to understand the New Testament part of that story. - It is the primary context for reading the NT
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? 5. We need it in order to understand Jesus (point already made above).
What is the ongoing value of the Old Testament for Christians today? 6. We need it as worship resources for the church (e.g. Psalms).
A perspective from the Old Testament (Lynn Jost)
Gods Story Creation Covenant Christ Church Consummation
Gods Story (attributed by Walsh and Keesmaat and to N.T. Wright)
Gods Story Creation Covenant Christ Church Consummation Disruptors: Chaos and Crime
Creation God created them in the image of God Gen 1:27 God mandated humans to be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, exercise dominion Gen 1:28 LORD God placed Adam in the garden to serve and to guard it Gen 2:15
Covenant LORD said of Abraham, I have chosen him that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice Gen 18:19
Covenant vocation to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice Gen 18:19 Tsedekah (right personal relations) Mishpat (system of having the say )
Covenant Identity/Mission Keep my covenant. Out of all the nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine. . . . Exodus 19:5
Covenant Identity/Mission Although the whole earth is mine Exodus 19:5-6 (NIV) Indeed, the whole earth is mine (NRSV) After all, the earth belongs to Me (VOICE) For all the earth is Mine (NASB)
Mishpat This is what the king who will rule over you will claim as his rights 1 Sam 8:9-10 (NIV) These will be the ways of the king (ESV) This will be the behavior of the king (NKJV)
Covenant (Deuteronomy) What does the LORD require of you? Fear the LORD your God, walk in his ways, love, serve, keep the commands 10:12-13
Covenant (Deuteronomy) The LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords . . . who does mishpat for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger . . . 10:17-19
Covenant (Psalms) Do not trust in princes The LORD does mishpat for the oppressed Gives food to the hungry Set prisoners free Watches over strangers, orphans, widows Psalm 146
Covenant (Prophets) Seek mishpat Rescue the oppressed, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow Isaiah 1:17
A perspective from the New Testament (Tim Geddert) Second question: How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament? (4 points)
How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament? 1. Key OT texts provided the paradigm for understanding Jesus and his roles. - Psalm 2; Psalm 110:1, etc.
How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament? 2. Key Old Testament themes and texts are brought together in unprecedented ways to interpret the surprising way that God comes to save the world and establish God s kingdom. - Suffering Servant / Son of Man / Davidic King
How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament? 3. Key acts of God in the Old Testament are attributed to Jesus, God s Son, in the New Testament (including Creation).
How did the New Testament authors and characters use the Old Testament? 4. Old Testament institutions and religious practices are given deeper and fuller meaning in the New Testament. - Book of Hebrews (tabernacle, priesthood) - The Law (school-master) - The Combined Love Commands
OT Problems WAR God orders the slaughter of entire populations (Deut 7:1-2;1 Sam 15:3) LAW OT laws require rapist to marry victim (Deut 22:28-29) DIVINE WRATH God s wrath (Num 12:9 and hundreds more)
Possible answers--War God s aim is peace for the nations (Isa 2:4) Internal OT Debate? Ruth and Jonah offer salvation to nations Ezra 10; Neh 13 divorce foreigners Isaiah 56:1-8 welcomes foreigners
OT Problems--Law Motivation is the LORD s justice Laws change as circumstances change Culturally specific
OT Problems Gods Wrath Bruce Baloian Anger in the OT Compare 2 Sam 24:1 with 1 Chron 21:1 Wrath of God often is an explanation for justice in the fabric of life 2 Kings 17:17-18
