Jesus: The Fulfillment Of Promise

You know one of the greatest gifts anybody ever gave me in my life was teaching me about the unifying theme of Scripture…teaching me to look for Jesus Christ in every nook and cranny of both the Old and the New Testament. Indeed, you can’t help but find Jesus Christ everywhere in our Bible. What’s powerful about that to me is that it proves for me over and over and over again that Jesus is my Savior. He is the One! You see, The Bible is a very important part of our salvation because God’s Word has the power to save. Talking about Jesus, the apostle John says, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” So friends, not only is Jesus the fulfillment of God’s promise to send us a Messiah, not only can we find Jesus everywhere in Scripture, but Jesus literally is that Word of God that saves. “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God!” These are incredible words of Scripture that have the power to save us. For the Pharisees, they tried unrighteously to follow God’s Law to the letter to try to save themselves from their own short-comings. But for those who understand Who the Word is, the Law’s job is to point us to Jesus as the fulfillment of promise. In other words, the Law shows us that we alone are hopeless, but that Jesus is the One God promised, Jesus is the one who was pierced for our transgressions, and Jesus is the only way to salvation. Without the Words of the prophets and apostles telling us about Jesus, we can’t even know about Him. And then the real miracle happens: God the Holy Spirit comes to us and says, “Yes! Jesus is the Word made flesh. Jesus is the way to life. Jesus is the fulfillment of Promise. And that Promise is for YOU!” Friends, believe in Jesus and live! “What God promised our fathers he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus”!

So as we close friends, I challenge you to look for Jesus Christ every time you open your Bible. And in finding Jesus there, you are literally finding the divine lovgoV, the Word made flesh. And by finding Jesus, God the Holy Spirit comes to you and makes His dwelling within you. Jesus is the Word. Jesus is the Way. Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise. And Jesus is for you. Amen.

Now may the true faith…