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Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament

Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament. A Guide for the Church. Key Questions. What is the worth of the Old Testament to contemporary Christianity? Is Christianity weighted down with its association with the Old Testament?

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Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament

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  1. Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament A Guide for the Church

  2. Key Questions • What is the worth of the Old Testament to contemporary Christianity? • Is Christianity weighted down with its association with the Old Testament? • Would the Church be better off if it disregarded the Old Testament?

  3. II Timothy 3:16-17 Paul instructs that ALL Scripture is worth our serious consideration.

  4. Old Testament Needed in Doctrine • Creation (Genesis 1-2) • The Fall (Genesis 3) • Nature of God (Isa. 40) • Substitutionary atonement (Is. 52: 13-53:12) • New heaven and earth (Isa. 65-66) • Second coming (Zech. 14)

  5. Old Testament and New Testament have a central theme:Jesus Christ The Rebuke of Jesus on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:25-27 )

  6. The Sheer Volume of the Old Testament cannot be ignored. • 77% of all Scripture is in the Old Testament

  7. The Always Contemporary Message Hebrews 3:17-4:2

  8. Losing the Power of the Old Testament Limits the Power of the Gospels Romans 1:1-2

  9. Why the Church Lost the Old Testament in its Preaching • Attacks by New Testament heretics • Interpretive strategies like allegory in early Church neutralized the Old Testament • The assumption of typology • The Enlightenment that focused on how it was composed rather than what it said. • Current interpretive frameworks that focus on meaning humans place on the text rather than divine revelation • A rabbi speaks

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