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Pentecost Saturday

#DailyDevotion The Bible Is Anything But ‘Basic Information Before Leaving Earth’

Pentecost Saturday

Read Luke 24:1–27

Luk 24:25-27 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!  (26) Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”  (27)  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

 

We shouldn’t be too hard on the disciples on the road to Emmaus.  We’re pretty dense when it comes to understanding the scriptures also.  It would have been great to hear Jesus exposit the scriptures of the OT and see how they all point to him.

 

Modern scholarship pretty much denies most of the most blatant or rather easily seen passages with hindsight of the New Testament.  It makes it much harder sometimes to see the other ones not so blatant.

 

But this should teach us to use the scriptures rightly.  First and foremost we must look for Jesus in the Old Testaments scriptures and the New Testament scriptures.  How is Jesus fulfilling them?  How do they point to him?  Do they allude to him in any way?  They should.  Jesus says so.

 

After looking for Jesus, then we can look to scripture for sub-purposes, purposes which are never the less to drive us to Jesus.  St. Paul writes, 2Ti 3:16-17  “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,  (17)  that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.” And he says of the punishments meshed out in the OT, 1Co 10:6 “Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.”

 

So the bible isn’t basic information before leaving earth.  That is a misuse of it.  There’s nothing basic about it.  It is about Jesus and how he brings us to himself.

 

Lord Jesus Christ, give us your Holy Spirit that we might ever find you in the scriptures and that our hearts might not be dull to understand them. Amen.

 

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Rev. Guillaume J. S. Williams, Sr.

The Reverend Guillaume Williams is the Pastor of Hope Lutheran Chapel of Osage Beach, Missouri. His pastoral ministry with Hope began in 2005 where he preaches the Christ crucified.

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