Global School of Ministry
Course 102 #1Jesus Christ In the Old Testament
Visit any part of the world today. Talk to people of any religion. No matter how committed they are to their particular religion, if they know anything about history, they will have to admit that there has never been a man like Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the most unique personality of all time. He is the greatest leader, the greatest teacher, the holiest man who has ever lived and the greatest personality of all time. He is the only begotten son of God. He is the Savoir of all mankind. He is the one who restored and changed man’s relationship with God. He is the only one who can forgive sin. He is God. Jesus forever changed the way God relates to mankind. Sure, there are scriptural examples of God’s catastrophic judgment on sin. But God’s greatest act of judgment was when He placed His entire wrath upon Jesus for our sins. This forever satisfied God’s wrath. Since that time, God hasn’t been judging our sins [2 Cor. 5:19]. God’s not angry with us; He’s not even in a bad mood.
Jesus changed the direction of history. Even the date on your morning newspaper testifies to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth lived on earth nearly 2,000 years ago. B.C. means "before Christ"; A.D. Anno Domini, "the year of our Lord".
Hundreds of years before He was born, prophets predicted His coming in great details. The Old Testament which was written over a period of 1,500 by several writers from different places and customs contains more than 300 prophesies describing His coming, His miraculous birth, His sinless life, His many miracles, His death, and His resurrection and ascent into heaven, and His eventual return to banish evil and rule over the earth forever. Indeed all of these also point to the fact that Jesus is not merely man, but more than man. Jesus claimed, "I and the Father are One" [John 10:30], "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" [John 14:9], and “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6].
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