Christ Makes Many Indirect Allusions to the O.T.
Many Things He taught - Not
Original - Derived from O.T.
N.T. Allusions Come From O.T. Passages
Matt. 4:17 Kingdom of heaven
Dan. 2:44
John 3:5, 10 Born of water and Spirit Ezek. 36:25-27
Matt. 8:10-11 From the East and from the Isa. 49:5-6, 12
West
Luke 13:25-27 Depart from me all ye Psa. 6:8 workers
Matt. 9:36 Sheep not having a Shepherd Num. 27:15-17
Matt. 10:34-36 Came not to send peace, Mic. 7:4-6 but a
sword.
Matt. 23:37 hen gathereth her brood Ruth 2:12
Luke 10:38-42 One thing is needful Psa. 27:4
Luke 11:20 The finger of God Ex. 8:19
Luke 12:48 Though he wist it not Lev. 5:17
Luke 14:7-11 Come up hither Prov. 25:6-7
Luke 14:20 I have married a wife Deut. 24:5 "Cheer up his wife"
John 12:8 "The poor ye have" Deut 15:11 "For the poor shall always with you" "never cease out of the land."
Men today and now in America as well as many other countries believe that they can wipe out poverty through socialistic practices. But the approach of the Mosaic Law to the matter of wealth and its distribution is both novel and realistic. It envisioned no perfect utopia in which all men would be equal in ability and possessions. On the contrary, there was a frank recognition of the perennial nature of the economic problem in a sinful human race, even under the beneficent rule of a kingdom of God on earth: "For the poor shall never cease out of the land" (Deut. 15:11). This is not a laissez faire form of economic fatalism, but simply one price which a society must pay for human freedom and men ruling and making the economic decisions. For, if men are to enjoy any satisfactory measure of personal liberty in economic affairs — men being what they are, widely different in disposition and ability —some will gain and others will lose. Historically, no perfect way has ever been found to reconcile personal liberty with complete economic equality; the reason being that the root of the problem is in the nature of man himself, and consequently individual action is never wholly predictable. The law of the historical kingdom accepted these facts of life and laid down its rule accordingly. Since men could not be left wholly free and at the same time be fully protected from their own economic follies and foolishness, certain provisions were established to safeguard them in the exercise of their economic rights and also to ameliorate some of the inequalities arising therefrom.
But politicians know that sinful men like to hear that their economic fallen nature can be overridden by their socialistic ruler ship; by the taxation of the rich and giving to the poor.
But when sin is properly dealt with fully and finally, politics are gone, and Christ rules and that was prophesied and promised in the O.T and Christ alluded to that fact.
But when sin is properly dealt with fully and finally, politics are gone, and Christ rules and that was prophesied and promised in the O.T and Christ alluded to that fact.
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