CHRIST DISPLAYS HIS FAITH IN O.T. DURING A CRUCIAL POINT

Christ Displays His own Personal Faith in the O.T. by Leaning Upon its Statements in the Great Crises of Spiritual Conflict

"Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."
 Matt. 4:1-10

 

 

At Stake was the Whole Plan of Redemption
Christ trusted the O.T. Truths concerning what was truth and what was a lie as well as a perversion of that Truth. America as well as all the other countries of this world has determined what they deem to be truth for they have a better politically correct version. The religion of their politics determines what is best.

Satan and the world that follows his lead has a truth that can be learned here. God can be tested but He cannot be tempted (James 1:13). The world has yet to learn that truth.
 

For this Person is the Son of God Who has Accessible ALL the Resources of the Infinite God

Yet in This Crucial Hour Christ Turns for help to the Truth of the Words of Deut. 8:3; 6:16; 6:13
"And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live."

"16  Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."

"Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name."

Do we Stand on These Things in the Great Crises of Life?
The Truth of the Infallible, Inspired Scriptures as Jesus Himself did.

The world doesn't so you can evaluate yourself before Christ does.

Christ Makes NO Distinction Between Various Parts of O.T.

 

Cf. Theories of Inspiration in previous article and following

 Contra - Matt. 5:18 All Scripture is true

"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

Luke 24:25-27 Rebukes disciples for failing to believe ALL THE Scriptures

"Then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself."

Adam and Eve were supernaturally and suddenly created by God; they did not gradually evolve from the animal kingdom. They were created physically; not just spiritually. They were created in the image and likeness of their personal, infinite, eternal Creator; not like animals which lack that image. They were created by God to exercise total dominion as "king and queen" over a perfect and complete world; they did not rule as subordinates to a fallen angel (Satan) in a world full of the marks of destruction, death or decay. They were not only unique in their physical perfection in all of human history, but were also the most brilliant human beings the world will ever know, apart from Christ, their incarnate Creator, until the day of glorification when all of God's people will be like Him when they see Him as He really is (1 John 3:2).
Surely the words of rebuke given by our Lord to the two on the road to Emmaus must be applicable to many Christians today: "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken" (Luke 24:25). Our basic problem today in the question of origins is not so much that we are ignorant of the theories and speculations of men. Our problem too often is that we know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God, and therefore deeply err in communicating God's message to modern man. May God be pleased to grant to each of us a renewing of our minds through submission to His special revelation of truth in His infallible Word, that we might prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

John 10:35 Any Scripture - here is a generalization.
"If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;"
Christ goes from the lesser to the greater. Went to an obscure passage to prove His point. Calls the Psalm the law proving it has Divine Legal Authority. Ps. 82:6 cf. Ex. 21:1 ff.
The Very Silence of Christ Reveals His Estimate of the O.T. An Argu­ment From Silence is Valid When a Statement to the Contrary Would be Presumed to be in Order

 Argument:
As much as he knew and said about the O.T., if he had any doubts about any part, surely we should find some trace of this doubt. Cf. John 14:2-3 "If it were not so I would have told you."
 Question: Did Christ have the same O.T. that we have in our Bibles today:External Evidence indicates that the Books were the same, though different in order.
cf. Josephus and other sources (ISBE - Canon of O.T.)

 Internal Evidence also exists:
cf. Luke 24:44 "Law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms." Psalms is the first book of the (Hagiographa) the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.

 cf. Matt. 23:35           Abel to Zacharias

"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."

Luke 11:51     Gen. as well as 2 Chron.
"From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation."

Abel, son of Adam, was thus the first prophet—that is, a man who supernaturally receives and then proclaims inspired words from God. Evidently, Abel was speaking God’s words to Cain, when the latter slew him in jealous wrath. The Zacharias mentioned is probably “Zechariah the son of Jehoida the priest,” who was stoned when he prophesied against the people under King Joash (2 Chronicles 24:20-24). Thus the period encompassed by the Lord’s statement was the entire Old Testament period, since this Zechariah is the last prophet mentioned as having been executed for his testimony before John the Baptist. There may have been others (in Matthew 23:35, Jesus called Zacharias the son of Barachias, rather than Jehoida) but, if so, their martyrdoms have not been reported in the Old Testament. Barachias is not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture. It is possible that either Barachias or Jehoida could have been Zechariah’s father, the other being the grandfather.

Argument: Zacharias appears in 2 Chron., the last book of the Jewish Canon. If Christ were sweeping from Abel to the last prophet there would have been a later one than Zacharias. But Where he is sweeping from the First Book of the Jewish canon to the last book of the Jewish Canon. This is inadvertent evidence.