WHO IS THE WORD OF
GOD ABOUT?
The word
of God is concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Rom 1: 1-4) The
whole Bible is concerning God’s glory and righteousness manifest in the Lord
Jesus Christ in the salvation of his people. (Luke 24: 27, 44)
The Old Testament scriptures declare Christ
is coming and will succeed. God told the
devil that in the garden, “And I will put
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” (Gen 3: 15) The first
blood shed after the fall declared Christ and the work Christ would accomplish,
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” (Ge 3:21) Christ was
typified in Abel’s lamb by whose blood Abel found acceptance with God. Christ
is the Prophet like unto Moses. He is typified in the brazen serpent to whom
the people looked and lived. Christ is
the smitten Rock from whose stripes the water of life flows freely to his
people. He is the Passover Lamb whose blood God sees and passes over his people. In all the ceremonies it is Christ glorified:
in the Temple, the Lamb, the Blood, the Altar, the High Priest, and the Mercy
Seat. The prophecies are all written concerning him and what he would fulfill.
The Psalms are all written of him.
The
New Testament begins declaring Christ in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. We behold Christ made of a woman, made under the law. In Christ Jesus we
behold God in human flesh in the manger, growing up and living amongst his
people. We behold him calling his apostles and establishing his church. We
behold him working physical miracles which picture the spiritual miracles he
works in his people. Then we behold him laying down his life for his sheep on
the cross, obtaining eternal redemption for us. Then the message of the
epistles is that he is now reigning from God’s right hand in his church,
calling out his lost sheep through the gospel and he shall soon return.
Together with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, it is Christ sending his
preachers; it is Christ preaching in the gospel; it is Christ calling out his
people; it is Christ growing and preserving his people; it is Christ who will
return when the last lost sheep is called out!
Concerning all sinners in Adam, the message
of the book is, “All flesh is grass.”
Christ said, “The flesh profits nothing.” We are law-breakers by Adam and by our own
transgressions. Our nature is unholy by Adam’s seed. Our flesh will not and
cannot seek God; our flesh cannot understand the word of God or receive the
good news therein. So when we read scripture, hear it putting you and me in the
dust. Do not read it thinking God is
telling us how we can have life by our hand. He is not.
Concerning God in Christ the message of the
book is, “Thy God reigneth.” In eternity,
God chose a people, giving the whole work of their salvation into the hands of
his Son. Each of God’s elect enter the world sinners so we had to have our sin
put away by Christ. We had to be made righteousness for God to be just and justifier
and for God to receive us and this was by Christ. God gave the whole work to
Christ to accomplish. The message of the book is “[Christ] shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in
the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.” (Is 42: 4)