This is the hiking map for our trekking journey. Laden within each trailhead and its extensions are golden nuggets of truth that you
can pick up to store into the treasury of your heart.
Jesus Himself said in Matthew 6:19-21,
19 “Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on
earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal; 21 for
where your treasure is, there your heart [your wishes, your desires; that
on which your life centers] will be also.
God Himself has provided evidence of the identity of
the Promised Messiah. When we believe in
Jesus of Nazareth to be the beloved Son of God in the flesh to fulfill His
Messianic mission based on the evidence God has given, that faith will be
founded on the immovable and unshakeable foundation of the written Word of
God. When that happens, nothing shall
ever separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord as
stated in Romans 8:38-39.
In this this connection, I would like to bring
your attention to Hebrews 1:1-2. In that passage of scripture, it is stated
that God had spoken to the world through the voices and writings of various
prophets in many separate revelations and in many ways. Each revelation set forth a portion of the
truth. But in these last days, He has spoken with finality in His Son, Who came
in the flesh as Jesus of Nazareth. From John 1:17, we are told that:
“Grace and truth came in the
Person of Jesus Christ.”
Therefore, we can see that the prophets of old actually wrote about
the Son of God coming in the flesh. The
prophet Isaiah was one of those prophets.
When the beloved Son of God walked the earth in the flesh as Jesus of
Nazareth, He mentioned in John 5:36 and John 10:25 that the very works and
miracles He did were His credentials and the evidence testifying that He was
the One Whom the prophets wrote about. Jesus Himself revealed that He came to fulfill what was written about
Him on numerous occasions. For example:
Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or
the Prophets (collectively the Old
Testament, italics mine); I did
not come to abolish but to fulfill;
For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth
pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law (Old Testament, italics mine) until all is accomplished;
All things which are
written through the prophets (Old
Testament, italics mine) about the Son of Man, that is the Messiah, will be
accomplished;
All things which are written about Me in the
Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms (collectively Old Testament, italics
mine) must be fulfilled;
Jesus, knowing that all things had already
been accomplished to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I am thirsty”; and
After He had fulfilled
everything that was written about Him in the Old Testament, He cried out, “It
is finished!”
Everything that Jesus
had done during His earthly ministry was to fulfill all that were written about
Him in the Old Testament. Those works were His credentials and the evidence
declaring that He is the Messiah; the Promised Seed mentioned in Genesis 3:15.
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