Would you take God’s word, please, and open to Matthew chapter 5. In a moment, we’re going to be reading from verse 17 and verse 17 and verse 18. Now, what I want you to see today is what Jesus thought of his Bible. Now, because what Jesus thought of his Bible is so very important to you, for the servant must be like his master.
Now, Jesus had a Bible. It was the Old Testament. And I want you to hear Jesus testimony to the Old Testament. Now, listen, folks. Only ignorance scoffs at the fact that Jesus Christ was an historical character. We know that beyond the shadow of any doubt. Now just who was this Jesus? The scholars are still scratching their heads and thinking we know because we have a Bible.
Now listen very carefully to this next statement. Jesus authenticates the Bible and the Bible authenticates the Lord Jesus. These rise or fall to together. I want you to see what Jesus said about his Bible. I’m talking to you about the time that Jesus was here on earth before the New Testament was ever written.
Jesus said verse 17, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you,” now folks listen. When Jesus says verily, everything that Jesus says is true, but when Jesus says verily, he’s saying pay attention. That word verily means truly or amen and amen.
Verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth shall pass, one jot or one tit shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. That’s what Jesus said about his uh Bible. Uh the he said, “I didn’t come to destroy the law and the prophets.” The law and the prophets were the name for the Old Testament. That’s what the Jews called and still call the Old Testament uh the law and the prophets.
Now, I want you to see what Jesus said about his Bible. I’m going to call it the Old Testament. Now, I want to lay three things on your heart today. I pray God that you will receive them. I pray God that he will rivet them upon your soul. I pray God he will etch them in your psyche. I pray God that you will never never never waver on these truths.
Think with me about three things in this passage that we see concerning Jesus and his Bible. First thought, Jesus fulfills the Old Testament in its predictions. The Old Testament is a book of prophecy. It is a book of predictions and it predicts the Lord Jesus Christ. Think not that I’m come to destroy the law of the prophets.
