Scripture For Today:Jeremiah 14:11“Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.” The Last Will and Testament pt 4We have been looking at “our inheritance” through our Salvation in Christ. I talked about, in the natural, when some is preparing to die, they usually will leave a “Will.” And the legal name for that document is the “Last Will and Testament of” that person. We left off yesterday establishing that Jesus created a NEW WILL through the NEW TESTAMENT. But, does that mean He “did away with the Old Testament.”  I may have inferred that yesterday when I said that, in the case of a will, an “updated will” negates the power of the “old will.”  And that is true.The “power of the Old Testament” was established in punishment for sin with a continual offering of sacrifice to “keep the wrath away.” With the New Testament, Jesus became the FINAL sacrifice. We no longer need to continually offer sacrifices to defer God’s wrath. While the Bible is a unified book, there are differences between the Old Testament and the New Testament. In many ways, they are complementary. The Old Testament is foundational; the New Testament builds on that foundation with further revelation from God. The Old Testament establishes principles that are seen to be illustrative of New Testament truths. The Old Testament contains many prophecies that are fulfilled in the New. The Old Testament provides the history of a people; the New Testament focus is on a Person. The Old Testament shows the wrath of God against sin (with glimpses of His grace); the New Testament shows the grace of God toward sinners (with glimpses of His wrath).The Old Testament predicts a Messiah and the New Testament reveals who the Messiah is. The Old Testament records the giving of God’s Law, and the New Testament shows how Jesus the Messiah fulfilled that Law. In the Old Testament, God’s dealings are mainly with His chosen people, the Jews; in the New Testament, God’s dealings are mainly with His church. Physical blessings promised us under the Old Covenant give way to Spiritual blessings under the New Covenant.The Old Testament prophecies related to the coming of Christ, although incredibly detailed, contain a certain amount of ambiguity that is cleared up in the New Testament. For example, the prophet Isaiah spoke of the death of the Messiah (Isaiah 53) and the establishing of the Messiah’s kingdom (Isaiah 26) with no clues concerning the chronology of the two events—no hints that the suffering and the kingdom-building might be separated by millennia. In the New Testament, it becomes clear that the Messiah would have two advents: in the first He suffered and died (and rose again), and in the second He will establish His kingdom. Because God’s revelation in Scripture is progressive, the New Testament brings into sharper focus principles that were introduced in the Old Testament. The book of Hebrews describes how Jesus is the true High Priest and how His one sacrifice replaces all previous sacrifices, which were mere fore-shadowing’s. The Passover lamb of the Old Testament becomes the Lamb of God in the New Testament. The Old Testament gives the Law. The New Testament clarifies that the Law was meant to show men their need of salvation and was never intended to be the means of salvation.And that is the big difference. Under the Old Covenant, man continually TRIED to please God. Under the New Covenant,...

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