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you can't sneak in into this church building this is logistically a difficult place to sneak into and they all know we're talking about [Laughter] them great to have that feature too thank you wow all right it's good to be back together just a couple of announcements and then we'll sing and then Dr barcelos will come back up so when you leave please leave these uh plastic things at the table you can take out the little card if you want to keep it as a souvenir but they uh we hope to use those again and then before we leave the sanctuary if you had water bottles or any papers or anything in your Pew uh just pick that pick that stuff up and and put it in the trash or the recycling bin as as appropriate and then the bookstore is open at 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. it's called the Netherlands reform congregation it's on Broadway Street it's only about 5 minutes from here uh if you're local you'll probably know where it is if you're not local it's the address is 8920 Broadway 8920 Broadway they have a lot of books in there I think that that you'd be interested in they have a used section not always a lot but sometimes and then they have have books that have been out of print for many years I have found some gold in there stuff that was out of print and it was sitting on that shelf for what looked like you know decades so you might strike gold uh a lot of banner of Truth a lot of stuff that I think would be uh interesting for you to pick up so and then after this session I'm told that there's quite a lot of questions and uh some of them are really needing some thought and attention so perhaps after if doctors barcelos and renahan we can get together and just kind of go through some of that so that we know what's on the horizon well please take your book and you can turn to page 32 32 we stand as we sing and can it be that I should gain [Music] should be [Music] and theor love for me cross his for me to death [Music] Pur how can it be that my God die for meing love how can it be [Music] that my heart th GL [Music] ofl his [Music] Str in make the for to the of his Mercy all Earth adore that angel in no more [Music] amazing love how can it be that my heart for me he his so free so his gra humble himself so great is love and bl for all his chosen gra his Mercy all and free for all oh my God found [Music] me how be th my heart to th GL all my [Music] found and [Music] nature [Music] quickly I W the with [Music] my heart was free I went for and follow me amazing love how can be that my for me no now Jesus and all [Music] in my head and clo in Rock [Music] just I the Eternal thr and the ground to Christ my [Music] owning how can it be that my God th glor please be seated after Dr Barcelo lectures he'll pray and then there'll be a brief break and then we'll convene back in here for the Q&A session Jim right a hand your wife sent me a text make sure to take your pills and get to bed on time I'm not done it's cute that you're out this early in the morning we're proud of you cam cam thought it was cool that you had neither a cane nor a walker nor a wheelchair I'm going to get fired what's that I know he's my boss well since I'm going to get fired Jim so old no Jim's so old he wants babysat Nehemiah Cox Acts chapter 3 what we're doing is showing you that the apostles interpreted our Lord as the scope of the Old Testament and we should do the same now somebody made a comment earlier that um we can't do what Jesus and the apostles did because we're not inspired now we can't produce uh written products that are inherit and therefore infallible and inspired by the Holy Spirit but we can see the interpretive move moves of Our Lord the interpretive principles of the Apostles and seek to implement them ourselves if we don't use theirs who's are we going to use we're going to smuggle somebody else's in which we have to do in one sense because we're creatures with communicative cap capacities endowed Upon Us by God and so we share language the gift of language with with other creatures and the gift of understanding what a proposition is a sentence a subject a predicate a verb an object a direct up all those things but I'm talking about how how the Lord understood the Fulfillment of certain aspects of the Old Testament that's terminating on him uh that you don't get that from outside the Bible you don't go to a tree and conclude Jesus as a scope of the Old Testament you go to Jesus and he tells you and then you look at the apostles so we looked at Peter before the Pentecost just one incident where thou the Christ the son of the Living God blessed are you Thou Art Thou Simon bar Jonah for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father uh and now I'm going to go to Jerusalem and suffer and die and be raised from the dead God forbid it Lord get behind me Satan you know that was before Pentecost after Pentecost we looked at Luke 2 he did something different than Jesus at least Luke 2 Acts 2 he did something different than Jesus Jesus at least in reference to Luke 24 the two times and the John 5 passage we looked at he actually cites quotes Old Testament texts psalm 16 Joel 2 this side of the resurrection and entrance into glory of the Son of God arguing that this what I'm talking about Jesus resurrection and Pentecost is that psalm 16 and Joel 2 and then you remember in both citations one before and one after he puts it in a broader Old Testament context uh the Joel text he says in the latter days God said this would take place that's not in Joel but that's in another place of the Old Testament so he's saying hey guys when you go back there remember the teaching about the latter days Joel's prophecy was about the latter days we're in him because of the resurrection of Christ but he did that also with psalm 16 after psalm 16 citation in Acts 2 he puts it in a wider contact David being a prophet knew that God had sworn to put his son up uh on his throne you know prophesied this so he puts it in a a broader Old Testament context Acts 3 I want to look at verses 17- 26 this will be I'll race through this material because I'm going to skip uh other sections of Acts where this same thing is done by the Apostle Paul uh two or three times and go to 1 Peter 1 10-12 to cap off this lecture acts 3:17 yet now Brethren Peter to primarily Jewish audience again I I know that you did it in ignorance as did all your rulers but those things which God foretold by the mouth of All His prophets I think he's referring to the written products of the prophets that the Christ would suffer he has thus fulfilled repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord Lord and that he may send Jesus Christ who was preached to you before whom Heaven Must receive until the times of the restoration of all things which God which the times of restoration of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began okay if he's talking about God speaking through holy prophets we already know from the red letters he's talking about their written products right so the times of restoration of all things things God has spoken about them by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began where does the eschatology of the Bible start with the first writing Prophet whoever it is probably Moses Moses writes about eschatology some of you know that statement by arst boss in the scriptural in the revelation of Holy Scripture the eschatological is prior to the soteriological that sounds weird eschatology comes at the end did God prer offer to Adam a quality of life better than his created status could Adam have advanced his created status to a glorified status better than his beginning status most of you going yeah that's the Covenant of works so so that before Adam sinned God offered him eschatology that that's what the Vos thing means so the latter days have been spoken about and the sufferings and Glory of Christ have been spoken about by all by the mouths of all his writing prophets starting with the first one which will just assumes Moses for Moses truly said to the fathers the Lord your God will raise up up for you a prophet like me from your brethren him you shall hear in all things this is my beloved Son hear him remember that language whatever he says to you and it shall be by the way do you think the father was teaching us that the son was fulfilling the Mosaic prophecy in of Deuteronomy or of uh yeah Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18 there I think so and it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall utterly be destroyed be utterly destroyed from among the people yes and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow as many has have spoken have also foretold these days you are sons of the prophets and of the Covenant which God made with our father saying to Abraham and in your seed all the families of the Earth shall be blessed to you first God having raised up his servant Jesus send him to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities note first those things which God foretold by the mouth of All His prophets that the Christ would suffer he has thus fulfilled that this suffering of Christ Motif God foretold by the mouth of All His prophets when did God start telling us that the Messiah would suffer way early in the Book of Genesis most likely Genesis 3:15 was the first time note second by the way did Adam was a type of Christ did did Adam suffer before he sinned like something came upon him from the outside that altered his state of being this is weird God put him to sleep and took a rib out of him and the all the women are going yeah and then he entered Glory when the rib was formed into a woman uh God made Eve out of that rib God built some translations I think say that I was reading some old old guys I don't know who they are I think it was Gil and zanki and they said the septu it uses the same word there translated in English built in Genesis 2 in Matthew 16 I will build my church you go that's pretty wild read Ephesians 5 CU Paul gives us license to go look at Adam and Eve and see Christ in the church from Ephesians 5 so you're saying before the fall into sin there was some sort of Redemptive stuff being hinted at prior to the lapse prior to the fall yeah Paul said there was I'm speaking about marriage and yet Christ in the church and marriage as an institution with its first two partners predates the fall into sin so even prior to the fall into in things can be pointed to Redemptive realities I'm off the note so might as well keep going what what happened on the third day of creation stuff start coming out of the ground Friday Saturday Sunday what came out of the ground who Likens the resurrection to plants and harvest Jesus in John 12 Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 are do any of our old Heroes say that the third day when stuff was coming out of the ground now that we have the rest of Revelation was is actually pointing to the resurrection and you know the answer to that yes do you believe it well it could be at my church when I say it it could be means I think it is so this is this is huge Peter's saying let me tell you what the prophets were doing from the beginning by the mouth of let me tell you what God was doing he was speaking through the mouths of the prophets their written products and he was talking about these days is every single verse in the Old Testament a prophecy of New Testament days no is every single reference in the Old Testament pointing forward in the motif of pro a prophecy foretelling the Future No can the Old Testament for tell the future through persons not them speaking but their actions uh and their offices yeah does it do that way more than we're comfortable with second the times of restoration of all things God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began the latter days are spoken about in the Old Testament and have been inaugurated by our Lord's sufferings and Glory note third what the prophet Moses spoke about has come for Moses truly said to the fathers the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren him you shall hear in all things whatever he says to you and it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people God through Moses said he would come God through Peter says he has come note forth the days in which this Prophet would ad Minister were foretold days all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow as many as have spoken have also foretold these days what Moses foretold was foretold by all the prophets though in different words from Moses words they're all talking about the same thing using different words note finally the promis seed to bless the Earth has come God said to Abraham and in your seed all the families of the Earth shall be blessed the days in which we live are foretold days Days inaugurated by the sufferings and Glory of Our Lord days foretold by Moses days foretold by Samuel days foretold by all the writing prophets from the first one to the to the last one so by the time the old testament's finish our Lord comes on the scene it's all set up what is the Old Testament in one one sense setting the world up for this conference no the Old Testament is a slow but sure Crescendo and drum roll setting the world up for 1776 or how about this one 1677 you Jesus right the the Old Testament is a slow but sure drum roll and the crescendo of it is outside of it in its fulfillment in the historical Incarnation sufferings and Glory of Jesus of Nazareth that's the big deal of of the all the events of of the history of events the greatest one is in the fullness of time God sent forth his son God said he would do this God did it and then God tells us he's done it that's the Old Testament said he would do it the historical incarnation of Our Lord uh is a fulfillment of it the New Testament records it and then explains it for us everything hinges on that that's the big thing in the since creation uh what's the biggest thing since creation the inauguration of the new creation the whole complex of events we call sufferings and glory of the Son of God the next Grand Event it will be the second coming which by the way the first coming prepares for the second as well but the lecture is off the notes 1 Peter chapter 1 let's go to Peter writing now we've gone to Peter preaching twice now we're going to go Peter writing one 10- 12 Peter's a theologian right he's probably a little older now um probably been able to think Muse a little more about the hermeneutical lectures he heard from the Lord when he was in Jerusalem in act 64 it seems that they were the apostles didn't want to serve the widows not because they hated women that's a butler ISM H he would not because they hated women I can't pre I used to preach a little more like Jim I can't I put my neck out he does the you ever seen his Jim Butler bobble head he's got one he sat he sat in the front row I was going to say I'm sorry but I'm not sorry so in Acts 6:4 they didn't want to serve the women because they wanted to give themselves to the word in prayer most people think prayer and preaching prayer and preaching but there's you can give yourself we gave ourselves to the word word yesterday at a studio I think we're discussing theological things um so you think the apostles sat around Jerusalem all they did was preach and pray do you think they ever thought sat down and said I I think Matthew was writing putting together his gospel pretty early um do you think the apostles sat around say now it makes I get it you know I was reading Hosea I was reading so and so and I remember what the Lord said and they're writing stuff down and compar I think that was going on they didn't have computers and all that stuff but I think that was going on now we have a mature minded Peter okay so he's going to reflect on the the events that occurred in light of what the prophet said would take place things that I think he probably preached and maybe other Apostles to these the recipients of this letter who were dispersed from Jerusalem 1 Peter chap 1: 10 of this salvation the prophets have inquired this is the writing prophets and searched carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you searching what or what manner of time the spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified beforeand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow to them it was revealed that not to themselves but to us they were ministering the things which now have been recorded to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit Sent From Heaven I don't like the rest of that verse so I'm not going to read it it's weird isn't it things which Angels desire to look into actually that's one of my favorite sections I don't think I'll get to explain it much except if you read the Old Testament if you allow the Bible to help you interpret the Bible you have Angels looking into christological things like typological thing like The Mercy Seat you got looking down at it he thinks I can hear Spurgeon they're looking at it because it's the Incarnate Son of God typified and they learn of of the manifold wisdom of God by virtue of what God does in his Redemptive plan uh enacted on the earth Ephesians 3 Angels go to church every Lord's day and learn things and glorify God in light of it I think that's what's going on there but let's just walk through this text real quick note first the words this salvation at the first part of verse 10 those words refer to to that which Peter's uh recipients were enjoying the Salvation this side of uh death resurrection of Christ and Pentecost and what Peter enjoyed as well note second the prophets are the Old Testament writing prophets I already made that state that claim third the prophets were Scholars you ever thought of that they seem to be students here you're saying well they're just going and receiving what was that okay or have their secretary write it down or whatever I think there's something more going on here the prophets were Scholars they were students of the scriptures I think I said this already that searched carefully I think it best to take that second verb search carefully to refer to inquiring into Holy scripture concerning specific content here's what Gil says and searched diligently in the use of means by prayer what a novel idea the prophets prayed to understand their own products and the products of other product uh prophets by prayer and supplication now watch this one by reading the prophecies that went before the first time I read that I'm going finally somebody said what I was thinking then I'm going bummer somebody said what I was thinking cuz I am that Proud by the way I used to pre preach things i' never heard anyone say before like a long time ago I I try to never do that now and I tell young guys if so nobody said it don't say it because it's most likely not true but he said it by reading the prophets that went before now watch this by observing the types shadows and sacrifices of the law and by waiting upon the Lord for the inspiration of his spirit note fourth the prophets wrote about Christian salvation fifth the spirit of Christ was working in the prophets of Christ indicating the sufferings and Glory of Christ prior to the Incarnation of Christ you had mediatorial activity by the pre-incarnate son going on uh revealing saving knowledge to Men by virtue of which they were saved because they believed it and others would be saved in the future because when Jesus came on the scene they people believe the scriptures but not of the New Testament and they were saved by virtue of the revelation of the New Testament and the Earthly witness of of Our Lord the prophets six knew they were speaking about the future salvation to be accomplished by our Lord that's in verse 12 seventh what was reported to Peter's recipients through preaching is that which the prophets foretold and that which Jesus told his Apostles to preach and then lastly elect angels are students of the sufferings and Glory of Our Lord now what I have next is quotations from both Matthew P John Gil and I think John Brown um but I need to ask Pastor Butler it's 1011 when do you want me to finish so basically that means 1045 is okay now I just want you to listen to some of these oldtimers because I don't want to some of this might seem novel like I've never heard this before maybe you haven't okay maybe you haven't heard just those observations on 1 Peter 10 through2 but I didn't make the theology up I got help and see these are some of my friends that have helped me the most here's Matthew P's commentary on verse 10 the prophets those under the Old Testament out of whose writings the faith of the New Testament Believers is to be confirmed okay before the New Testament was written that's I think that's what he's getting at how could you confirm what you were believing to be according to Truth uh revealed Truth by God well you had to see if it was in line with the Old Testament because it's the only Testament that existed he says and whom this Apostle therefore mentions that he might strengthen the faith of the Christian Jews by assuring them that the the doctrine he had delivered to them was no new invention but the very truth of God revealed of old to the prophets this is that the apostles in Jesus didn't spin the Old Testament to mean something new they didn't reinterpret it in Light of Christ by the way you know how we say we need to interpret the Old Testament Light of Christ Christ pre uh interpreted it himself in light of the Old Testament first and I think the apostles did that as well this Grace he goes on revealed under the gospel the prophets foretold but in a more dark way the son of righteousness not being yet risen the Shadows were not gone and the light was but obscure now notice these words the faith of the New Testament Believers is to be confirmed out of the writings of the prophets of the Old Testament this is that um irenaeus on the apostolic preaching has anybody read it Isaac's humbly putting his thumb up Isaac's read it and you guys haven't read it this conference is over thank you for having me what is he doing there in part he does exactly what they do in the book of Acts he says let me prove Christianity to to you you Jews and he goes to the Old Testament he hardly ever cites the New Testament I don't know what the ratio is but he goes to the Old Testament how did Jesus prove himself to the be to be the scope of the Old Testament he interpreted it he didn't read the New Testament and say see right so um this will assure them that the doctrine he had delivered to them was no new invention but the very truth of God revealed of old to the prophets hey Dr Beal what's what's what's new in the New Testament members answer not much hey hey Dr augustan what's the first book of the New Testament the Old Testament this means that the events depicted for us by the New Testament concerning our Lord are to be interpreted in light of the writings of the Old Testament prophets events transacted things happened and the apostles are saying you see these things that happened the Incarnation the sufferings and the glory of Christ and the endowment at Pentecost all of that is contained in the writings of the Prophet prophets from the beginning of the world all the prophets we're talking about these days inaugurated by that one the scope of the whole which gives all glory to God how the Incarnation sufferings in glory of Christ also that which the prophets foretold they did in a more dark way the son of righteousness not being yet risen the Shadows were not gone and the light was but obscure but you know what happened subsequent Revelation made explicit what was implicit in anent Revelation right when you read if you just start at Genesis 1 you start reading get all the way through the law you get through the writings you get through the prophets at some point you're going to go there's things and Concepts that are woven together in different words by later writers then when you go to the New Testament you're going to go oh man he's saying he's the target the goal the bullseye of that and then you go after you read the New Testament you go back and read the Old Testament what happens aha I didn't see that the first time or the fifth time or the 50th time or the hundredth time I read that I didn't see it but the more you see it have you ever seen that Meme it's got all those whatever you call those things all the connections of the Bible within the Bible it starts in the Old Testament and some of those go from the old to the new some of them are in the new you know that the New Testament alludes to the New Testament that sounds weird the New Testament loes to the New Testament yeah remember when Peter acknowledged Paul's writings plural we're hard to understand like Pastor Butler's preaching sometime you're in the front row I only have one more o opportunity so subsequent Revelation makes explicit what his implicit and antecedent Revelation Matthew P again on 1 Peter 1:11 this shows that not only Christ had a being under the Old Testament before his coming in the flesh for if Christ were not there could be no Spirit of Christ interesting Christ had a being under the Old Testament according to his divine nature but likewise that Christ is God because of his inspiring the prophets with the knowledge of future things which none but God can do the Son of God had a being under the Old Testament before his coming in the flesh and was exercising his mediatorial office by revealing Redemptive knowledge to the prophets by the spirit of God from the beginning of the world on 1 Peter 1:12 we read the prophets under the Old Testament did by the spirit foresee and foretell Christ's passion Resurrection Ascension the effusion of the spirit the enlargement of the church by The Calling of the Gentiles but did not live to see their own prophecies and God's promises fulfilled what the prophets foretold would happen the apostles have proclaimed to us has happened pool on verse 12 the Angels desire to look into it seems to be an illusion to the cherubim that stood above the ark with their faces toward The Mercy Seat which was a type of Christ the Angels thus look into Mysteries of the Gospel as desires to see the accomplishment of them admiring the manifold Grace and wisdom of God in them Ephesians 3:10 and rejoicing in the salvation of Sinners which is the end and effect of God's revealing them here's John Brown on 1 Peter 1 these prophetic oracles were but imperfectly understood by those who uttered them we are not to suppose however that in uttering them their minds were entirely passive and that the Holy Spirit only employed their organs of speech but to express words to which they attached no idea they understood the meanings of the words they were the expression of thoughts communicated to their minds they knew that they referred to Great blessings to be bestowed on the church but as to the precise nature and extent of these blessings and as to the period of time when and the manner in which they were to be diso uh bestowed the prophets were much in the dark the prophecy came not by their own will it was not of self-interpretation either the event referred to or another explicatory Revelation was necessary to unfold fully its meaning the whole quote for that last sentence Pastor Butler's probably saying get out of there I'd like to preach that either okay so they're they're dark it's shadowy it's not substance um in one sense the Incarnate son of God's Shadow is cast backwards on the old test Testament it's shadowy information it's typological it's forward-looking it's a lot of the the doctrinal richness of it is implied by the narratives but not explicitly spelled out for us when the event prophesied comes and he says another explicatory Revelation along with the the Fulfillment of the event remember sometimes God does something then he raises up a pinman and explains what he did and later authors tell us more about the event that's narrated well sometimes God says he's going to do something like sufferings and Glory then he does it then he has pinman to explain it so what John Brown's saying is through the prophets God said he was going to do something the biggest thing ever become one of us to repair us and bring us back to Glory then God did it the event prophesied then God gave us an explicatory and explanatory Revelation the New Testament let's note a few things about Brown's comment these prophetic oracles were but imperfectly understood by those who uttered them not utterly misunderstood or not understood but imperfectly understood they were they would scratch their heads not knowing the full intent of now if they were on the scene in the first century I think there we'd be going whoa this is better than we ever thought you know we wrote we knew it was going to be great but now I see all kinds of connections and but they weren't a lot but I think they would have been something like that these prophetic oracles were but imperfectly understood by those who uttered them is what Brown says though the prophets had real knowledge of the meaning of their oracles their knowledge was partial shadowy obscure second Ponder the last words by Brown with the coming of Our Lord we have both the event referred to and another explicatory Revelation in the form of the New Testament so I'm going to finish maybe even early some implications for interpreting scripture in light of our study of First Peter one 1 Peter 1 first since the prophets studied the written products of other prophets and their own writings since they compared scripture with scripture in order to better understand scripture guess what we should do the same right uh the principle of the analogy of scripture and the analogy of Faith invented by the Protestant reformers true or false false where'd that come from the Bible who did it first the Old Testament prophets the prophets were students of the prophets though they produced text they also relied on other texts for the understanding of their own texts maybe they could have written and had a modum of understanding in terms of the typology that was going on and then they could have read just could have okay they were just thinking out loud here trying to fill in some time and then they could have subsequent to their written product read something they've already read and go oh my there's a connection there I wasn't really conscious of there's something larger than my written product that's going on here like God's ultimately in charge of the world and and of Revelation and and God can have events uh God can enact events do things and the meaning of those events are first well not explicated but the narration of the act of the event is given and then subsequent writers of scripture pick up on the first narration and draw out a bunch of theology that's not contained in the first narration of the event but the theology was always embedded in the event itself but we wouldn't know it unless God tell us by the way how do I know that Luke was the first creaturely Son of God on the earth God told me did you hear it Luke 3:38 Adam what did I say Luke Luke wasn't the first created Son of God I do that sometimes just to see if people are listening because four people I'm not going to look at you but four of you were asleep and that woke you up Steve just woke up by the way second Steve Steve writes the checks I better watch it second there's a built-in obscurity in the writings of the Old Testament prophets when what they wrote is true though details of its fulfillment remain dark until F further Revelation Comes This is clearly the case with the typology of the Old Testament the sacrificial system of the Old Testament and the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament when that to which the Old Testament comes comes it sheds light on the meaning of the that to which of the that to which document of the Old Testament when the antitype comes on the Earth it illumines the function of the type it tell it helps you understand how the type like when Christ comes we understand Adam a lot better we go okay now I get it types antitypes tell us more about the function of their types so further Revelation has come in the Incarnation sufferings and Glory of Our Lord along with the Divine recording of these events events and the Divine explanation of these events in the New Testament the dark sayings of the Old Testament now have the light of the coming of the Son of God incarnate Pentecost and its recording and explications in order to make explicit what was implicit in them once the event foretold comes and an expat explicatory Revelation along with it then we can go back and go aha aha aha wow those subsequent revelation makes clear what is contained in antecedent Revelation it does not reinterpret it making it mean something it did not mean but now does mean in the words of John Brown with the coming of Our Lord we have both the event referred to and another explicatory Revelation in the form of the New Testament note that the event referred to is the event that has happened in the words of the Apostle Paul when the fullness of the time came and the explicatory Revelation is what we call the new testament which Jesus Promised in the upper room to the apostles this means that in light of subsequent Revelation and the seent Revelation may now reveal to us more than we first thought possible if this is so and I think it is the theologians call it census plure the Fuller meaning persons places institutions EV and events and prophecies depicted for us in the Old Testament may contain a surplus of meaning which often awaits further Revelation to unveil see what I'm saying not new meaning the the meaning was always there but the meaning the surplus of meaning that that is the meaning that not on the surface but it's entailed in the ACT gets unveiled for us later so we we live in very privileged times we're in this side of the Cross resurrection of Christ in the New Testament this also means that the intent of these Old Testament phenomena is not limited to the conscious intent of the human authors I don't think if Moses and the prophets lived during the Days of Our Lord they would have sat there going that's not what I meant that's not what I meant that's not what I meant I think they would have said the Bible is the written word of God God's in charge God God does things and they're pregnant with theological meaning more than I ever thought Hallelujah this is utterly in line with what I was writing but it transcends it as well because this is a God thing so 1 Peter 1:10 through2 is an important text to ponder it not only relates the prophets of old to the accomplished salvation now enjoyed by Believers but it also has within it principles of scriptural interpretation applicable to present day interpreters so I hope that's been helpful scope of the whole to give all glory of God through what he does in the Incarnate Son of God who suffers and enters into his glory and brings many sons to Glory against all enemies and All Odds and nobody's going to stop them I'm a preacher how do we know that the prophets have been telling us from when from the beginning low in the beginning of the book book is it is written of me to do thy will oh God Paul tells us in Hebrews 10 that those words were on the lips of Our Lord when he was on the earth that's Psalm 40 Psalm 40 go read it David wrote it LO it is written me in the scroll or in the beginning Geneva Bible in the beginning of the book to do thy will oh God David's speaking on somebody's David's writing but somebody it's talking about somebody else's is speaking in Psalm 40 who is it speaking I think it's God the son about himself and what is he saying in God's book at toward the beginning of it it's written about me to do God's will of course you know what John Owen John Gil and John Owen how they interpreted that Genesis 3:15 is the first place it's written that the Incarnate Son of God would do the will of God by both suffering [Music] and triumphing and entering His Glory by defeating the devil and that defeat of the devil has entailments or implications for our well-being as well because he beat him by the way you ever read Luther on the irony of of the curse you got to the man through a woman I'm going to get to you through a woman without a man is is the Virgin birth there in 3:15 all our old Heroes said yes um and all God all the Genesis 3:16 through the end of the book of Revelation is just a footnote to all that pleases it all out okay remember Revelation is organic because it comes from God diverse human authors but God is its ultimate Divine author so he holds the whole story in cohesive Oneness that's why that's why the old gu saw Unity between the old New Testament because God is ultimately scripture is a written word of God and then it's Progressive it's going somewhere it's setting the world up God does things that end up setting the world up for greater things and then it's consuma in the fullness of time and then it's explanatory the New Testament so I hope that has helped you Christ is a scope of scripture the infallible rule of interpret ation of scripture is scripture itself the Bible's the written word of God we have the Bible to repair our the damage of that sin is brought in and the Bible does that by virtue of the sufferings and telling us about the sufferings and Glory of Christ when the scripture interprets scripture you have the word of God on the word of God and therefore infallible interpretation and subsequent Revelation often makes explicit with it's implicit and antecedent Revelation let's pray we thank you Lord for this last night this morning time to think together and to be challenged and learn new things and and have old things um brushed off and cleaned up and hopefully our minds are sharper and we'll better be able to both read scripture hear it preached and sing it um bless our time uh in the next session as well we ask in Jesus name amen amen