Enjoying Jesus's Bible: The Old Testament for Christians

INTRODUCTION
Does the Old Testament Really Matter for Christians? The intro supplies ten reasons why the Old Testament is important for believers.

CHAPTERS

1. Reading Well: How Does Jesus Help Christians Interpret the Old Testament? Both Old and New Testament authors recognized that God gave the Old Testament for those connected to the messianic era and that only through Jesus does God enable people to read the Old Testament as God intends. Christians alone bear the spiritual ability to interpret the full meaning of the Old Testament, and Christ’s life, death, and resurrection provide a necessary lens for understanding rightly all God intends.
2. Seeing Well: How Does Jesus’s Bible Testify about Him? Along with reading through Christ, Christ’s glory is the end to which God gave the Old Testament. This chapter offers seven potential ways the biblical authors model reading the Old Testament for Christ. It concludes with a case study in reading Genesis this way.
3. Hoping Well: How Does Jesus Secure Every Divine Promise? In Jesus, Old Testament promises remain a vital means for Christians to grow in holiness and persevere through suffering. This chapter shows weaknesses in the way prosperity preachers approach biblical promises. It then offers key principles that guided the New Testament authors when appropriating Old Testament promises and shows how Jesus fulfills promises by maintaining them (with or without extension), transforming them, or completing them.
4. Living Well: How Does Jesus Make Moses’s Law Matter? None of Moses’s law is directly binding on believers today, but all of Moses’s law still guides us when read in view of how Christ fulfills the law. Specifically, Moses’s law still matters in the way it reveals God’s character, anticipates the saving work of Christ, and models what justice and love looked like in the age before Christ. This chapter evaluates alternative approaches to old covenant law, which includes confronting dangerous perspectives. It then supplies four case studies to show how Jesus maintains the law (with or without extension), transforms the law, or annuls the law.

CONCLUSION
Can Christians Really Enjoy Jesus’s Bible? Yes. This conclusion provides seven tips for doing just that.