1. Bridging the Testaments

2. The Bridge Exists
Luke 4:17-22
And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

3. The Bridge Exists
Luke 4:17-22
Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

4. The Bridge Exists
John 5:39
You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.
John 5:46-47
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

5. The Bridge Exists
Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

6. The Bridge Exists
Acts 17:2-4
Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ."

7. The Bridge Exists
Acts 26:22-23
Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come — that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."
Acts 26:27
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do believe."

8. The Bridge Exists
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.

10. The indispensible need for both
The Bridge Between the Testament Teaches Us…
The indispensible need for both

11. The Bridge Between the Testament Teaches Us…
One must view the New Testament through the lens of the Old and the Old Testament through the lens of the New

12. That the space between them makes the fulfillment even more convincing
The Bridge Between the Testament Teaches Us…
That the space between them makes the fulfillment even more convincing
Abraham
2000 BC u
Moses
1500 BC u
David
1000 BC u
Jeremiah
600 BC u
Jesus
0-33 AD u
-400 Years- u
Septuagint
(Greek Translation)
200 BC

13. Let us see the great heritage extended to us in the
Hebrew scriptures and the
great hope offered to us
in Christ and His gospel
I Peter 1:10-12