Episode 3: Why Did God Write the Bible?

The subject of the Bible is a Person named Jesus

The Message of the OT is “Yahweh is Lord:” the message of the NT is “Jesus is Lord” (Frame 16)

 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. (John 5:39–40)

The point of the Bible is for us to worship Jesus

“Our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation.” (Piper, 41)

So read looking for Jesus’ glory and Jesus’ ways.

Jesus is the subject; Worshippers from every tribe, tongue, and nation is the goal.

The biblical phrase for trembling before God’s glory and walking in his ways is the “Fear of the Lord.”

God is working this purpose through the human author’s intention, so we need to find the human author’s intention

Ephesians 4: Paul wanted us to work together with our different gifts. That is part of revealing Jesus’ nature and ways, and part of making a people of every tribe tongue and nation who worship him

2 Sam 23: David wants those in authority to fear God and wants people to long for a coming ruler (which will be the Lord himself). We can see in it the glory of Jesus’ coming rule, the wisdom in his ways for leaders, and the way he wants those in power to conduct themselves.

Bibliography:

Frame, John M. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2013.

Piper, John. Reading the Bible Supernaturally: Seeing and Savoring the Glory of God in Scripture. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2017.

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