Ian McConnell has graduated into my favorite preachers list.
Man oh man. So good.
Take a listen – Reading Genesis Like Jesus Taught (Luke 24:13-47)
Some highlights
Jesus teaches how to read Genesis. He teaches us how to look at Genesis through the eyes He wants us to see. Genesis needs to be read with the full Gospel in view.
When Genesis was written, God’s intention was to point readers forward to the coming day of the Messiah; now that Jesus has come, we read the book through the eyes of fulfillment.
On the basis of Jesus instructions, I submit it is wrong for a Christian to ignore the Good news of Christ in the act of interpreting the Old Testament. We must not ignore the Gospel of Jesus Christ while reading Genesis.
After you watch a movie once, you know you can’t watch it a second time without knowing what’s been revealed the first time you watched it. You can’t go back and watch it again without knowing the things you watched the first time.
Now that we know what Genesis is pointing to, we should read it with “that’s what it’s talking about!” “That’s where it’s leading!” We must study it with the whole storyline of the Bible in view.
“Once Christ had fulfilled the Old Testament, a Christian cannot and should not resist seeing how he fulfilled it. The Christ event enriches our understanding of the message of the Old Testament.”
Jesus enables us to understand what we naturally are unable to understand. We do not naturally get it.
Theme of Genesis – God relentlessly pursues relationships with broken people. Relationship = Covenant – not because they deserve but because God is gracious.