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Amazing Facts

From Cover to Cover

Doug Batchelor

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 4 – Joseph, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 1 – Abraham

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 2 – Isaac

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 3 – Joseph, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 5 – Joseph, Pt. 3

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 6 – Joseph, Pt. 4

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 7 – Moses, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 12 – The Book of Judges

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 8 – Moses, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 10 – Ruth

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 11 – Joshua

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 13 – Samson

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 14 – David

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 15 – The Prophets

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 9 – Job

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We're beginning a new series today that is dealing with the subject of cover to cover, Jesus in all the Bible.

This is going to be a great time I think for us to get a really good panorama of the Bible.

The whole Old Testament is a kaleidoscope that when you focus it, it gives us different facets and pictures of Jesus.

You know, Chameleons are some of the strangest creatures in the natural world.

They look a little bit like they were dropped from an alien spaceship.

1 of the strangest things about a chameleon, their eyes are located on like these rotating turrets and they have 360-degree vision around their bodies.

They can look forwards and backwards at the same time now if you try and do that you're going to look very peculiar their eyes can move independently of each other or when they see something they like, they can focus them in like binoculars, which is why they very rarely miss their prey when they shoot out their tongues.

Now the Bible stories and the Bible history, They're all true and relevant and accurate.

But God has done something miraculous in the Bible in that in the stories you find the gospel echoed through all the characters in the stories of the Bible.

Every story in the Bible you can find the villain, the victim, and you can find the valiant.

In our scripture reading, we gave some verses that helped bear this out, and I want to look at some of those, talking about the types and shadows that we see in scripture.

Now, when Philip first found Jesus, he then goes to Nathanael and what does he say?

We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth.

Moses in the law and the prophets wrote about Jesus?

I don't think Jesus appears till the New Testament.

Did they only write about them in a couple of prophecies like in Isaiah when it said the Messiah would come, or when Moses said, the Lord will raise up a prophet like me, Deuteronomy 18?

Or is it all the way from Moses through the prophets?

If you look in John 5, 39, how did Jesus tell us to read the Bible?

He said to the religious leaders, you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life, these are they that testify of me, the scriptures testify of Jesus.

Now there was no New Testament when Jesus said that, So if you want to find out about Jesus, we always think you have to go to the New Testament.

Now, we'll be reading more 1 Corinthians in another presentation.

But Paul here is talking about the exodus and the experience of the Jewish nation.

And he says in verse 11, all these things happen to them as examples.

And the word examples there is tupos in Greek and that word tupos means they are types, they are symbols, and they were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

I'm sure you know the story, it's only found 1 place in the Bible in Luke chapter 24 when Jesus rises from the dead and of course he appears to the women in the morning.

Later that afternoon before the sun goes down, 2 of the disciples that had been in the upper room, they leave, the name of 1 of them is Cleopas, and they are walking from Jerusalem down to their hometown of Emmaus, it's about 7 miles away.

And as they're walking down the road, they're very discouraged about the crucifixion, of course, and that Jesus' body is missing, and the women have had hallucinations of angels, and they don't know what to think, but they're very downcast.

And as they're walking down this road, a stranger comes and starts to walk alongside them.

The 2 trails merge, and he joins them on the trail, which is very common back then.

You're actually safer if you walk and travel in numbers.

And he's quiet, and he listens to them as they're talking about the devastation of what's happened with Christ's crucifixion and and eventually the stranger who is Jesus, they don't recognize him, he says what manner of communication is this that you have with 1 another as you walk and are sad?

And they said are you only a stranger in Jerusalem?

Have you not heard about these things that happen?

This has been the big thing in the nation and in Jerusalem over the Passover?

As though he didn't know and they said well concerning Jesus of Nazareth who is a man mighty indeed in word and how all the people believed in him and are rulers and turned him over to the Gentiles and they crucified him, and now the women say that he's been resurrected and this is the third day since all those things happened which should have been assigned to him right there because Jesus often said after 3 days he would rise and then Christ finally speaks, He said in Luke 24 verse 25 O foolish ones and slow of heart to believe and all the prophets have spoken Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and entered into His glory?

He was saying this was the plan from the beginning, and notice where he says it, beginning at Moses and in all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself, how many scriptures?

Now when Jesus made that statement I want you to know there wasn't a single solitary word of the New Testament written and I think most people miss most of Jesus that is found in the Old Testament as Paul went from place to place and he proved to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, what book do you think he used?

He used the Old Testament, and he saw Jesus everywhere and that's how the church grew through reading of Christ's first coming that was prophesied and illustrated in the stories and the teachings of the Old Testament.

Now I've done it before, as most pastors have.

We talk about the Bible and we tell people, this is your owner's manual.

And you've probably used the illustration, B-I-B-L-E stands for basic instructions before leaving earth and that's true but it's not just a list, it's not just an owner's manual this is actually telling us about somebody And you need to know that somebody because eternal life is knowing Jesus.

John chapter 3, John chapter 17 rather verse 3, this is eternal life that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ.

So we're going to be going through some of those now, and we're going to start at the beginning.

Speaking of Jesus, First of all, you notice right away that Jesus had a supernatural birth.

We're reminded every Christmas in those sermons.

There was something supernatural about that.

Both Adam and Jesus are called the sons of God.

If you look in Luke chapter 3, it talks about Enos who was the son of Seth, who was the son of Adam, who was the Son of God.

On Friday, naked, Adam started breathing.

Jesus, naked, breathed his last late on the sixth day of the week.

They both were, this is both on the sixth day.

Adam fell asleep, his side was opened, and his bride came out.

Jesus on the sixth day of the week, they opened his side with a spear, and in the blood and water, the church was born.

Adam was overcome by the serpent, Jesus defeated the serpent.

The dominion was redeemed through Christ's sacrifice and obedience the dominion of the world was lost through Adam's disobedience Adam is created and placed in Eden, Jesus is resurrected in a garden and you read there in John 19.41 now the place where he was crucified there was a garden.

First Corinthians 15 verse 21, for since by man death came, by man also came the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Now I'm not always saying here that Adam is a type of Jesus, but when you look at Adam and Jesus, if nothing else you'll see that they are juxtaposed in the Bible, 1 against the other.

Adam fell on the issue of diet in a garden surrounded by a thousand other good options.

Jesus overcame on the subject of diet in a wilderness where he was starving.

The first Adam turned from the Father in the Garden of Eden.

The last Adam turned to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The first Adam was naked and unashamed in the Garden.

The last Adam was naked and bore our shame on the cross.

The last Adam wore a crown of thorns, last Adam being Jesus.

The first Adam substituted himself for God.

The last Adam was God substituting himself for us.

The first Adam was the head of the old creation, the last Adam is the head of the new creation.

Romans 5 verses 18 and 19, Therefore as through 1 man's offense, judgment came to all men resulting in condemnation even so through 1 man's righteous act the free gift came to all men resulting in justification of life for as by 1 man Adam disobedience many were made sinners so also by 1 man's obedience many will be made righteous." Now, how many of you have noticed that because of the sin of Adam, you struggle with temptation?

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Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 1 – Abraham

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