When you’re in the Old Testament, wherever you are, ask yourself questions like, “What does this say about Jesus? How does this point to Jesus? Did Jesus ever quote or refer to this? What is the importance of this in the light of Jesus?” In the New Testament, finding Jesus in the Gospels is easy, of course, but making the Jesus connection in the Epistles is vitally important. Scholar N. T. Wright says that we ought to read the New Testament as if Jesus in the Gospels is giving us sheet music for a masterwork symphony and as if Paul and the other New Testament authors are teaching the church
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