A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament Quotes

“Don’t ever be ashamed of being thought of as being tied to Holy Scripture. Don’t ever be ashamed of exalting Holy Scripture. You’re following in the steps of Jesus who bound himself to the Word of God, and insisted by his obedience to fulfil what was written of him.”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“only the perfect can bear the sins of another.”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“And why did Caesar Augustus make just such a decree at that precise moment? Bible in hand, we answer, because Micah had said that the Messiah must be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). So”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“Seven titles for the Word of God from Psalm 1 (NKJV): ‘law’ = ‘teaching’, the word to instruct (v. 1); ‘testimonies’, what God ‘testifies to’ as his truth and the truth about himself, the word to reveal (v. 2); ‘ways’, the word as the guide to characteristic life-style (v. 3); ‘precepts’, the word as instruction for the details of daily life (v. 4); ‘statutes’, from the verb ‘to engrave’, the word in its permanency, engraven in the rock (v. 5); ‘commandments’, the word given by God for our obedience (v. 6); ‘judgments’—as of the authoritative pronouncements of a judge; the word expressing what the Lord himself has ‘decided upon’ as truth to hold and life to live (v. 7).”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“Jesus did not say ‘I thirst’ because he was thirsty, but ‘in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.’ Dare”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“With our New Testaments in hand, we look back and see, in embryo, what would be the full reality, the perfection of the flowering, in Jesus. The”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“He found himself in the Old Testament Scriptures. He understood himself, and his role, his vocation, and his future from his Bible. He was content, later, to say: ‘The Son of Man goes as it is written of him’ (Matt. 26:24). The pathway was laid down in the Word of God, and he set himself to walk in it.”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“In the Old Testament, in God’s revelation though Moses, as in the New Testament, in the divine Covenant, the Law is not a ladder of merit we attempt to climb in order to win God’s favour; it is God’s pattern of holy living given to us because, by redemption, we are already in his favour. It is not a way of salvation by works of obedience; it is a pattern of obedience divinely provided for those who have been saved by grace.”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament

“Are you interpreting the ‘visual aid’? Egypt first, then Sinai; Passover first, then the giving of the Law; the divine work of grace first, then the life of responsive obedience, redemption/salvation first, then walking with God in his appointed way of holiness.”
― J. Alec Motyer, A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament