living waters wednesday teaching c. holoman-3 october 1, 2008
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Living Waters Wednesday Teaching C. Holoman-3 October 1, 2008. Continuing from the Book of Hebrews. Hebrews 2:5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Hebrews 2:5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
Hebrews 2:6 It has been testified
somewhere, "What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him? 7 Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast
crowned him with glory and honor, 8 putting everything in subjection under his feet." ..
From Psalms 8:4-6 Greek LXX
Ps 8:5 Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels,.. Greek LXX as
quoted in Hebrew 2:8
Ps 8:5 Yet thou hast made him little less than God,.. Quoted from Hebrew text which
was the source for the Greek LXX.
Psalm 8:4 what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? 5 Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor. 6 Thou hast given him
dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things
under his feet,
NOTE: That although onlyPs 8:4-6 is quoted in Hebrews
2:6-7; the whole of Ps 8 is brought into the Hebrews picture.
(could read) Thus the Old Testament passage is foundational to understand the New Testament reasoning and conclusion in Hebrews 2:8-9.
My book project…Dealing with the resistance when
New Testament material is perceived as irrelevant Old
Testament material.The basic question is: How
should we relate the Old Testament to the New Testament
My problem During the life of Jesus, the ‘Acts church’ and the time period when
the core of our New Testament books were being written, the feasts of Passover, Pentecost,
Booths and others were observed at their maximum
historical intensity.
Let me say that again: The feasts of Passover, Pentecost,
Booths and perhaps others were more intensely celebrated in New
Testament times than Old Testament times. And evidence points to the early church being genuinely involved. They belong as much to New Testament times as to the Old Testament times.
My problemYet when I present the ministry of
these feasts, I encounter feelings that the feast are
‘Jewish-another religion’ as opposed to New Testament,
hence a dimension of biblical Christianity.
My problem The basic question is: How
should we relate the Old Testament to the New
Testament? It is not that I don’t know the answer, It is that I still struggle with overcoming the
resistance to the answer.
The way in which the Old Testament is absorbed in the
New is the logical end of a process initiated by the Old Testament itself, and that its teaching is to some extent
repeated in this final reinterpretation.”
“For the first Christians the Old Testament was not the official writings of a religion; it
was holy scripture; Therefore the only possibility is to ask whether the Old
Testament begins to speak with a new voice in the light of Christ’s revelation.
Down to the present day the Churches in their Confessions have put the Old Testament on the same level as the New as a book which
contains a God-given revelation; no differences is made between either the
inspirational source of the Testaments or their character of being the absolute doctrinal
standard.”
In view of the way in which the Old Testament and New Testament saving
events interpret one another, the process is perfectly consistent. It is simple fact that Christian faith can express itself, and indeed elucidate itself, in material drawn from the Old
Testament as well as from the New….It is as if Christ himself were entering in the Old Testament events, expanding their
meaning, and extending their reference.
But it is equally true the Old Testament saving events provided
an understanding of the saving event of Christ’s coming. Each
Testament legitimates the other. The Old Testament is to be
understood in the light of Christ, and we need the Old Testament to
understand Christ.
I suppose it is enough to say the Christianity has never cut itself off from the Old Testament. Attempts to do so
have not succeeded in dimming the illumination which Old Testament
concepts bring to our understanding of Christ. Moreover, these concepts are
unconsciously preserved in our Christian confessions of faith and
theology.
The Old Testament may still be heard in our hymns, our church services, and not least in the New Testament itself. In this
respect the Old Testament heritage in present-day theology is probably much greater than people are aware. But the
strongest resistance to any idea of abandoning the Old Testament comes
from the New Testament itself.
Acts 20:27 for I (Paul) did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole counsel of God. …
. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace,
which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance
among all those who are sanctified.All this before there was any text we could call
the New Testament.
Hebrews 2:8 putting everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting
everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do
not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we see Jesus, who for a little while
was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the
suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.