We gain insight into the loving nature of the God who inspired this Song, and are made able to love him in return although we constantly require his fidelity, protection, and undeserved love.
Christ in All of Scripture
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The salvation God has accomplished in Messiah Jesus is the fulfillment of all that was prophesied in the Old Testament.
In a variety of ways, the prophecy of Nahum brings home the gospel and carries along the redemptive story that culminates in Jesus Christ.
The “gospel according to Daniel” comes in glowing revelations of the power of God to redeem his people, overcome their enemies, and plan their future.
The clear contrast between God’s covenant-keeping and Israel’s covenant breaking, particularly among Israel’s kings, is perhaps the most important theme in the book of Kings.
As the last books in the Hebrew Old Testament, the books of 1–2 Chronicles prepare God’s people for the arrival of Jesus.
Like the book of Job, this book presents important gospel truths for people who encounter difficulties that seem incomprehensible.
In four ways, the Old Testament book of Amos is essential for a robust understanding of the gospel.
God deals with sinners in one of two ways: deserved justice, or undeserved grace.
The gospel—the good news of what God has done for sinners through Jesus Christ—permeates 1 Corinthians.
As an oracle of judgment, Obadiah presents unique challenges for gospel application.
People are rebellious, even God’s people, but God himself insists on doing his people eternal good anyway.
Writing to people who were discouraged by living, after the exile, Zechariah encouraged them to look forward to the day when the Lord would act once again.
Haggai is all about the ongoing work of building up the people of God, a work that is primarily God's.
In typical prophetic form, Joel gives his readers both the bad news of God’s judgment and the good news of his promised deliverance.
Second Corinthians is filled with the astounding paradoxes of the gospel.
The Gospel of Mark is presented in a way that demonstrates the fulfillment of Old Testament promises.
If there ever was a clarion call to rejoice because of the gospel, it is Paul’s epistle to the Philippians.
While Hebrews clearly makes its own unique contribution, it joins other New Testament books in exulting in the same amazing grace in Jesus that forms the Bible’s main message.
Paul’s second letter to Timothy is a call to endurance amid opposition and suffering for the sake of the gospel.
James is a beloved epistle, eminently practical and full of vivid exhortations to godly living.
Peter writes to encourage a “mixed bag” of believers with dear but easily forgotten truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The faithfulness needed to combat wickedness requires an experience of God’s powerful grace in the gospel.
The word “gospel” never appears in the letters of John. Yet it is hard to imagine a book more intimately connected to the gospel of saving grace in Christ Jesus than John’s first letter.
In 1 Thessalonians, Paul cannot stop rejoicing that the gospel came to the Thessalonians in word, in power, and with full conviction by the Holy Spirit.
The book of Titus is a letter from Paul to a young pastor, urging him to lead his people deeper into the gospel.
Where is the gospel in Jude’s epistle? In such a compact space, we actually receive a potent portrait of the gospel.
The thrust of 1 Timothy is that godliness is central to the Christian’s continuing in the gospel and the church’s proclamation of the gospel.
The central gospel themes in Paul’s shortest letter are surprisingly substantial.
Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians is a letter of comfort to those eagerly awaiting the promised return of Jesus Christ.