We find His testimony as to the Old Testament in Mark 7:13. Here He calls the law of Moses the Word of God. That, of course, covers only the first five books of the Old Testament, but in Luke 24:27 we read, And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself, and in the forty-fourth verse He said, All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and the Psalms. The Jews, divided the Old Testament into three parts--the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms--and Christ takes up each of these parts and sets the stamp of His authority upon it. In John 10:35 Christ says, The Scripture cannot be broken, thereby teaching the absolute accuracy and inviolability of the Old Testament. More specifically still, it possible, in Matt. 5:18, Jesus says, One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. A jot is the smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet--less than half the size of any other letter, and a tittle is the merest point of a consonant--less than the cross we put on a t,--and Christ here declares that the Scripture is absolutely true, down to the smallest letter or point of a letter. So if we accept the authority of Christ we must accept the Divine authority of the entire Old Testament.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:46:37 +0000
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