# 106 Don't Throw Out the Old

Joh 5:45 "Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you trust. 46 "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

We have spent the last couple of weeks in the courtroom of God. I don’t know if you noticed this or not, but since verse 19 of this chapter we have heard words like, “life and death,” “judge,” “judgement,” “granted life,” “execute judgement,” “witness,” “testimony,” and today, we hear the word, “accuse.”

This is an important part of Scripture in that it should impress upon all who read or hear it, that one day, there will be a judgement. There will be time spent in a holy courtroom!

In this scenario, a solid case is made for the deity of Christ, and a plan is put forth by which all men can escape the judgement! A plan that guarantees acquittal! “He who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgement.” (Jn 5:24)

In verses 45 through 47, Jesus assures us that this courtroom scene just depicted in nothing new. The plan of salvation has been present in the writings of Moses all along. Sometimes, even today, we have a tendency to overlook the gospel according to the Old Testament. How foolish in light of what Jesus says here!

If you do not believe Moses writings, how will you believe My words?” And there are plenty of other places where Jesus emphasizes the importance of understanding what the law and the Prophets say about Him! In the story of the rich man and Lazarus, (Luke 16:19-31) The rich man begs Abraham to send Lazarus back from the dead to his father’s house that his five brothers would not suffer his fate in hell, and Abraham replied, “They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.”

After His resurrection, Jesus walked with some disciples on the road to Emmaus and beginning with Moses and the prophets, He expounded to them all the Scriptures, the things concerning Himself. (Luke 24:27)

If the New Testament were never written, we would have enough evidence to believe in Christ and pass from death to life. It has been said that the Old Testament is the foundation, the New Testament is the superstructure. A Superstructure is impossible without a sure foundation! Augustine summed up the writing this way: “The new is in the old contained, the old is in the new explained.”

Praise God for His written word, old and new! Believe it all! Hear the words of Christ! Believe in the One who sent Him and pass from death to life!