the Third Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Acts 10:43
‘To him give all the prophets witness’
Read John 5:30-47
The Bible is a book with one message and purpose. The message of the Bible is redemption by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and its purpose is the salvation of sinners for the glory of God.
This is the thing I want you to see: the singular purpose of Holy Scripture is to reveal the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible was written to show us our blessed Savior. This fact was beautifully illustrated by our Lord himself when he came into the synagogue at Nazareth. He opened the book of God and read to the people from the prophecy of Isaiah. Then he closed the book, laid it down and, as the people waited to hear his sermon, he said, ‘This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears’ (Luke 4:18-21). Sitting before them, God in human flesh, our Savior said, ‘I am the one of whom the prophet spoke!’
The risen Christ met two of his disciples on the Emmaus road and walked with them. As they talked together, he opened the Scriptures to them and caused them to understand that all the Scriptures spoke of him (Luke 24:27; Luke 24:44-47). When Philip the evangelist met the Ethiopian eunuch, the eunuch was reading fromIsaiah 53; Isaiah 53. Beginning at that place, Philip ‘preached unto him Jesus’ (Acts 8:35). When Peter stood up and preached to the Gentiles at Caesarea, he said, ‘To him [the Lord Jesus Christ] give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins’ (Acts 10:43). When Paul came to Thessalonica, ‘As his manner was, [he] went in unto them [in the synagogue], and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ’ (Acts 17:2-3). In the book of Hebrews, when Christ came into the world, we are told that he said, ‘Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God’ (Hebrews 10:7).
Jesus Christ and him crucified is the sum and substance of Holy Scripture.
