Gary Millar: Liveblog #12 (Deut 12-26)

Big Idea:

Here's how to live

Separated and Consecrated

God's instructions for all of life?

How do we deal with such big chunks?

Nearly impossible to go through it line by line, so how do we get through it? Try all sorts of things!

Read short extracts with a commentary at the end.

Read 6 or 7 carefully chosen extracts that give people the big idea.

Try everything and anything, we just want people to be exposed to the text.

Route to Christ:

Fulfillment in Christ

Expose the problem

Which do you go, the "now you're in Christ live this way" angle, or the "Christ is the fulfillment of all this" angle?

Gospel angle:

Romans 12:1

What did a faithful Israelite believe?

My favourite 2-hour period of the week is the 2 hours on a Tuesday when I translate a chapter or so of John's gospel. Not least because it means I feel good about my ability to translate when it's really because John is the easiest thing in the world to translate!

Now, on to another cool discovery.

John 5:46(ESV)
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

However, the word 'believe' is both times in the imperfect tense. (ἐπιστεύετε) This means it is talking about a continuous action that happened in the past. The following translation would bring this out more:

For if you were believing Moses, then you were believing in me.

I reckon this is a fascinating little saying of Jesus. Is he essentially saying here that a faithful Israelite who was trusting in the testimony of the OT that pointed to Christ was in effect trusting in Him?

Very cool.