Both Point to Jesus

I LOVE how the Old Testament points Jesus over and over again.  It gives proof that the two testaments are one.  It gives proof that Jesus is God and that He 'lived' long before he stepped onto this earth.  It is evidence that the Holy Spirit is just as much God as the Son and the Father.  It shows how our awesome God had a plan from the very beginning to bring his people back to him.  And my saving grace of which I am ever grateful for:  It is undeniable the LOVE that our Creator has for us!

Ezekiel 36:26-27  "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.  And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws."

Jeremiah 31:31-34  " 'The time is coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.  It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,' declares the Lord... 'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.  I will be their God, and they will be my people.  No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,' declares the Lord.  'For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.' "

I love the last half of that verse!  Religious teachers who say you have to go through them in order to ask God's forgiveness don't know what they speak of.   Their understanding of what the cross did is greatly lacking!  To truly know someone the way God says that we can know Him (because of what Jesus did for us) is to be extremely personal with that person.

There are many other places in the Old Testament that speak of Jesus.  I want to dig deeper.  A greater understanding of who Jesus is and what he has done - AND realizing all the evidence that shows it is infallible - will only grow me deeper in my relationship with Christ.  This is my desire.