Prophecies Fulfilled Part 3

 

This week we continue to look at prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament and their fulfillment in the New Testament.

 

Jeremiah 31:31-33

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

The old covenant that God gave Israel through Moses was a covenant based in the law that God gave Israel. It was a covenant that the people of God continually violated. They sought to make the law everything and ignored the personal relationship that God desired to have with them.

 

The new covenant would not be an outward but an inward covenant written on their hearts.

 

Luke 22:20

And likewise, the cup after they had eaten saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”

 

Jesus establishes the new covenant through His blood that He shed on the cross. It is a covenant that is put into our lives at conversion by the Holy Spirit as He comes to indwell us.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is having a personal relationship with Jesus and having that relationship sealed in our lives by the filling of the Holy Spirit.

 

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey.

 

The Messiah would come into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. The king proclaiming Himself king.

 

Mark 11:7-9

 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

 

Jesus fulfilled this prophecy by riding into Jerusalem as He began the last week of His earthly life. As He rode into Jerusalem on the donkey, He accept the praise as the Messiah and their king.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is receiving and serving Jesus as your king.

 

Psalm 22 vividly describes a crucifixion. In a very detailed manner, it describes the crucifixion of Jesus.

 

It describes the crowd mocking Jesus.

It describes the physical effects of crucifixion on Jesus.

It describes the fact that Jesus is crucified with criminals.

It describes the fact that the soldiers gambled for Jesus’ cloak.

 

All four Gospels, Jesus’ crucifixion is recorded. The Gospels record:

 

The crowd mocking Jesus

The physical effects of crucifixion

That Jesus is crucified with two convicted criminals

The soldiers casting lots for Jesus’ cloak

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing that Jesus died for our sins and trusting in His death to completely pay for our sins.

 

Without Jesus’ teachings we would not know how to live in a righteous relationship with God.

Without Jesus’ miracles we would not know the power of God and how that power can transform our lives.

Without Jesus’ death we would not have forgiveness of sin and no guarantee of eternal life.

Jesus’ life and His death fulfill all the prophecies to show that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God. This empowers us to trust Jesus as Savior and Lord and commit our lives to obey, follow, and serve Jesus with our lives.

 

Believing and Following Jesus

by Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

Joe