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INTRODUCTION We come now to the point of all the stories, which is the story of the Lord Jesus. This is a difficult story to tell, for two reasons. First, no story-teller or preacher is sufficient for the task. Jesus is not just another character in a row of other characters, and yet the limits of the…

INTRODUCTION In the Scriptures, Simon Peter is always listed first in any list given of the apostles. He is certainly a striking figure, and no attempt to tell the story of the new covenant community would be complete without him. It is hard to imagine him as anything but a large man, but whether he…

INTRODUCTION The story of redemption is not just a story about forgiveness being bestowed upon us in some heavenly transaction. It includes that, of course, but we must never forget how this salvation unfolds in the greatest story ever told. And that story includes the slaying of dragons, the fall of…

INTRODUCTION The name of Solomon is still evocative today. He is a striking picture of a man who possesses. His name is most familiar to us as a possessive adjective—Solomon’s wisdom, Solomon’s mines, Solomon’s wives, Solomon’s wealth, Solomon’s temple. And this is the basis of the story we must tell…

INTRODUCTION The apostle Paul has been slanderously reported as being the second founder of the Christian faith. After two thousand years, he is no doubt accustomed to the slanders by now, but this particular slander has been more effective than some of the others because of the grain of truth in it.…

INTRODUCTION In the latter part of the Old Testament, some of the characters and dates start to run together, and it is sometimes hard to keep the details straight. Today we will be telling the story of Nehemiah, along with some details about his contemporary Ezra. But before we can really tell this…

INTRODUCTION The last person we are considering in this series of messages is unique. The others we have treated as individuals. We will do this with Mary Magdalene as well, but we will also spend a good amount of time considering her typological significance. So we will treat Mary, but we will also…

INTRODUCTION Throughout the stories told in the Old Testament, we find three kinds of figures. All of them in various ways are types of the Lord Jesus, but no one figure portrays Him completely. We have kings, like David or Hezekiah. We have faithful priests, like Aaron or Jehoida. And we have the prophets,…