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The biggest influence on Jesus’ beliefs, 39 “Bonus” Gospels, 39 books that not only language, decisions, spirituality, morality, describe how the world and church were and actions was the Old Testament. prepared for Christ, but are actually full of Brought up in a devout Jewish home by a Christ? Yes, in the Old Testament, the Son godly mother and father, he was immersed of God was present and active long before in the Hebrew Scriptures. He heard them, his incarnation, revealing himself to needy read them, memorized them, sang them, sinners via prophecies, pictures, precepts, obeyed them, quoted them, consciously and especially by his personal presence. and deliberately fulfilled them, and regularly taught them to others. No other WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT I’D FOUND 39 book had anything like this influence “BONUS” GOSPELS, 39 BOOKS THAT NOT ONLY DESCRIBE HOW THE WORLD AND CHURCH upon him. It’s so hard, WERE PREPARED FOR CHRIST, BUT ARE if not impossible, to understand much of ACTUALLY FULL OF CHRIST? what Jesus said and did without reading the book that shaped This is where Christ’s biography differs him more than anything else in the world. radically from every other biography. It’s like putting a few central pieces of When we read about his past in the Old the jigsaw together but not even trying to Testament we are not just reading about his complete the rest. If you complete the rest, background or his ancestors; we are reading you will see Jesus in a whole new light, about him. When he was encouraging the you’ll see how each piece of the jigsaw Pharisees to read the Old Testament, the connects so beautifully and necessarily reason he gave was, “They testify of me” with all the other pieces, even some of the (John 5:29). These books were speaking oldest pieces. about him, telling people about him, drawing people to put faith in him, even before he was born. “Moses wrote of me” said Jesus (John 5:46). That’s almost 1500 REVEALING MORE OF JESUS years before Bethlehem! Traveling even further back to 2000 BC, Abraham “saw” Second, the Big Picture reveals more of Christ’s day way down the road of faith Jesus to us. What if I told you that I’d found and rejoiced (John 8:56).
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