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Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church QUOTES

Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church QUOTES

1 " Let us teach the whole counsel of God with a joy and passion that comes from above. And may times of refreshing and revival break out all over the land once again to the glory of God. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

2 " Let it be affirmed right away that the central theme of both the Old and New Testaments is Christ.[2] "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

3 " The cure for many of the ills afflicting the church and the seminaries of the day is to be found in the faithful exposition of the Word of God. Faithfulness in this area is the primary prerequisite for alleviating the deepest concerns currently held by the church and society. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

4 " Promise did not oppose God’s law, for both promise and law came from the same covenant-making God. Neither did law provide a separate means, not even a hypothetical means, for obtaining salvation. Instead, the law provided a means for maintaining fellowship with God. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

5 " the Pentateuch really intended to teach faith and belief in God and his promise. Obedience to the law, then, was the natural evidence that one had really trusted the Lord and believed his promise. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

6 " In the past, this approach has been known as the grammatical-historical interpretation of the text. The term “grammatical-historical interpretation” was used originally by Karl A. G. Keil.[7] The term “grammatical,” however, is somewhat misleading in our ears today, for normally we mean the arrangement of words and the construction of sentences. But Keil did not have this meaning in mind when he used the term. Instead, he had in mind the Greek word gramma, which approximates what we would mean by the term “literal” (to use a synonym derived from Latin). Keil’s grammatical sense was what we would call the simple, direct, plain, ordinary, natural, or literal sense of the phrases, clauses, and sentences. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

7 " Nowhere in the New Testament can one find evidence advocating that the writers went outside the boundaries of the Old Testament text to gain their view of the Messiah, or that they just rejected outright what these texts taught about the coming one. The “story” the early church told was the story of the promise-plan of God and the line of the “seed” that would end in David’s final son, Jesus. This was the gospel they proclaimed. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church

8 " Finally, it was “to anoint the most holy [One or place].” Since this expression is never used of a person, it probably is not a reference to the Messiah or even to his church. "

― Walter C. Kaiser Jr. , Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church