John 5:39-40 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

1. God has given His church the ____________ so that we can grow in the ____________ and ____________ God has given us.

2. Jesus wants us to read the ________ ____________ so that we can come to know ____________ better!

3. The Old Testament points to Jesus through...

a. ____________ prophecy;

b. the ____________ and ____________ as previews of Jesus;

c. the ____________ of God's patient ____________ towards sinners ____________ us for the coming of Christ.

Scripture Readings
Acts 3:11-21
1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24:36-49

Take It With You!

Here are some further thoughts to help you contemplate and celebrate Christ's Easter victory over sin, death, and the devil!

If you would interpret [the Old Testament] well and confidently, set Christ before you, for he is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it. Make the high priest Aaron, then, to be nobody but Christ alone, as does the Epistle of Hebrews which is sufficient, all by itself, to interpret all the figures of Moses. Likewise, as the same epistle announces, it is certain that Christ himself is the sacrifice - indeed even the altar - who sacrificed himself with his own blood. Now whereas the sacrifice performed by the Levitical high priest took away only artificial sins, which in their nature were not sins, so our high priest, Christ, by his own sacrifice and blood, has taken away the true sin, that which in its very nature is sin. He has gone in once for all through the curtain to God to make atonement for us. Thus you should apply Christ personally, and to no one else, all that is written about the high priest.

Martin Luther, Preface to the Old Testament