ROMANS 1:2 THE PROMISE Long before Christ was born in Bethlehem, His Person and coming was foretold. The Old Testament scriptures were given that we might learn of our Lord Jesus Christ. The people of the Old Testament times were able to catch glimpses of the One who would come, right from the first prophecy made concerning Him in the Garden of Eden at the time of man's fall into sin and its wages. Not only the prophets but in all the holy scriptures, there are unfolded "things concerning Himself." The two who walked the road to Emmaus learned in all the scriptures where Christ was revealed to those who seek Him. Those scriptures are holy because they can be counted on to contain the truth. The promises made in those prophecies will all be fulfilled. Many have been already and all will be in God's own good time.
That is why it is important that we give attention to the Old Testament scriptures. Not only do we learn from those people of faith, we also learn from the mistakes of the people of God in those times. "These things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition..." We are well advised when we read through the books of Moses, the history of Israel, the poetic books, the psalms and the prophets to learn all we can about the character and plans of the Lord God, so we can better serve Him in the work of the Gospel. As the New Testament unfolds to us the Gospel of God, we learn the importance of our work in furthering this message to the world of lost souls.
When God makes a promise, you can count on A time when it will be fulfilled. All the skeptics and unbelievers' doubts will be gone - And the mouths of false prophets all be stilled - When the Lord will be revealed in His glory. And people will look on Him whom they scorned. They will face the consequences of denying His-story, And will join voice with all those who mourned.
It is not that they couldn't have been saved - But they refused on Christ to believe. God wasn't impressed with the road their good intentions paved - He wanted them His Son to receive. To not believe the Holy Scriptures of truth - Is to deny the Word of the Holy God of heaven. When we make them out to be of little worth; We bypass the way our sins can be forgiven.
"Holy God my Father, when I consider the power of Thy Gospel to change the lives, hearts and the destiny of those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, it gives me a sense of unworthiness to be put in trust with the Gospel. Even last night when I heard of another man who was in the recent Gospel meetings professing to be saved, it moved me to praise. But it also impressed on me the importance of what we have been called to. Please keep me humbled and trusting in Thee alone to bring eternal blessing to those who trust Thy Son through the preaching of the Gospel to which we have been entrusted. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."