Sometimes the preposition the New Testament uses is the preposition into, we believe, into Christ.

And this is the fundamental thing that happens to us when we're born again, when we're converted to Christ,

our faith unites us to Him, the Spirit unites us to Him.

And in that way we are bound to God.

And underneath all that is the fact that in everything Jesus did, He was representing us.

And because He was representing us, everything He has done is really ours.

None of these things are what we work up in ourselves.

All of these things we draw down from our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is everything and He fills our nothingness.

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Have you ever heard a skeptic say something like this?

Some events in the Old Testament that are recorded there are utterly incompatible with the character of God that is revealed to us in the New Testament.

The God of love that is shown to us in Jesus certainly would never just kill people for a simple error at the altar.

In the Old Testament, God often seems quick to display His justice, striking people dead for what appears to us, the smallest offense.

How does that square with the God we read about in the New Testament?

Dr. R. C. Sproul addresses that question today here on renewing your mind as we feature His classic series, The Holiness of God.

As we continue now with our study as a holiness of God, we want to look at that aspect of God's holiness that I think perhaps provokes more consternation than any other dimension.

And that is the relationship of God's holiness to His justice.

We've seen already that so much of what we know about God's character is revealed to us in the pages of the Old Testament.

And I think one of the reasons why we struggle so much with the concept of justice and of God's wrath, for example, is because we don't spend a lot of time anymore at scenes in reading and studying the Old Testament.

We act as if Christianity was based merely on the New Testament, as if the New Testament could stand alone independent from its roots, which is a serious misapprehension there.

If we were to understand the New Testament, we first have to have some knowledge of the Old Testament because all of the drama that takes place in the Ministry of Christ, for example, is so intimately tied to and related to what has happened in past history that is recorded for us on the pages of the Old Testament.

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