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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

One of the most helpful descriptions of the Bible can be found in the prologue of Sally Lloyd-Jones' book, The Jesus Storybook Bible.

It explains that although the Bible contains laws for moral living, it's not mainly a book of rules. And though it

tells of great men and women who did great things for God, it's not a book of heroes either.

Instead, the Bible is a story about one hero, a hero whose name is whispered in every biblical

story. Now, during the events of Holy Week, the hero's name is shouted, but we ought not miss the essential connections.

Beginning with Palm Sunday, through Monday Thursday, Good Friday, and finally Easter Sunday, the story of Jesus is fully told as the culmination of the entire story of Scripture.

Now, we have the benefit of seeing this, a benefit the disciples did not have.

For Christ's first followers, his words at the Last Supper, his arrest, his trial, and

crucifixion were all aspects of a bewildering defeat.

It's only in retrospect when Jesus opened the scriptures to them, first on the road to

Emmaus and later in the upper room, that they understood, and even then they did not understand

fully.

It was after the ascension of Christ that a restored Peter could stand before Jerusalem. that they understood, and even then they did not understand fully.

It was after the ascension of Christ that a restored Peter could stand before Jerusalem and proclaim the full punchline of Holy Week.

Let all of the House of Israel therefore know assuredly, he said,

that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom he crucified.

And the rest of the New Testament is an

account of what the Holy Spirit continued to reveal about Christ's presence throughout all of

Scripture. For example, Paul recognized Jesus in the Bible's very first chapters, identifying

him as the last Adam. He contrasts the two men as representative heads of the human race. The one failed and brought

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