Hey, church family. If you've got your Bibles, I hope you do. We're going to be in Luke

Chapter 24, and we're going to pop around a little bit this time. This last week in our all-staff

meeting, we did a little something different. We do these Zoom, all-staff meetings. You know,

there's some people in the room, but mostly it's around the city via screen. And we did an Ask Me Anything segment.

And one of the questions I got was from a very, very smart girl on our staff. I've known her for

10 plus years. She runs a whole lot of stuff in our spiritual formations world. And I don't think she was

really asking me a question as much as she wanted me to make a statement. And I'll reframe her

question because she had particular preacher's names in it, et cetera. But ultimately, the question was,

as New Testament followers of Jesus, do we need the Old Testament? I mean, if the whole

faith is founded on the resurrection of Jesus, do we really need the Old Testament? Do we need to

pay attention to it, obey the laws? Is it important to us as believers?

As believers in Jesus, can we distance ourselves or move ourselves away from the old covenant because we have the new covenant?

And this came from a book that she read and a very famous preacher had made some comments that had to do with that.

And so my answer ultimately is absolutely not. Absolutely not.

You see, the Bible, Paul says to Timothy, we studied this a couple of years ago, that all scripture is God breathed and useful.

And then he gives a list of things that it's useful for.

And when he's saying all scripture, he means all scripture from the very beginning to the very end.

And the idea that Christianity is founded on the resurrection of Jesus is true. It is true. However, we can't

understand who Jesus is and what his death on the cross and his resurrection means without really

understanding the law and the prophets. If you'll remember in our best sermon ever series,

Jesus said, I did not come to do away with the law.

I did not come to distance ourselves from what Abraham and Moses and the prophet said.

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