Welcome to the Jesus Image podcast.

Okay, what is the Bible about? Who knows?

Okay, how do you know?

How do you know, Jazz?

Jesus said it.

Where did he say it?

Where?

Give me a verse.

Luke 24, yeah, that's a good one.

Someone said something up here.

The scriptures speak of me in the gospel of John.

So it's important that when we say the Bible is about Jesus and is from Jesus that we have scripture to stand on that.

Amen?

So if you had a pair of glasses to interpret the scriptures properly, the lenses would be in the shape of a cross.

Christ crucified is the lens and the only lens that causes the Bible to make sense.

So again, the scriptures, Jesus is not part of a mass storyline, this massive storyline, this long timetable,

he is not part of that narrative. Jesus is not part of the Bible story. I want you to be

delivered of that thought process because that is really to diminish his value and you'll never see passages

that once bored you as being beautiful unless you see him there. Okay. So remember, just because,

well, just because the gospels contain the passion story in clarity unveiled does not mean the passion

is not clearly preached throughout the Old Testament okay so I'm even slow to say that

so I don't want you to think that like all this

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