Today's question is, one, I can certainly relate to myself.

I read my Bible in the morning, I come across a promise or text in the Old Testament.

I write it out in a notebook, I take that text or that promise into my day, but later in

the day, when I return to the text, I'm left wondering if I lifted the verse out of context

and maybe it doesn't really apply to my life like I first thought it did that morning.

Text to me, feel more and more remote as the day goes on. Has that happened to you?

Well, it certainly happened to me and it's happened to Maureen.

She writes in to ask this, Pastor John, thank you for the Ask Pastor John podcast.

How do I know which Old Testament verses are for me as a Christian today?

Sometimes I select a verse that is meaningful to me from my Bible reading in the morning,

but then later in the day as I later reflect on it, it feels like I lifted the

verse out of context and misapplied it to myself.

How, Pastor John, do I know which Old Testament promises are for me?

Well, I'm tempted to say even though I know it's an oversimplification.

All of it. All of it is for you. All of the Old Testament is for Christians.

Romans 154 says, whatever underlying that word, whatever was written in former days was written

for our instruction, that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures,

we would have hope. All of it. Second Corinthians 1, 20, all the promises of God find their

yes in Christ. And Jesus said in Matthew 5, 17, do not think that I have come to abolish

the law and the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them for truly,

I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one Yoda, not a dot, will pass from the law

until all is accomplished. So even though it's an oversimplification, it's true. It's true.

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