Hello everyone, well it's certainly not easy to apply all of the New Testament to our lives.

But it's certainly easier than trying to apply to our lives all the things that we read

about in the massive Old Testament.

So what role does the Old Testament play in our Christian lives?

That's the question today and it comes from a listener named Sarah.

Hello Pastor John, thank you for your ministry faithfulness over the years to this podcast

and for fielding my question.

Generally speaking, the Old Testament is still very valuable to us obviously.

But to what extent?

Now that the New Covenant has arrived, God doesn't require animal sacrifices for our sins.

So what are the best uses of the Old Testament for giving shape to our Christian lives today?

Let me begin with the recommendation of a book.

Jason Derochi, D-E-R-O-U-C-H-I-E, published a book called How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament.

It has a huge section in it on the practical uses of the Old Testament for our day.

Jason is the Professor of Old Testament at Milton College in Seminary and I just listened to a message

of his to a few days ago about how the Old Testament is not just turned into useful Christian

scripture for our own Christian living but was intended by God and by the authors themselves

of the Old Testament to be used that way beyond their own day in the distant future, including our time.

You can probably find that message by the way at the audio or video section over at

Milton College in Seminary website.

This is a huge issue that Sarah raises but I think I can say just two or three things that will help her

feel how precious and wonderful and useful the Old Testament is for our Christian life today.

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