Small Books about a BIG Savior

Christ in the Minor Prophets

 

In 1963 Ray Stedman, pastor of Peninsula Bible Church, said in his message "Genesis-Malachi, God Spoke in Times Past," that he never reads Luke 24 without wishing that he could have been there.  He was referring to the story of Christ on the day of His resurrection when Christ walked with two men on the road to Emmaus.  This is what Jesus said to them:

 

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets,

he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself... He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."

Luke 24:27,44

 

The last twelve books of the Hebrew Scriptures, known properly as The Twelve but called the Minor Prophets because of their length, speak to all believers about God's love, the work of the Holy Spirit, the return and Day of the Lord and the kingdom of God.  They speak to issues of politics, social justice and business ethics.  They cover a period of 300 years from the time of the prophet Hosea in 350 BC to the prophet Malachi in 460 BC.  Great empires - the Assyrians and Babylonians - rose and fell during this time and the nation of Israel experienced the pain of exile and the joy of restoration.  The New Covenant began to unfold as the nation returned to the land and ceased to practice idolatry.

 

This study, however, focuses on what these twelve books of prophecy have to say about Jesus Christ.  Not the Christ who would come but the Christ who is.  As the prophets penned these words the eternal Christ was already present but was not yet come in the flesh as the God-Man.  And so in each of these books we see Christ presented, Christ predicted and Christ proclaimed.

They truly are small books about a BIG Savior.

 

Date	Series	Title	Passage	Outline	mp3
Oct 12	Small Books about a BIG Savior	Jesus Wants You to Come Back Home	Hosea
19		Jesus Calls You to Radical Repentance	Joel
26		Jesus Ends the Famine of the Human Heart	Amos
Nov 2		The Thief Who Becomes a King	Obadiah
9		Jesus Offers You Unexplainable Forgiveness	Jonah
16		Jesus Wants You to Love the People You Don't Want to Love	Micah
23		Jesus Wants You to Run for Your Life	Nahum
30		Jesus Wants You to Hang in There	Habakkuk
Dec 7		Jesus Wants You to Run for Shelter	Zephaniah
14		Jesus Always Keeps His Promise	Haggai
21		Jesus Wants You to Live Like You Were Dying	Zechariah
28		Jesus is the Ultimate Text Messager	Malachi

 

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