Journal: Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Volume: SBJT 22:3 (Fall 2018)
Article: Lifting the Veil: Reading and Preaching Jesus’ Bible through Christ and for Christ
Author: Anonymous

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Lifting the Veil: Reading and Preaching Jesus’ Bible through Christ and for Christ1

Jason S. DeRouchie

Jason S. DeRouchie is Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology at Bethlehem College and Seminary. He earned his PhD from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. DeRouchie has written numerous articles and he is the author of A Call to Covenant Love: Text Grammar and Literary Structure in Deuteronomy 5–11 (Gorgias, 2007); What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible (Kregel, 2013); and How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology (P&R, 2017). Dr. DeRouchie serves as an elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church. He is married to Teresa and they have six children.

The summer of 2005 I moved to Minneapolis to begin my first full-time teaching post as an Old Testament (OT) professor. Upon my request (and with some help from Tom Schreiner), John Piper agreed to have lunch with me, during which I shared with him and Justin Taylor, his assistant at the time, how much a passion for God’s glory had captured me and how eager I was to proclaim the beauties and bigness of God from the initial three-fourths of the Christian Bible. After listening for a while, Pastor John asked Justin if he had any reflections, and Justin offered a single statement that shook me to the core and that God used to reorient my affections and to set me on a path of discovery and awe that I am still treading today. He said, “I hear a lot about the glory of God and very little about Jesus.”

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As a Christian, did my hermeneutical approach and ministry practice align with the truth that God created all things (including the OT) by the Son, through the Son, and for the Son (Col 1:16) and that “all the promises of God find their Yes in [the Son of God, Jesus Christ]” (2 Cor 1:20)? Could I, who like Paul was a teacher of Jesus’ Bible, say with the apostle, “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:2; cf. 1:23)? Did I approach Abraham as one who saw and rejoiced in Jesus’ day (John 8:56), even if from afar (Heb 11:13; cf. Matt 13:17), and did I affirm that Moses, in his writings, wrote of the divine Son (You must have a subscription and be logged in to read the entire article.
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