Christ in All the Scriptures
Christ in All the Scriptures
Bro Yeow Chin Kiong | 12 April 2026 | Luke 24:25–27, 44–47
Luke 24:25–27
"Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."
Luke 24:44–47
"Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.""
This lesson marks the beginning of a new series — one that will take us through the books of the Old Testament, one by one, to show that the entire span of Scripture — from Genesis to Malachi — points unmistakably to Jesus Christ.
It is a series designed not merely to inform the mind, but to set the heart on fire. Because once you begin to see the pieces of the jigsaw falling into place — once you see that what God was doing across centuries and through dozens of writers was always moving toward one Person — it changes everything about what it means to be a Christian.
Three things remain with us as followers of Christ : faith, hope, and love.
These are not passive sentiments.
Faith is a matter of the head - mind and intellect — it is built on evidence.
Hope is a matter of the heart — not the world's uncertain wishing, but the Christian's settled expectation of what has been promised and will certainly come.
And love is a matter of the hands — the conduct, the life lived in response to what has been believed and hoped. This series is, at its deepest level, about feeding all three.
The Question That Demands an Answer
There is a question that has quietly troubled thoughtful Christians for centuries, and it deserves to be asked plainly: if Jesus is truly the fulfilment of the Old Testament, why do the Jewish people — the very people to whom those Scriptures were entrusted — not believe it?
They have lived with these 39 books for millennia. They know them. They treasure them. If the Old Testament points to Jesus, surely those most immersed in it would be the first to see Him there.
R. R. Reno, writing in First Things on 27 March 2026, writes on "the scandal of Judaism"— and puts it plainly: the enduring reality of Jewish unbelief can feel, to those who confess Jesus as Lord, like evidence that something is wrong with Christian claims. If the people God chose at Sinai do not recognise Jesus as the Messiah, doesn't that suggest Christians might be mistaken?
The answer this lesson offers is not a defensive one. It is an invitation. The Old Testament and the New Testament must be read together — all 66 books, as a single, unified, God-breathed whole. To read the 39 books of the Old Testament without the 27 books of the New is to look at half a jigsaw puzzle and conclude that the picture makes no sense. Of course it is incomplete. The pieces that bring it together are waiting in the New Testament — and once they are placed, the image that emerges is unmistakable.
Paul understood the extraordinary privilege and calling that belonged to Israel. His grief over their unbelief was not contempt — it was love:
Romans 9:1–5
"I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen."
The Israelites — distinct from the modern nation of Israel established in 1948 — were the people God chose to carry His covenant through history. They were primarily from the tribe of Judah. Mary, the mother of Jesus, was an Israelite. For the birth of the Son of God to take place, it had to be through a specific people, in a specific line, at a specific time.
God's plan was not accidental or improvised. It was precise, purposeful, and woven through every page of the Old Testament. The jigsaw was being assembled across centuries — one piece at a time.
As Jesus Himself declared:
John 5:45–46
"Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me."
Moses wrote about Jesus. There is more than a thousand years between them. But that is precisely the point — this is God's plan unfolding across time, and its coherence is one of the most powerful evidences that the Bible is not a human document. No human conspiracy could have coordinated this across so many writers, so many centuries, so many genres.
The Road to Emmaus — Hearts on Fire
The passage at the heart of this lesson is one of the most beautiful encounters in all of the Gospels. The day of the resurrection, two disciples are walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus — confused, grieving, their hopes apparently shattered. A stranger joins them on the road. They do not recognise Him. They tell Him what has happened — how Jesus of Nazareth, whom they had hoped was the Redeemer of Israel, had been crucified.
And then the stranger speaks:
Luke 24:25–27
"Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself."
Beginning at Moses and all the Prophets. Walking along the road, the risen Jesus opened the Old Testament to them — not selecting one or two convenient passages, but working through all the Scriptures, pointing to the places where each piece of the puzzle spoke of Him. Where He would be born. What He would do. How He would suffer. What would follow. The disciples had memorised these Scriptures — as was common in their day — but they had never seen them this way. And something happened inside them.
Luke 24:32
"And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?""
Did not our heart burn within us. This is what the study of Scripture — when approached as a unified whole, with Christ at its centre — does to a person. It does not merely satisfy the mind. It sets the heart on fire. The two disciples turned around immediately and went back to Jerusalem. They could not keep it to themselves. They had seen something they had never seen before, and it changed everything.
Later, with the disciples gathered in Jerusalem, Jesus appeared again — and He returned to the same theme:
Luke 24:44–47
"Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.""
He opened their understanding. This is the work that genuine engagement with Scripture — all of it, together — is meant to do. Not to confuse or overwhelm, but to illuminate. The Bible is a library of 66 books, all related, all moving in the same direction, all pointing to the same Person. The trouble is not that it is unclear. The trouble is that we have not always taken the trouble to see how the pieces fit.
All Scripture Is Inspired — and All of It Coordinates
2 Timothy 3:16
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,"
If all Scripture is given by inspiration of God — breathed out by the same divine source — then all of it should coordinate. There should be no contradiction. There should be coherence across every book, every author, every era. And that is exactly what we find, once we learn to read the pieces together.
Think of a jigsaw puzzle with some pieces hidden away — perhaps one or two pieces withheld until later. The picture looks incomplete, even confusing. But when the missing pieces are finally placed, something wonderful happens: the whole image comes clear at once. There is joy in that moment — a sudden comprehension that was impossible before. That is what happens when the Old Testament and the New Testament are read together. The hidden pieces were always there. They were always part of the same picture. And Christ is the piece that makes everything else make sense.
Peter, preaching in the early days of the Church, made this connection explicit:
Acts 3:18–21
"But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began."
Since the world began. This was not a plan formed in response to events. It was announced by the mouth of all the holy prophets from the very beginning. And Moses — the one whom the Israelites trusted above all — was among the first to speak of it:
Acts 3:22–26
"For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.' Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days. You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."
And the prophets themselves — the very men who wrote these words — did not always fully understand what they were writing. They knew something was coming.
1 Peter 1:10–12
"Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into."
The Invitation — Take the Challenge
There will come a day — for every one of us — when the body we have inhabited all our lives will give way. We were young once. Some of us are no longer young. We have been given good lives, many of us — careers, families, health, the blessing of knowing God. But the day will come when we close our eyes and move on to what lies beyond.
And the question that matters most on that day is not what we achieved, but what we believed — and whether we lived accordingly.
The Christian hope is not wishful thinking. It is not fantasy. It is built on the weight of evidence accumulated across centuries — the testimony of prophets who wrote things they did not fully understand, whose words were fulfilled with precision in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
When that day comes — when the eyes close — those who are in Christ will wake up in His presence. Just as sleep ends without the sleeper being aware of the time that passed, so the passage from this life to what follows will be, for those who belong to Him, seamless. The resurrected Christ is the guarantee. We too will rise.
But the foundation must be laid now.
To believe is not enough in isolation — it must be a genuine, evidence-based belief that leads somewhere.
It leads to confession — openly acknowledging Jesus as Lord.
It leads to repentance — a genuine turning from what we were, with real and good impact on the people around us.
It leads to baptism by immersion, for the remission of sins. And it leads to a whole life of obedience — not perfect, but persistent — lived in faithfulness to the One who gave everything for us.
Do not take these decisions lightly. But do not delay them either. The pieces of the puzzle are all there. The picture is clear. Beginning with Moses and going through every book of the Old Testament, we will see it — Christ in all the Scriptures, present from the very first page, moving toward the cross and the empty tomb and the throne at the right hand of the Father.
Christ Is In All The Scripture
