The following passage is from a book called The Centrality and Supremacy of the Lord Jesus Christ by T. Austin Sparks. This little passage, which you could say is only even in the introduction to this incredible work, contains the key to how we are to truly understand all scripture in both the Old and New Testaments. Enjoy!
THE CENTRALITY AND SUPREMACY OF THE LORD JESUS IS THE PIVOT AND THE KEY TO ALL THE SCRIPTURES
Of course the Lord Jesus Himself has told us as much. We know from Luke 24 that that is so. There we find Him taking Moses, the Psalms, and all the Prophets, and in them all speaking of the things concerning Himself. So that in our reading of the Word of God, WHEREVER we happen to be reading, the question that should always be in our minds is “What has this to do with Christ?”; and if you bring that question to your reading of the Word of God, wherever you may read (and that is not said without thought) you will at once get a new understanding of the Word, you will have a new value in your reading; for the Scriptures, and ALL the Scriptures, are they which speak of Him; although you may have difficulty sometimes in tracing Him, yet He is there. The cumulative effect of all parts of the Word of God is to bring you to Christ. You must not read the Word of God as history, narrative, prophecy, or as anything else as a theme in itself, but always ask the question: “What has this to do with Christ?” and until you can find what it has to do with Christ you have not found the key.
Amen! God desires only Christ. As I was reading this excerpt I was reminded by the Father’s word on the Mount of Transfiguration: Hear Him! Forget about Moses, Elijah, etc – just focus on Christ!
The Lord Jesus Himself told the Jews, You search the Scriptures thinking that in them you have eternal life, yet you don’t come to Me that you may have life! Life is not in the Scriptures but in Christ in the Scriptures! When we read the Bible, we need to come to Christ!
.That passage came to me as well. Nee said that that passage spoke of the relationship of the law, or written words of God, as represented by Moses, the prophetic, or instant, taught, or communicated words, both important for us in the Kingdom, but in their proper, subjugated, position to Christ who is all and in all. It is to Him we must look, listen, and obey.
Should have inserted, “as represented by Elijah” after “communicated words.”
We need the written word and the spoken, or expounded, word, for our growth and direction, but Christ supercedes them all.