Romans 8:15, 16: "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God."
Here we have the great fact that should make us bold in appealing for guidance, for wisdom, for leadership every day. God is our Father! And the term here, Abba, is the Aramaic term that a little child would call his papa, his daddy, and not the rather austere term father. And the little child has a right to say, "Daddy, where are you?" He has a right to day, "Daddy, which way shall I go?" And the Christian has a right to say, "O Heavenly Father, let me have my hand in yours and You lead me in a plain path and never let me get out of Thy will!" - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 181]
One has read very carelessly the Old Testament who has not learned that the great hero of the law and the prophets and the Psalms is the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the central theme, and that the salvation of sinners is everywhere joined to that theme by implication and often by direct statement. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 194]
Christ is the seed of the woman promised to Adam and Eve. He is the prophet like unto Moses, promised to Israel. He is the suffering servant of Isaiah 50 and 53. He is the one crying out on the cross in Psalm 22. He is the child born, the Son given, of Isaiah 9:6 and 7. He is the virgin-born child of Isaiah 7:14. He is the seed promised Abraham. He is the Son of David who is promised to sit on David's throne. He is "the Lord our righteousness" in Jeremiah. He is the second David who will reign over both the houses of Israel, promised in Ezekiel. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 194-195]
Jesus is symbolized and pictured by object lessons throughout the Old Testament. He is the Passover Lamb. Yea, He is the scapegoat bearing blame which is not His. He is the mourning turtledove picturing the man of sorrows. He is the bullock, the burden-bearing Saviour. He is the white and stainless pigeon. Every bloody sacrifice, from Abel to the Passover Lamb killed the day Jesus was on the cross, pictured the atoning death of Jesus Christ. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 195]
The high priest anointed with oil pictured Jesus our High Priest filled with the Spirit. Young David, anointed to be king, pictured the Lord Jesus Christ anointed and filled with the Spirit to reign on David's throne one day. The golden candlestick, a lamp stand, pictured Christ the Light of the World, burning in the power of the Holy Spirit. The shewbread, twelve loaves placed fresh every Sabbath day in the tabernacle or temple, pictured Jesus the Bread of Life. The manna which fell in the wilderness is Christ also, the manna from Heaven. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 195]
The brazen serpent on a pole to whom the snake-bitten Israelites could look and be healed, is Jesus on the cross, as He Himself told Nicodemus.
Oh, the spiritual heart can find Jesus on nearly every page of the Old Testament. That is why the law was David's delight. Even before the law Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad and believed on Him as we do. He saw in the offering of Isaac, the crucifixion; in the sparing of Isaac, the resurrection. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 195]
The furniture of the tabernacle was made of wood, to picture Christ's humanity, and covered with gold, to picture His deity. The pure white linen over the tabernacle pictured His sinless purity. The ram's skins dyed red pictured His atonement. The badgers' skins, dull and unattractive to the world, pictured Him as this outer world sees Him. And the blue curtains pictured Him as deity, a heavenly being. - John R. Rice [Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning [pg. 195-196]
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