Space-Filling Thoughts

  The Prophet Isaiah, image from WikiMedia Commons What do you think of the Old Testament?  How important is it to your faith?  I begin by asking these questions because as we come here to the final verses of Romans 10, the first thing that I want us to notice is the fact that these verses are almost entirely nothing more than quotations from the Old Testament.  What the apostle is doing is supporting the case he has been making from Scripture.  And what’s interesting here is that he quotes from the Law (Deut. 31:32) in verse 19, the Prophets (Isa. 65:1-2) in verses 20-21, and the Writings (Ps. 19:1-6) in verse 18.  I don’t think that was random or coincidental.  Each of these sections comprised the three main divisions in the Jewish Bible (and still do today).  Our Lord, you may recall, refers to them in Luke 24:44.  Paul is teaching us that he is saying nothing new here.  It is all in the Old Testament.  The Old and the New Testam...