Jensens survey of the old testament adam 340
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BEFORE ANALYZING IT
It is important to “image the whole, then
execute the parts.” That is because a general
survey study gives perspective and setting
for the analysis of the small detailed parts.
The main purpose of this book is to lead the
student in such a survey of the New
Testament. Values and procedures of survey
study will be discussed in the next chapter.
C. RECOGNIZE THE KEY REVEALED
TRUTHS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Key revealed truths underlie all the details
of the whole New Testament text.41 You are
on rm ground when you recognize those
truths as you study a Bible passage. Some of
the main ones are discussed below.42
1. Redemption is the prominent subject of the
New Testament revelation. From beginning to
end the whole Bible is the story of
redemption — God’s work of bringing
sinners back into fellowship with Him,
through the death of His Son. Christ is the
Redeemer, and because He is the central
gure of the New Testament, the
prominence of redemption in its pages is
natural.
The price of the sinner’s redemption was
Christ’s death on the cross. So the cross is
prominent throughout the New Testament.
Of that cross Erich Sauer writes,
The cross is … the central event of
His work on earth. It is the central
act of God in the whole history of
the universe. It is the most
marvellous revelation of the will of
God to save, “so that each that
believes in Him should not be lost
but have eternal life” (John
3:16).43
Because redemption is the prominent
subject of the New Testament, we may
expect that each of its twenty-seven books
contributes to this theme, in varying
degrees, depending on the individual
purpose of each book. This also is saying
that we are not to read into every passage
the doctrine of redemption, when the
doctrine is not there.
2 . Sin is man’s basic, desperate problem.
Redemption is prominent in the New
Testament because it is God’s merciful
response to man’s basic problem, sin, whose
wages are eternal death (Rom. 6:23). So,
just as we may expect to read much in the
New Testament about salvation, we may
expect to observe equivalent emphasis about
sin. For example, Romans 1:18—3:20 is
abo u t sin; the following section, Romans
3:21—5:21 is about salvation.
It is because sin estranges man from God
that He judges it as the arch-enemy it really
is. And that is why He gave His Son to die
on the cross. His death is the exact measure
of the sins of mankind: “He died for all” (2
Cor. 5:15).
3 . The human race has no hope outside
God’s grace. This truth is taught throughout
the New Testament, just as it is prominent in
the Old Testament. Paul writes that sinners,
because they are separate from Christ, have
no hope and are “without God in the world”
