It’s all about me

 It’s All about Me

You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

JOHN 5.39

Two of Jesus’ followers were walking to the village of Emmaus. . . . Jesus himself suddenly came and began walking with them. But God kept them from recognising him. . . .

Then Jesus took them through the writings of Moses and all the prophets, explaining from all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

LUKE 24.13, 15-16, 27

Imagine pointing to a book that doesn’t even have your name in it and saying, “It’s all about me. All of it.” It would be hard for someone else to understand how that could be true. But that’s what Jesus said.

Jesus had just risen from the dead when he started walking beside two of his followers, although they didn’t know it was Jesus. These disciples were leaving Jerusalem terribly disappointed. They had expected Jesus to start his earthly Kingdom immediately, and instead he had died on a cross. There were rumours going around that he’d risen from the dead. But these disciples just didn’t get it. They couldn’t see it. And so as he walked alongside them, Jesus started going through the Old Testament and showing them everything it said about the Messiah and how he fulfilled it perfectly. Perhaps he said something like this.

“Can’t you see that I am the promised one who was to bruise the serpent’s head, the descendant of Abraham through whom all nations were to be blessed? I am the substance of every Old Testament sacrifice commanded in the law of Moses. I am the true deliverer and King — the one all the judges and deliverers in Jewish history pointed to. I am the coming prophet greater than Moses. I am the Ark of safety from God’s judgment, the scapegoat that took on the sin of others, the bronze serpent to look upon to be saved, the Lamb that was slaughtered, the High Priest to represent you before God. On every page, it’s all about me!”