{"id":865,"date":"2020-04-26T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2020-04-26T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T23:53:50","slug":"why-the-history-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/26\/why-the-history-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the History is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cNow all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.\u201d
1 Corinthians 10:11<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After reading 1 Corinthians 10:11, one can\nunderstand that God\u2019s Word was written for us. In the Bible, we find examples\nof how we are to live our lives and to show us a picture of God\u2019s plan. We are\nto learn from what is written in His Word. Each Bible \u201cstory\u201d we have learned\nthrough the years is just a piece of the \u201cpuzzle\u201d to complete the picture of\nGod\u2019s plan. History may appear boring, but we must understand how fascinating,\nand especially important, it is to be in our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the history found in the Bible is so\nimportant, we should desire to know that history \u2013 just like Peter, Stephen,\nand Paul knew it. We are to understand that history is there to help us better\nunderstand and know Jesus. The more we read in God\u2019s Word, the more we begin to\nunderstand that God had a plan. In the Old Testament, men didn\u2019t fully\nunderstand what that plan was, but through faith they believed. In the New\nTestament, God\u2019s plan was revealed through His Son, Jesus. Men still didn\u2019t\nunderstand until Jesus died, resurrected and ascended into heaven. But once\nthey understood, they could not keep silent. They shared what they learned with\nothers so they could know of God\u2019s wonderful plan as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Jesus ascended back into heaven with the promise to\nreturn, Peter preached the Old Testament history. He had a new understanding of\nwho Jesus was ,why He had come, and that He would return one day. And what an\namazing response he received! Three thousand believed! And when he preached\nagain shortly thereafter, five thousand believed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there was another man named Stephen who preached the same\nhistory, and he found a very different response to his message. The religious\nleaders stoned him to death. There was one specific young man who consented to\nStephen\u2019s death. His name was Saul. His initial response to the Gospel message\nof Jesus was to seek out anyone who believed in Jesus and imprison or even kill\nthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made a special trip to find anyone, man or woman, who\nbelieved in Jesus. But on his way, he met Jesus. There was quite a\ntransformation in his life. Instead of wanting to kill those who believed in\nJesus, Saul (later called Paul) became a mighty preacher, and teacher, of the\nhistory revealing Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of these men came to the understanding that all of the\nOld Testament teachings were just pieces of a great picture. As they began to\ncontemplate the truths they had learned, they realized that they revealed the\npicture of God\u2019s plan to send Jesus into the world to take away their sin \u2013 if\nthey would only believe and receive Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever worked on a puzzle? Each piece is only part of\na greater picture. The picture is not complete without all of the pieces. You\ncould guess what the picture was going to be, but you wouldn\u2019t completely know\nwithout the final pieces. Once you put all of the pieces together, you can see\nthat greater picture. But when you are missing a piece, the picture is\nincomplete. This is much like knowing some of the events of the Old Testament\nand missing pieces of it. You cannot see the complete picture without reading\nand learning all of the events in that Old Testament text. Throughout history,\npeople would try to understand what God was showing them. They trusted that He\nheld all of the pieces and would fit them into place in His own time. Once\nJesus came, many understood that all of the Old Testament was recorded for us\nto understand God\u2019s plan to send His Son, Jesus, into the world to redeem a\nsinful people back to Himself. He wants us to understand this plan so that we\nwill know just how important it is to place our lives into God\u2019s hand by trusting\nin Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you enjoy doing a puzzle that doesn\u2019t have all of the pieces?\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever been so excited about Jesus that you shared with others what you have learned so they could know of God\u2019s wonderful plan as well? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously published at: Lighthouse Gospel Beacon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading 1 Corinthians 10:11, one can understand that God\u2019s Word was written for us. In the Bible, we find examples of how we are to live our lives and to show us a picture of God\u2019s plan. We are to learn from what is written in His Word. Each Bible \u201cstory\u201d we have learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,318],"tags":[437,85,438,436,40,80,73,277,439,173,101,44,442,440],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighthouse-publishing-blog","category-picture-with-verse-and-blog","tag-admonition","tag-bible","tag-bible-story","tag-examples","tag-history","tag-jesus","tag-old-testament","tag-paul","tag-peter","tag-picture","tag-promise","tag-puzzle-pieces","tag-return","tag-stephen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}