Lord's Day: January 11, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: It Is Written: Scripture Alone Topic: Scripture Scripture: Luke 11:45–52; Matthew 23:29–36; Zechariah 1:1; 2 Chronicles 24:20–22; Luke 7:28; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 25:46; Ephesians 2:1–19

49“For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute, 50so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, 51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’" Luke 11:49–51

• Sometimes Jesus was confrontational

I. Which Zechariah?

• Zechariah 1:1, 2 Chronicles 24:20–22, Protoevangelium of James

II. Jesus does not include any martyrdoms from the Intertestamental Period

• Nor John the Baptist
• “So there was great distress in Israel, such as had not been since the time that prophets ceased to appear among them.” (1 Macc. 9:27, after Malachi)
• Jewish Talmud (Sotah 9:48b): “As the Sages taught in a baraita (Tosefta 13:3): From the time when Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi died, the Divine Spirit departed from the Jewish people, as these three were considered to be the last prophets.”

III. Differing levels of authority within the canonical books of Scripture

• Law of Moses is the foundation for everything that follows
• All Scripture is authoritative, but the New Testament is the final written Word of God, making it more authoritative, the final, God-breathed, written Word that divinely expands on, fulfills, continues and abrogates, and interprets the Old Testament.
• Augustine: “The new is in the old concealed (hidden); the old is in the new revealed.”
• Beware: Inverted hermeneutic of Annihilationism, Conditional Immortality (Kirk Cameron)

• Louis Gaussen: “The whole tenor of Scripture places the writers of the New Testament in the same rank with the prophets of the Old; and even when it establishes any difference between them, it is always in putting the last in date above the first, in so far as one of God's sayings is superior to the saying that preceded it (not…in divinity, not in dignity, but in authority).”[1]

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Scripture quotations marked LSB are from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com

[1] François Samuel Robert Louis Gaussen, God-Breathed: The Divine Inspiration of the Bible, ed. by John W. Robbins, trans. by David Scott, Trinity Paper, 57 (The Trinity Foundation, 2001), pp. 78, 84 .