Heeding Examples From The Old Testament

For many, the Old Testament is the “boring” part of the Bible. Their reasoning is that it contains little in the way of instruction for the Christian, certainly not like the more practical epistles in the New Testament. But in one of those epistles, the apostle Paul says, “For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope” (Romans 15:4 NASB).

Thus, the Old Testament is filled with examples by which we might learn, both about how to serve God (and how not to), and about the character of God Himself. To neglect the Old Testament would be to rob ourselves of much of what we can know about the Creator and Sustainer of this world.

For example, see here.

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets