Old Testament not for today! A disturbing teaching!
I have recently heard Bill Johnson say that the Old Testament was for the people then, and that the New Testament is for us now. He used the verse in Heb 1:1 “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”. Bill Johnson then said that “the Old Testament anointing was for them and the New Testament anointing is for us.
Why would we even need to make that distinction? We all know that Jesus existed before the foundation of the world, and that all things were created by Him and for Him. Whether OT or NT, it is this same Jesus, working by His same Spirit, all in all. Maybe some people don’t know that.
The New Testament was not created until about 350 years after Christ. Why anyone would dismiss the Old Testament shows a lack of understanding of the Word and Jesus. Paul himself says in 2 Tim 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work”.
What was Paul referring to? He was referring to the Old Testament. Who should we listen to? The Apostle Paul or Bill Johnson?
Paul warns in 2 Timothy 4:3 “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear”.
In these last days, the days that we now live in, we have been warned that unsound doctrine will abound. The warning is for us Christians, not the world. Let us test everything against the Bible, it is our only hope.
Niels
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I LOVE ALL OF THE BIBLE BUT THIS IS PERTINENT TO YOUR BLOG I THINK! I THINK HEBREWS HERE IN 11TH CHAPTER HELPS US PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE FOR US AS THE REDEEMED IN CHRIST.
Heb 11:39-12:24
39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
Hebrews 12
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”
7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8 If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10 Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13 “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
14 Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son. 17 Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears.
PRAISE GOD!
18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.” 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
THANK YOU LORD
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
NIV