A recurring theme in the Bible is that we should always look back and remember what God has done for us in the past. Looking back on God’s fulfilled promises gives us confidence that God will be faithful to us now and in the future. We can count on God to keep His promises and to do what is right and perfect. Looking at what God has done will tell you what God will do because God never changes.
Malachi 3:6 – I am the Lord, I do not change.
Hebrews 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Psalm 102.27 – But You are the same, and Your years will have no end.
James 1:17 – Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
It would be a mistake to focus only on the New Testament and ignore or gloss over the Old Testament as outdated because we are under the new blood covenant of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament is part of God’s Word and is relevant and everlasting. Omit it at your peril. The Old Testament was validated in its entirety by Jesus during His ministry.
Matthew 5:17 – Do not think that I came to destroy the Law of the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Matthew 5:18 – For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass away from the law till all is fulfilled.