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Lead:

Another huge reason for reading the whole bible, quickly.

Intro:

You’ve often heard me say that the power of just sitting at Jesus’ feet and listening to him, even if we don’t understand it all, is that the Spirit can’t help us connect the dots unless He’s got something to work with. And when you read the whole bible, and fairly quickly like we do here, it’s easier to start making connections between the people, places, and events that add depth and insight to your understanding. That’s the purpose of exploring today’s definition of typology — learning a little more about how those connections happen in the Bible so we can grow in seeing and loving Jesus more clearly.

Yesterday we started into Matthew revealing the nature of community in Christ, and today that goes deeper in the sense of how we should value each other and community.

Sponsor:

Today’s sponsor and provider of background music is Pip Craighead’s The Dandelion Project, and the new track is Night School.

Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):

Passage: Matthew 19-20
Translation: NLT (New Living Translation)
Verses: 64
Words: ~1353

Thinking/reflection segment:

Typology -- Biblical comparisons and links made between persons, events, things and institutions of one biblical period and those of another, particularly between those of the OT and the NT. The term is derived from the Greek word typos, meaning “impression, mark, image” and, by metaphorical extension, an example or model.
Typology is employed by the biblical authors to show continuity in God’s plan, the “pattern in the carpet” of redemptive history. Typological interpretation is the attempt to detect types in the biblical text, and like allegorical interpretation, it suffers from the excesses of some of its practitioners.
The type is the initial person, event, thing or institution; the corresponding and later person, event, thing or institution is called the antitype. For example, Paul portrays Christ as the antitype of Adam in Romans 5:12–21: “Adam, who is a type of the one who was to come” (Rom 5:14).
Typology should be distinguished from intertextuality, though some overlap is natural. Types are not essentially chronological and certainly not causal or in opposition. Rather, typology works on the assumption of the oneness of the divine plan in which all events and persons are parts and reflections of that plan. Thus the “horizontal” element (along the historical plane) is not as important as the “vertical” element, where the facts of the events are seen in the larger structure of divine reality.
Furthermore, Christian typological interpretation has its fulfillment in the person and work of Jesus Christ; it is not simply the correspondences that occupy our interpretation but the fulfillment of those correspondences in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Rather than an artificial correspondence between every OT person and institution and Jesus Christ—and the virtual reduction of these persons and institutions into mere shades—a truly theological typology sees the events and persons transfigured and completed in Jesus.
Thus, the sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham’s “beloved son,” in Genesis 22 is picked up in the NT as a type of Christ, God’s beloved Son given for all. God’s redemptive activity in the one event comes to completion in the second. Both occurrences are real and concrete, but they transcend mere chronological or causal correspondence and signify the ongoing redemptive activity of God in creation.(1)

Wisdom segment:

Passage: Psalm 75
Translation: NLT (New Living Translation)
Verses: 10
Words: 164

Love you!

-R

Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.

Sources and resources:

(1) Nrthur G. Patzia and Anthony J. Petrotta, Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002), 119–120.

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