What is the Point of the Bible?

That the Bible is not just a disconnected book of 66 individual and separated books. It rather is one book with one focused point. 66 books, 1500 years, 40 different authors, various backgrounds, various genres, and yet the Bible has a single story.

What is that story? Preacher, I'm glad you asked. The Lord Jesus Christ. In the beginning, the Bible tells us, was Christ, was the Word. All things were created by Him and for Him and through Him. He is the promised seed of Eve to crush the serpent's head.

He is the reason for the rainbow. God promises not to destroy the world again by flood so that Christ would come. He is the ark, a refuge from God's wrath. He is the promised offspring of Abraham who will bless all the families of the earth.

He is the lion of the tribe of Judah. He is Jacob's ladder. He is the greater prophet that Moses spoke of. He is the one that all the feasts and sacrifices point us to under the Mosaic covenant. He is the Passover lamb.

He is a better priest than Aaron. He is the promised son of David. All the wisdom of Proverbs points us to Him. He is the bridegroom of the song of Solomon. He gives music to every psalm. He is Isaiah's vision.

He is Jeremiah's branch. He is greater than Jonah. Zechariah spoke of Him. Zephaniah spoke of Him. He is greater than Zerubbabel's temple. He is the Son of God. He is the Son of Man. He is the last Adam, the true and better Adam.

Gabriel announces his birth. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He grew up, the Bible says, like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him and no beauty that we should desire Him.

He is truly God and truly man. He fulfilled the law. He obtained righteousness for His people by His righteous life. His life merits access to the tree of life. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.

The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness. He completed the covenant of works, yet the Bible says He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And as one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised and we esteemed Him not.

Yet the Bible says He is the way, the truth, and the life. He went to the cross as Scripture required and as Scripture predicted. Nails were driven into His hands and one into both of His feet and a crown of thorns was placed upon His head.

And He quotes from the cross. Psalm 22, verse one. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Naked, alone, derided, a sin offering between heaven and earth on God's altar, bearing the wrath of God for sinners, crying out in His last breath, it is finished.

He drank the cup. We are the lawbreakers and He is the one who upheld the law and yet He dies in our place. Are you hearing what the Bible is about? A spear pierced His side. He was laid in a borrowed tooth.

Samson in his death brought more death. Jesus in His death secured life. On the third day, up from the grave, He arose. He spent 40 days teaching His disciples and then He ascended into heaven and He is seated now at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, and all things are under His feet.

All principalities and powers and governments and every president and every world leader, they're under His feet. He rules over all and He is head of the church and by His Holy Spirit, through the word of God, He is building this church because God will have Him for Himself a people spread over all the earth who will glorify Him and enjoy Him and serve Him and honor Him and He is doing this through the gospel that you're hearing.

All things happening in the world today are for the glory of Christ and for the good of His people and He's coming physically again to judge the living and the dead. What are you saying, preacher? I'm saying this.

No Jew, no Muslim, no Hindu, no liberal, no conservative, no southerner, no Yankee, no Canadian. No one will receive pardon. No nationality, no ethnicity, no gender, male or female. No age will receive pardon or forgiveness of sins except in Christ alone.

This, my friends, is the subject of the scriptures. He is Christ. Jesus is the treasure in the field. He is the pearl of great price. He is the one in whom, the only one in whom our restless hearts may find rest.

He is the only one to whom we may go to for forgiveness of sins. He is the only one that we may go to for sweet and blessed reconciliation with our God, for justification for a new life, for eternal life.

God saves sinners, but only one way, Christ, friends. It's all about Christ. I'm telling you this morning, this book is not your little blessing box. It's not for cute sayings on a couch pillow. It's not for men to build their own kingdoms or a way to manipulate God or to make you just feel better about yourself or to manipulate others.

This book is about Christ. This book points us to our good and gracious King. Listen to the book. This gospel calls out to all men, all women, all boys, all girls. Listen to me now this morning if you're in this room.

The sexually immoral, the legalist, the hypocrites, the addicts, the self-righteous, the self-loathing, the self-infatuated, the lazy, the gluttons, the liars, the thieves. The gospel calls out to all and says, come, repent, and believe the gospel.

He's slain with the sword. Hear me, the sword cuts deep. Oh, it's such a deep cut, and yet it heals so beautifully. The point of the Bible is Christ. Do you know this man? Is he your joy, your solace, your master?

Hey, why are you calling Jesus Lord of your life if you don't do what he says? Well, preacher, that's offensive to me. No, that's what the Bible says. Why do you call him Lord, Lord, if you don't wanna follow his commandments?

If you love him, do what he says, and under the providential, sovereign hand of God, you're hearing this this morning again in his grace. Will you come know him today? Believe in the one today whom the whole Bible points us to?

Will you trust Jesus? So what if you can defend, so what if you can defend the doctrines of grace if you don't know Christ? So what, so what, if you're gonna vote for the right person for president this fall if you don't know Christ?

So what if your children are successful in academics or in sports if you don't know Christ? He is the one whom we were made for, and he is the one whom the Bible points to.