Michael P.V. Barrett > Quotes

“The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

“Faith is not a subjective exercise of positive thinking that tries to convince that something is true contrary to fact. On the contrary, faith is based on objective truth, and it has value only in proportion to the worth of the object of that faith. This is why faith must always supersede and subdue experience. Experience is entirely subjective and can never be the final and sole judge of anything.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

“Truth is not what we define it to be; it is what God has revealed and declared it to be.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

“God’s Word should both fuel our faith and define our petitions. God must keep His Word.”
― Michael P. V. Barrett, God's Unfailing Purpose: The Message of Daniel

“The Lord’s presence may not always be–and usually is not–evident to the natural sight, but it is always the reality of faith. Whereas”
― Michael P. V. Barrett, God's Unfailing Purpose: The Message of Daniel

“It doesn’t matter what else we have or do not have; we have to have Christ to have life.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Complete in Him: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Gospel

“It is in this sense that Paul links Hagar to Sinai. Both Hagar and Sinai in their divinely intended places served well; but when they were elevated to positions whereby they were used to achieve the promise, they could only fail. By drawing the analogy between Hagar and Sinai, Paul makes it clear that God never intended the law to be the means of attaining salvation for ancient Israel. To define God’s purpose for the law in terms of how unbelievers used the law is most assuredly wrong. When the law is kept in the place that God intended, it serves grace well, both by leading men to Christ and by showing believers how to live in grace. For Israel in either the Old or the New Testament dispensation (in Moses’s day or in Paul’s day) to so misuse the law was to put themselves in bondage and their souls in eternal jeopardy.”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

“May Christ, indeed, be the theme of your song. CONCLUSION If you are like me, this may be the first thing in the book you are reading. We expect a conclusion to tell us something about the premise, scope, and plan of the book. Recognizing this tendency, I will, therefore, offer a brief synopsis of what I have done. After that I will make some concluding remarks that are corollary to this study. Summary The theme of this book is simply finding Christ in the Old Testament, and the purpose is to establish and illustrate the necessary principles of interpretation for discovering what the Old Testament reveals about Christ. Recognizing that not every student of the Bible has the same level”
― Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament