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Enjoying Jesus's Bible: The Old Testament for Christians
As a Christian, are you unsure about the best way to read and understand what is literally the first three-quarters of the Bible?
It's a hugely important question, because unhealthy approaches to the Old Testament can lead to significant doctrinal and ethical problems. This is why Enjoying Jesus's Bible teaches us how
read the Old Testament in the ways God intends (chapter 1),see Jesus where Scripture discloses him (chapter 2),hope in all God's promises for us (chapter 3), andlive faithfully in relation to God's law (chapter 4).
Enjoying Jesus's Bible will help you see like never before that the Old Testament is fully Christian Scripture, given by God to instruct us and instill hope in us — hope in and through Jesus Christ.
This book is short, clear, and packed with insights. It's perfect for anyone with an interest in
from students and everyday Christians eager to learn moreto pastors, teachers, and scholars who will appreciate the succinct, insightful presentation.
Learn how to enjoy, delight in, and grow in Godward hope through the Old Testament — the Bible of Jesus, the Apostles, and the earliest Church — the 39 books of Scripture that set the stage for the worldwide spread of Christianity.
It's a hugely important question, because unhealthy approaches to the Old Testament can lead to significant doctrinal and ethical problems. This is why Enjoying Jesus's Bible teaches us how
read the Old Testament in the ways God intends (chapter 1),see Jesus where Scripture discloses him (chapter 2),hope in all God's promises for us (chapter 3), andlive faithfully in relation to God's law (chapter 4).
Enjoying Jesus's Bible will help you see like never before that the Old Testament is fully Christian Scripture, given by God to instruct us and instill hope in us — hope in and through Jesus Christ.
This book is short, clear, and packed with insights. It's perfect for anyone with an interest in
from students and everyday Christians eager to learn moreto pastors, teachers, and scholars who will appreciate the succinct, insightful presentation.
Learn how to enjoy, delight in, and grow in Godward hope through the Old Testament — the Bible of Jesus, the Apostles, and the earliest Church — the 39 books of Scripture that set the stage for the worldwide spread of Christianity.
128 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2025
About the author
Jason S. DeRouchie
21 books35 followersJason S. DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO
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November 19, 2025
3.5/5
The first three chapters of the book were fantastic! Truly. I think his view of a Christ-centeredness to the Old is spot on.
However, as a Reformed guy who affirms (and finds helpful) the tripartite division of the law, I found Derouchie’s fourth and final chapter lacking. In it he critiques the traditional three-part division and offers his own paradigm. I would prefer his chapters 1–3 WITH the historical reformed view of the law as moral, ceremonial, and civil.
A couple of my favorite quotes:
To understand the Old Testament fully, we must read it as believers in Jesus, with God having awakened our spiritual senses to see and hear rightly. That is, we read through Christ. Then, as Christians, biblical interpretation reaches its end only after we have found Jesus and experienced him transforming us into his image. We, thus, read for Christ. (5–6)
The resurrected Christ now allows his followers to see things in the Bible that were there all along but imperceivable without the correct light and lens (see Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 3:14). In Christ, God "enlightens" the eyes of our hearts (Eph. 1:18). (18)
Jesus's saving work supplies the spiritual light that enables one's spiritual senses to see and savor rightly, and his person and work provide the interpretive lens for properly understanding and applying the Old Testament itself in a way that most completely magnifies God in Christ. (29)
Jesus supplies both the light and lens for reading the Old Testament rightly. "Light" indicates that interpreting the Old Testament properly is possible only for those who have seen "the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ" (2 Cor. 4:4). Only spiritual people can read a spiritual book (1 Cor. 2:13-14). "Lens" stresses that Jesus's life, death, and resurrection disclose truths in the Old Testament that were always there but not yet clear, at least to the majority (Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 3: 14). (113)
The New Testament provides both the answer key and the algorithm for reading the Old Testament in its fullness... Through Jesus, God enables and empowers us to read the Old Testament as he intended. (114)
The first three chapters of the book were fantastic! Truly. I think his view of a Christ-centeredness to the Old is spot on.
However, as a Reformed guy who affirms (and finds helpful) the tripartite division of the law, I found Derouchie’s fourth and final chapter lacking. In it he critiques the traditional three-part division and offers his own paradigm. I would prefer his chapters 1–3 WITH the historical reformed view of the law as moral, ceremonial, and civil.
A couple of my favorite quotes:
To understand the Old Testament fully, we must read it as believers in Jesus, with God having awakened our spiritual senses to see and hear rightly. That is, we read through Christ. Then, as Christians, biblical interpretation reaches its end only after we have found Jesus and experienced him transforming us into his image. We, thus, read for Christ. (5–6)
The resurrected Christ now allows his followers to see things in the Bible that were there all along but imperceivable without the correct light and lens (see Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 3:14). In Christ, God "enlightens" the eyes of our hearts (Eph. 1:18). (18)
Jesus's saving work supplies the spiritual light that enables one's spiritual senses to see and savor rightly, and his person and work provide the interpretive lens for properly understanding and applying the Old Testament itself in a way that most completely magnifies God in Christ. (29)
Jesus supplies both the light and lens for reading the Old Testament rightly. "Light" indicates that interpreting the Old Testament properly is possible only for those who have seen "the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ" (2 Cor. 4:4). Only spiritual people can read a spiritual book (1 Cor. 2:13-14). "Lens" stresses that Jesus's life, death, and resurrection disclose truths in the Old Testament that were always there but not yet clear, at least to the majority (Rom. 16:25-26; 2 Cor. 3: 14). (113)
The New Testament provides both the answer key and the algorithm for reading the Old Testament in its fullness... Through Jesus, God enables and empowers us to read the Old Testament as he intended. (114)
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