point of Scripture centres around what God has done in Jesus Christ. The New Testament continually proclaims that what God had promised in ages past, what the Old Testament prophets anticipated, God has now brought to fulfilment in the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus—the greatest display of the mighty acts of God. That is why expressions of fulfilment are everywhere in the New Testament (cf. Mark 1:15; Luke 4:21; Gal. 4:4). Second, as important as it is to affirm that God acts in
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