Christ Is the Content, Center, and Key to All the Scriptures
The text for today is Luke 24:44-47: Then [Jesus] said to them, “These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem .” This is the Word of the Lord. Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Dr. Mortimer Adler taught a class at the University of Chicago on “The Great Books of the Western World.” On one occasion Dr. Adler turned to one of his brightest students and asked her to summarize one the books for the class. She had just gotten a high A on her examination for that very book, but she ...