Some years ago a popular pastor told his congregation that Christians need to “unhitch” themselves from the Old Testament. His plea to his church and his listening audience was to put their focus mainly on Jesus and the New Testament because that Old Testament can’t really be trusted. Truth is satan loves to live in the realm of half-truths. Pointing people to Jesus, while telling them to avoid His words in the Old Testament, is actually turning people away from Christ. The Apostle Paul implores the Corinthian church to not be ignorant of the Old Testament. They must study it, know it, and learn from it so they don’t fall in the same way ancient Israel fell.