JESUS REGARDED THE OLD TESTAMENT AS GOD'S WORD

We are told that Jesus explained his identity and purpose using Old Testament scripture as resource material. Please read this bit of evidence.

According to Luke’s account, there was an occasion soon after Christ’s resurrection from death and the grave, Jesus made an appearance to two of the disciples who were walking on a road that would take them from Jerusalem to Emmaus, seven miles away. They were as yet unaware of the resurrection reality and were discussing everything that had transpired over the past several days.
They rehearsed how some women had been to the tomb where Jesus’s body had been placed, and they had come back to the rest of the disciples reporting that the body was no longer there. Then some disciples had hurried to verify this and found their report to be accurate. Right then, as though coming up alongside them, Jesus gently interrupted their conversation with this remark, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

Then employing the writings of Moses and materials from the prophets, all of it Old Testament, Jesus explained details about himself that are found in those texts (Luke 24:25). It must have been an unusual third person type of explanation because still these two people were unaware it was Jesus walking and talking with them. It was only when they arrived at their destination and chose to invite him to join them for a meal, that the lights came on. It was in that instant that he took bread from the table and blessed it and broke it, and handed it to them that they recognized him. And then he vanished. They said to each other things such as, “Weren’t our hearts strangely warm while he was speaking to us as we walked and while he was explaining the Scriptures (Old Testament) to us.

Among the numerous reasons to cite as evidence that the Old Testament is God’s Word is this strongest of supports by Jesus himself. He repeatedly referred to scripture in his teaching ministry, giving evidence that he believed it to be inspired and trustworthy and applicable. It follows naturally it seems to me, that faith in Jesus requires a response to the Old Testament that is consistent with his.