The Gospel of the Old Testament

This is the Gospel. It was preached to Adam after the fall; the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head: the first Gospel-sermon, delivered before the curse of God’s broken law had been pronounced. To Abraham it was preached in clearer terms; ” In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;” and by Moses to Israel, ” I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt.” Moses was the typical deliverer. In David, Christ was exhibited still more clearly; he is the true David, the real Beloved. And indeed if Christ was not preached, then were the saints of old not saved; for the Scripture says, “there is no other name under heaven whereby men can be saved.” “By the deeds of the law shall no man living be justified?” “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever;” yesterday under the law, to-day under the Gospel, and forever, the same one and only Saviour. If therefore, men under the former dispensation were saved at all, and we know assuredly they were, they must have been saved by Christ —by the Gospel. Read the rest HERE