The Old And The New

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Matthew 5:17

The Old Testament and the New are not two distinct books, but parts of the same. The New Testament is the rich ripe harvest of which the Old was the sowing and the early growing.

The gospel which we have in the New Testament is not a different religion from that which we have in the Old Testament, but the same more fully developed, more clearly taught.

In the Old Testament, Christ was
foretold sometimes in prophetic promise, sometimes in picture and type; in the New, these promises are fulfilled, these pictures and types find their realization, and we see the Son of God walking among men in the beauty and glory of His incarnation.

Christ didn’t destroy past divine revelation when He came, rather he filled them out in His life and death. So we shouldn’t put away our Old Testament thinking it’s of no value to us since we have the gospel.

The Old Testament is full of precious things. One of the strongest proofs of Christianity is the wonderful fulfilment of Old Testament prophecies in the life, sufferings, and death of Jesus Christ. Let us love the whole Bible; not one word of it is outdated.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away” Luke 21:33