THE GLORY OF THE GOSPEL



"According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God." -I TIMOTHY 1:11 [KJV]
The ceremonial law contained many a type and shadow of Messiah; but the gospel is the history of His advent and mediatorial work. The ceremonial law pointed to the coming Prince of Peace; but the gospel brings Him to His throne, and puts the crown upon His head. Christ is "the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of His person" and Moses and Aaron are lost in His light, as the moon and the stars are lost in the blaze of the rising sun. The excellence of His person, the merit of His sacrifice, and the utility of His offices, give Him an immense superiority. The many prophets, priests and kings of the former dispensation, were but the shadows cast by the one great Prophet, Priest and King, which indicated His coming. A light arose from the cross of Calvary, which turned the black cloud on Sinai into a pillar of glory.

Typical blood shielded the children of Israel from the arm of the destroying angel, healed the leper, anointed to holy offices, atoned for ceremonial sins, and sealed the covenant of God with His people; but never canceled the sinner’s debt, nor satisfied his conscience, nor sanctified his affections, nor calmed his trembling spirit in the hour of death. All these blessings, however, flow from the blood of Christ–these, and infinitely more–more than tongue can tell, or heart conceive.

The gospel is emphatically the ministration of mercy–the covenant of grace, "ordered in all things and sure"–a goodly ship, freighted with the bread of life and commanded by the Son of God, Who has steered into the harbor of our famishing world, and is dispensing the precious provision to all His people. These are the "sure mercies of David."


–Gospel report by preacher C. Evans

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