Enoch testifies that those who eagerly seek God in worship, by faith, are brought into his presence as a foretaste of the Last Day and in the end will be rewarded with full and free access into the God's glorious presence.
Abel bears testimony to the reality that sinners can only enter God’s presence by faith in one who would shed his blood to grant that entrance.
The Old Testament shows us that the purpose of the visible gifts of God to the saints of old was to bear testimony to them of greater things to come, things we have in Christ.
Christ came as the final revelation of the Father to do that which the Law could not do – show God’s heavenly kindness in fullness and bring salvation.
Faith is an enduring refusal to let go of Jesus Christ, knowing that blessing is found in him alone.
To belong to Jesus is to be confident that a heavenly inheritance awaits you, but to reject him is to throw away that confidence.
Those who reject the New Covenant are left with only their sin and the promise of eternal judgment, having spurned the only one who can deliver them.
Each week, as we gather together in worship, we enter into God’s Sabbath Rest, the age to come, through the means of grace, where we find encouragement to walk through our earthly pilgrimage with love and good works.
The result of Christ’s perfect sacrifice is that your guilty conscience has been done away with, which means your fellowship with God does not change from day to day.
Christ, at his first coming, inaugurated the Age to Come and will return to bring it to consummation.
The fact that Jesus shed his blood on the cross means that a new covenant has been enacted, one that provides a solution for the Old Covenant’s demand for death for transgressors.
While the ministry of the tabernacle was a constant picture of mankind’s reality in Adam, Jesus brings a better ministry where he removes the shame of sinners and grants them access to God.
As a sacrament of the New Covenant, baptism preaches the message of the Gospel to God’s people and seals it with His promise that all trust in the blood of Jesus will be saved.
The Old Covenant, because it deals with man’s righteousness ends in God’s neglect of the people, but the New Covenant, because it deals with God’s grace, ends in God’s remembering their sins no more.
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