Thank God—Sunday is almost here! Again, we get to go back to church. In order to help us prepare for Sabbath Worship, here are some great words from Jonathan Edwards, from his, “The History of the Work of Redemption” book. . . .
“If it had not been for the history of the Old Testament, how woefully should we have been left in the dark about many things which the church of God needs to know! How ignorant should we have been of God’s dealings towards mankind, and towards His church, from the beginning! We would have been wholly in the dark about the creation of the world, the Fall of man, the first rise and continued progress of the dispensations [eras] of grace towards fallen mankind! And we should have known nothing how God at first set up a church in the world, and how it was preserved; after what manner He govern-ed it from the beginning; how the light of the gospel first began to dawn in the world; how it increased, and how things were preparing for the coming of Christ.“If we are Christians, we belong to that building of God that has been the sub-ject of our discourse from this text; but if it had not been for the history of the Old Testament, we should never have known what was the first occasion of God’s going about this building, and how the foundation of it was laid at first, and how it has gone on from the beginning. . . . "
