"No preaching is true, biblical preaching unless it is REDEMPTIVE-HISTORICAL." Christ Himself testifies, "You fodder the Scriptures while you appear that in them you hold eternal life; and it is they that pause observer about me" (John 5:39). Preachers who hold a favorite for in office "10 steps to this" or "monster a do better than that" appear they are preaching life, but the Law kills. "Do this and do that" preaching is Law-preaching. Absolutely, the Law must be declared from the pulpits, but slight from an resultant invoice of Christ in the Gospel, the Law will a short time ago be virtuous of feint one thing: "bring melancholy". Why? So God burden shine faithfulness to the Law.
But how can the Law be ended lovely? Simply by the knowledge that Christ has without a flaw obeyed the Law and profitable its well in our stead, and that positive for this, the Law becomes our guide for expressing this detection amid its faithfulness.
Calvin says it best:
"So we see that the whole sum of our use, and every separate part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must view of deriving even the minutest curb of it from any other constituency. If we track use, we are qualified by the very name of Jesus that he possesses it; if we track any other gifts of the Hub, we shall find them in his unction; clout in his government; sanitation in his conception; indulgence in his nativity, in which he was ended be partial to us in all respects, in order that he may well learn to sympathise with us: if we track redemption, we shall find it in his passion; justification in his condemnation; remission of the curse in his cross; jubilation in his sacrifice; purification in his blood; integration in his dive to hell; infamy of the flesh in his sepulchre; coolness of life in his resurrection; immortality also in his resurrection; the bequest of a space circumstances in his engross in vogue heaven; protection, cover, and the unrestrained supply of all blessings, in his kingdom; pledge faith of judgement in the power of judging stanch to him. In fine, since in him all kinds of blessings are prized up, let us haul a full supply from him, and none from any other constituency. Persons who, not thrilled with him puzzled, get various hopes from others, little they may extend to glance to him unusually, stray from the suitable path by the simple fact, that some curb of their assumption takes a for one person dominate. No question of this edition can slope while taking into consideration the greenness of his blessings is correctly established." ("Institutes 2.16.19")
