God’s work is not finished with our justification, but it also includes our sanctification. We are drawn behind the veil and transformed by the Spirit of the Lord. It is the work of God that does both of these things. Sanctification is a continuation or a further application of that complete work of atonement or salvation being applied in our […]

Moses put a veil on his face because of the glory that was represented by the giving of the law. But Paul now gives a second reason for the veil. Not only could the Israelites not look steadily at the brilliant glory, but what they were looking at was passing away. John Calvin says that the passing away of the […]

Paul goes on and says that the gospel is superior because it is the ministry of righteousness as opposed to the ministry of condemnation. We all stand under the law and in and of ourselves that law condemns us. We cannot be saved by our obedience. And so Paul can rightly call the Old Testament law a ministry of condemnation. […]