The following is from Dr. Tom Ascol's article in March's Tabletalk magazine:
Old Testament believers and those who trusted Christ during His first advent were no less saved than any Christian since the coming of Christ, yet those who live on this side of the cross and resurrection are in a much better position than any of God's people who died before those events. We can see that all of God's promises have been guaranteed through the person and work of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 1:20). ... the only way a sinner can ever be justified before God is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. That has always been true, and now that Jesus has lived and died and been raised from the dead, it has been fully and finally revealed. That is what places those of us who live on this side of Christ's first coming in a more privileged position than even the greatest of our Old Testament brothers and sisters.
Ascol is currently the senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Florida, serves as the executive director of Founders Ministries, and authors the Founders Ministries Blog. Check out some of his messages at the Grace Baptist Church Web site or Monergism.com.
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