Men and women cannot know themselves until they know the reality of the God who made them, and once they know the holy God, their own sin appears so grievous that they cannot rest until they have fully appropriated Christ. The Old Testament precedes the New for an important spiritual reason. As Luther said, “Hunger is the best cook”; and the “law-work” of the Old Testament, as the Puritans would call it, was designed to awaken hunger for every dimension of redemption. The experience of the people