these. The gospel is God’s way of dealing with his “problem” of how he, a holy and just God, can justify and accept the sinner. Only God’s wisdom is great enough to devise a plan that will achieve this. Second, it is the gospel of the Old Testament. An important part of biblical theology is to try to understand how the promises given in the Old Testament are actually fulfilled in the New. In other words, the Christian’s use of the Old Testament is guided by the way we see its message relating to