In Christ our spiritual deadness is overcome, our guilt and condemnation before God are removed, our captivity to sin is broken, our sanctification is made possible (and is empowered!), and all our hopes for freedom from this fallen world are made certain and secured. All these realities converge in 1 Corinthians 1:30.31 In the all-inclusive language of Newton, Jesus is mine: in him I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, an interest in all the promises and in all the perfections of God: he will guide me by his counsel, support me by his power, comfort me with his
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