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For Paul a new world-age has already been inaugurated with the events surrounding the sending of Christ and the Spirit. These two agents bring God’s future salvation into the present. To be in Christ and to have the Spirit in you is to enter the Spirit’s “realm,” a realm that is governed by the power of God’s future (Rom 8:9). (Wells, 105)