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Salvation Applied by The Spirit: Union with Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The doctrine of believers’ union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine—a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most comprehensive...

Paul thus communicates his appreciation for Epaphroditus to the Philippians: “Receive him in the Lord with all joy” (Phil. 2:29). Other texts include Romans 15:17; 16:2; 1 Corinthians 4:17; 15:31; Ephesians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; and 2 Thessalonians 3:12. Many texts use “in Christ” to present Jesus as the personal object of belief or hope. Paul does this when he writes, “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied” (1 Cor. 15:19). Additional
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