3. Apart from common grace, the sentence of physical death hangs over all humanity.19 4. Survival does not mean our problems are solved. It is possible to live physically, but still to lack spiritual life, which is possible only through covenant relationship with God. 5. God’s grace is the only hope for a lost humanity. By nature destitute, this is the only solution for the human condition. 6. Covenant relationship with God is the highest privilege imaginable. 7. As the objects of God’s saving and
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