of Christ. We know that, when the Lord comes, we shall be made like him (1 Jn. 3:2). For that reason, perhaps, evangelical Christians have discounted the importance of the transformation that the Lord seeks now, before his coming. Paul laboured night and day to present the church as a pure virgin to Christ (2 Cor. 11:2). He did not limit his work to saving souls, in the relaxed confidence that the Lord would finish their sanctification when the trumpet sounds. Rather, his prayer and labour for the
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