God the Father “has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ” (Eph. 1:3). The Lord Jesus Christ “gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age” (Gal. 1:4), so that in a blessed sense the powers of the age to come have broken in now for those who are united to the risen Christ by faith. Yet it remains true that the church continues to live in this age, the present age, this evil age, and will do so until Christ comes again. And that fact speaks volumes
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