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What is our identity in Christ? To answer the question, Mackintosh takes a cue from Paul’s epistles to Timothy. The first letter begins with instructions about Timothy’s role in a flourishing church. The second letter, however, describes a fractured and broken church in which Timothy barely copes. In this more difficult context, Paul implores Timothy to persevere in spite of challenging...

forth, in the mighty words of the Holy Ghost, the grand fact of the entire setting aside of the first man, as utterly worthless and condemned? The latter, most assuredly. Christianity starts, as it were, from the open grave of the Second Man, to pursue its bright career onward to eternal glory. It is, emphatically, a new creation in which there is not so much as a single shred of the old thing—for in this “all things are of God.” And if “all things” are of God, there can be nothing of man. What rest!
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