To be joined to the incarnate Christ is what it means to be saved. When we are so joined to him, we receive all the benefits he accrued for us in his birth, baptism, life, death, resurrection, and ascension: the gifts and the Giver cannot be separated. This chapter seeks to highlight the way in which the incarnation is indispensable for how we view the glorious gifts of our Savior, how the enfleshing of God the Son provides the inner “theo-logic” of his saving benefits. Seeing that these benefits
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