Believers are presently citizens of heaven, and yet there is an eschatological proviso, for they await the promise of the resurrection (Phil. 3:20–21). Believers are now hidden with Christ in God, and yet they await Christ’s coming and future glory (Col. 3:3–4). God’s promises are fulfilled in Christ in the fullness of time, so that those who have the Spirit are God’s children (Gal. 4:4–6). The focus of NT theology is the supremacy of God in Christ through the Spirit, and hence we find that God’s
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