our own way by our performance. We try to live by good works rather than by grace. The Christian’s debt has been paid by the death of Christ. The law of God and the justice of God have been fully satisfied. The debt of our sins has been marked “Paid in Full!” God is satisfied and so are we. We have peace with God, and we are delivered from a guilty conscience (see Romans 5:1, Hebrews 10:22). We are brought into God’s kingdom by grace; we are sanctified (the process of growing in our faith to become
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