people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). In this way, Christians are “a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17), now able to believe, to repent, to love God, to love God’s people, and to love a world in need of the Savior. Now we are able to hunger and thirst for God. Now we are able to loathe sin and fight against it. And fight we must! This first aspect of our sanctification leads naturally to the second,