Scripture as a whole. We need to be saved both from the power of our sin and from God’s wrath against it. We need to escape the just punishment of our transgression against a holy God, for ‘all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’ (Rom. 3:23). The essence of the gospel is that God has provided a way of escape. He has provided ‘so great a salvation’ (2:3) through his Son, Jesus Christ. The greatness of this salvation resides in several things. Firstly,
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