Having looked at the major role which Christ‟s resurrection and kingship played in the way the first believers confronted the surrounding cultures by their rejection of, and separation from, paganism, and in their preaching of the gospel, I now turn to the part played by the resurrection and the kingdom in the progressive sanctification1 of the first believers; as for the resurrection, I mean, of course, that of Christ himself, and of his people spiritually in him now and physically at his return. So, how did the resurrection and the kingdom affect the early believer‟s progressive sanctification? |