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This chapter on the reign of death, not just individual sin, and reign of life found in Jesus who gives life in the Father through the Spirit enters the former in order to defeat it from within. The temptations and work of Jesus all point to how he can defeat the reign of death (I am what I do, I am who other say I am, I am what I possess). I love: Jesus not only saves us from death, he also saves us for life.

Jesus incarnate is the best proof God doesn’t hate our humanity, because humanity is redeemed in the flesh by God becoming flesh, in a social location and circumstance much like ours, abused, mistreated, shamed, ridiculed, and yet not lose his humanity and took shortcuts as our foreparents did in the Garden of Eden. Our perfection by human standard (which really is the enemies’ standard isn’t the goal).

God with us and God through us, joy and holiness, reorient our life from guilt, shame from sin and a mean God to the purpose of plan of God to reconcile us. Not set apart by a taskmaster, but invited into family business as children of the most high King.