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"Christ for us," the obedient in the room of the disobedient, is the first
part of our message.
"Christ in us" is the second part of our gospel. This second is of mighty moment, and yet is not to be confounded with the first. That which is done ‘for’ us is not the same as that which is done ‘in’ us…
“Christ for us" is our justification. "Christ in us, and we in Christ," is our holiness.

“The serpent-bitten Israelite was to look at the uplifted serpent of brass in order to be healed. But his looking was not the brazen serpent...It was not his ‘act’ of looking that healed him, but the ‘object’ to which he looked. So faith is not our righteousness: it merely knits us to the righteous One, and makes us partakers of His righteousness.

It’s not faith by itself that saves. But faith in Christ!

“The simplest, feeblest faith suffices; for it is not the excellence of our act of faith that [saves] us, but the excellence of Him who suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. His perfection suffices to cover not only that which is imperfect in our lives, but that which is imperfect in our faith, when we believe on His name.”

This book will fill you with deep gratitude for grace

Can already tell this might become my favorite book on Justification