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For those of us in Christ, we are washed clean by the blood of the Lamb. God sees us clothed in Christ\u2019s righteousness \u2013 His perfection, not our own \u2013 which means that God sees me as His beloved child. The words He spoke over Jesus at His baptism \u2013 \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased\u201d \u2013 are the words that He speaks over those of us who belong to Jesus. God loves us and is pleased with us because of what Jesus has done for us. At the same time, the righteousness we are clothed in isn\u2019t just a fiction or a falsehood. God begins to sanctify us, which means that He works in our hearts to make us holy, so that our salvation becomes to get \u201cworked out.\u201d He does a work in our hearts, and then that work comes out in our lives, so that we gradually begin to look more and more like Jesus in how we live and act and speak. We have days where we look more like Jesus than others, and God as a good Father sometimes disciplines us when we fail, not to punish us, but to grow us up until we look more like Jesus. That\u2019s His goal for us, and that\u2019s our great hope.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of us in Christ, we are washed clean by the blood of the Lamb. God sees us clothed in Christ\u2019s righteousness \u2013 His perfection, not our own \u2013 which means that God sees me as His beloved child. 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