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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances it promises you a better life.

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We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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