1:12
Patience and endurance may sound rather dull, but Paul also wants them to be giving joyful thanks to the Father, for we have been qualified to “share in the inheritance of God’s holy people in the kingdom of light” .We have been qualified to receive a glorious inheritance. This counteracted some of the false teaching attacks on them. They were qualified, false teachings would try to tell them that they were not qualified, that they needed something more.
1:13,14
How were they qualified? God had rescued them from the dominion of darkness, and brought them into the kingdom of the Son who God loves. Through Christ we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. It is true that of ourselves we are not worth, but in Christ we are forgiven, our sins are no longer held against us.
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