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has passed through a process not only to re deem us, but also to make it possible for us to enjoy Him as grace. Today the One we enjoy as our grace is the Triune God who has passed through incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrec tion. As such a One, He is ready for us to take and enjoy.
John 1:17 says that the law was given through Moses, but grace came through Jesus Christ. When this grace becomes ours in our experi ence, we then enjoy the Triune God, and we can speak of my grace, our grace. Our grace is the very Triune God enjoyed by us.
THE DEFENSE AND CONFIRMATION
OF THE GOSPEL
Paul experienced God both in his impris onment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. Paul defended the gospel, on the negative side, from perverting and distorting heresies, such as Judaism, dealt with in Gala tians, and Gnosticism, dealt with in Colossians. Paul confirmed the gospel, on the positive side, with all the revelations of God's mysteries con cerning Christ and the church as unveiled in Paul's Epistles.
The goal of the gospel is Christ and the