The same is the case with the great salvation of which their experience was a type: “For he has rescued as from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves” (Col. 1:13). The preacher of the gospel is sent to fulfil this positive purpose: “I am sending you to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me” (Acts 26:17-18). If the bringing out is wonderful - and it is - the bringing in is more glorious still.
Exhortations and prayers in the Epistles encourage us to enter fully in to the riches of our salvation in Christ: “that you may know . . . the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints’ (Eph. 1:18-19). Equally relevant are the solemn reminders in Deuteronomy of those who through disobedience and unbelief failed to enter the promised land. “So, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts’” (Heb. 3:7).
“He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’”
Deuteronomy 6:23 NASB1995
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