![]() ![]() ![]() In Acts, Paul encounters the risen Christ and is literally blinded by the experience. The earliest followers of Jesus experienced complete transformation. This paradox of salvation between the “already/not yet” runs throughout Paul’s letter and the rest of the New Testament. We have already experienced the power of God’s salvation, but our salvation is not yet complete. We have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, but it is only the first fruits-the best is yet to come. ![]() Paul goes on and tells us about the first fruits of the Spirit. Hope sits at the intersection of the “already” and “not yet.” In other words, in Paul’s words from Romans today, hope is that Christian experience of both all of God’s glory and, paradoxically, human suffering: “I consider the suffering of this present time not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us” (Rom. How do we answer these questions in our own context? How does the Spirit function in our lives? What does it do? What does it lead us to do or not do? Paul invites these questions as he asks and answers them. All of Romans 8 is Paul’s theological exposition of the Spirit. ![]()
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