Continued from I peter

There is no aspect of the Gospel which is not in Christ. He is the mystery of God for all time in this world. He is the second Adam who accomplished everything that the first Adam did not, and he accomplished it for us so that we might become the righteousness of God.

What is that ‘becoming’ but repentance of sin and a union with the life of God? And this is possible not because we met God’s salvation with our repentance