“You have been delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of his beloved Son–in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

You have been bought with a price. You are not your own. You have not been delivered unto your own wiles, but into the kingdom of Christ. Your price of slavery was the blood of the Son of God so that you may be owned, not by this world, nor by your own self, but that you may be a servant of righteousness–delivered into the blessed slavery of the kingdom of the risen Son of God.

The gospel is not your self-improvement project.

The gospel is your beautiful, gracious, taskmaster. It is your master because you have been adopted by its Author, our loving heavenly father; its task is to deliver others from the domain of darkness into the kingdom of his beloved Son.