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(Heb.1:10–2:3; Mark 2:1–12) “I am the door: whoever enters through Me will be saved” (John 10:9). This is the same as what the Lord says elsewhere: “no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). And He confirmed the same even more when He said: “Without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). He is a Christian who is entirely in Christ, and whoever has anything valuable in himself has it all from Christ. His justification is Christ's, and his body is also Christ's. He who is saved is saved because he is clothed in Christ. In this only position he has access to the Father. We are those who have fallen away from God and for this reason we are angry. Only then does God’s truth recede and His mercy extends to us and accepts us approaching, when we approach in Christ and about Christ. The seal of Christ is imprinted on the entire nature of a Christian, and the one who wears it will walk in the midst of the shadow of death and will not fear evil. In order to be like this, we have the sacraments - baptism and communion, mediated by repentance for those who sin after baptism. But this is on behalf of the Lord; on our part, in order to accept them, an acceptable disposition must be formed in the spirit - a faith that confesses: I am lost and am saved only by the Lord Jesus Christ; love that is jealous to devote everything to the Lord Savior, sparing nothing; a hope that, without expecting anything from itself, is confident that it will not be abandoned by the Lord, but will have all kinds of help from Him - both internal and external - throughout life, until it is taken to where He Himself is. You might be interested in: