The word “God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness” (1 Thessalonians 4:7) lets us see what God, who called us, accomplished first. For us sinners to come to the holy God, the sin in our hearts must first disappear. That is why Jesus had all the sins of the world, including our sins, transferred to Him once and for all by receiving baptism from John; because of that sin He received judgment in our place on the Cross, shedding His blood and dying; and He rose again from death. God did not call us holy while leaving our sin as it was; rather, He actually removed our sin in this way and then called us. Therefore, we who believe in this gospel of the water and the Spirit have already become people who have received holiness, and our salvation does not depend on a sinner’s own resolve to make himself clean.
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