Yes, to the penitent, “Christ is all,” and faith and hope must center in him. He “was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification. Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Paul to the Romans). Do we understand that we are saved only through and by this divine person, this God-man? It is not a set of doctrines, or the sacraments of religion, or the intellectual belief in the historic Christ, or anything we can do or say or believe that brings us pardon and salvation, only as they are means by which we are brought to him who “was manifested to take away sins” (I. John 3:5).

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