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looking forward to the new world that God would make , in which they would obtain the true inheritance .
Once again , then , his argument , now being rounded off before the final main section of the letter in chapters 11 and 12 , returns to the theme of confident hope and patience . The troubles you ’ re going through at the moment , he says , are just what you should expect , granted the fact that the promised new age has already broken in to the present time through Jesus himself - or , if you like , that Jesus has gone on ahead of us into God ’ s future world , and is already there on our behalf - and that we are therefore out of tune with the present world because we are in tune with the future one . Once you realize that , you have every possible motive to hold on in faith , not to hesitate and waver ( verse 39 ). Those who hesitate or shrink back are in danger , as he said in the previous passage , of losing everything . Those who hold on in faith , as Jesus himself had promised , will gain their lives .
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N . T . Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews , Scotland , and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall , Oxford . He is the author of numerous books , including Paul : A Biography , On Earth as in Heaven : Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians and What Did the Cross Accomplish ? A Conversation about the Atonement ( with Simon Gathercole and Robert B . Stewart ).
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