The perfection of the very imperfect Christian (Thomas Manton on Philippians 3.15)

The solid and irremovable ground on which the Christian life rests is the free justifying grace of God by faith in Christ. Yet those being redeemed possess a very imperfect nature and so their life experience as they journey with Christ is lived between Paul’s words in Romans 7.24, 25, “O wretched man that I