The Goal of Atonement

"The atonement was about Christ's conquest over sin, death, and the devil so that the whole of life might be cleansed and restored, that Christ's reign might be established, uncontested, and unobstructed" (David Wells, "The Courage to be Protestant," 197).

We aren't there yet, but that is where we are headed. Our confidence is bound up in the all sufficient work of Christ in bearing our sin, in our place, and in that act bearing the penalty of our sin, and overcoming the powers of evil behind it (Col 2:13-15).