Question 30: How does the Holy Spirit apply to us the redemption Christ purchased?

 

Question 30: How does the Holy Spirit apply to us the redemption Christ purchased?

Answer: The Holy Spirit applies to us the redemption Christ purchased by working faith in us and uniting us to Christ through our effectual calling.

 

The doctrine says that union with Jesus Christ produces faith, but faith comes after union with the death of Jesus Christ. The order is reversed. If you do not repent, faith from heaven is not given. Otherwise, you are under the law. Those who do not die with Jesus cannot receive faith from heaven.

That faith is Jesus Christ. It is the faith that I died with Jesus who died on the cross, and that I received the life of resurrection with Jesus who was resurrected. The door of faith that God opened to the Gentiles is the door of faith that unites with Christ.

Before a believer is united with Christ, it is his own faith. However, when a believer realizes the meaning of baptism and is united with Christ, faith comes. Romans 6:5-6 "Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we too should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection."

Romans 7:4-6 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

This means that those who are under the law are not those who are united with Christ and are dead. Those who are not united with the dead body of Jesus Christ are under the law, and therefore, they do not have faith in Jesus. In the end, it is nothing more than their own faith.

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