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Christ Our Efficacious Sacrifice

Galatians 3:14

The atonement of Christ is followed by the Spirit’s mighty operations of grace in regeneration and effectual calling, giving chosen, redeemed sinners life and faith in Christ. God the Spirit tells us that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law that “the blessing of Abraham…the promise of the Spirit” would come upon all his redeemed ones. In his first epistle, the apostle Peter addresses believers as the “elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.”

As the atoning work of our great Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, was limited in design by the purpose of God in election, so the regenerating work of God the Holy Spirit is limited by the atoning work of Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God never regenerates any except those that were purchased by the Son and chosen by the Father. As Bro. Jesse Gistand once stated, as he preached a message from Ezekiel 37, “Where the blood don’t flow the Spirit don’t go.”

But God the Holy Ghost always regenerates and irresistibly calls those who are chosen and redeemed to life and faith in Christ. The sacrifice of Christ is an effectual atonement for our sins. His death at Calvary is redemption accomplished. The Spirit’s work of grace in regeneration is redemption applied.

Don Fortner

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