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Salvation Applied by The Spirit: Union with Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

The doctrine of believers’ union with Christ has undergone a renaissance in recent years. Evangelicals are rightly fascinated by this previously neglected doctrine—a doctrine with wide-ranging implications for the whole of Christian theology and the Christian life. Drawing on his extensive teaching and research experience, theologian Robert Peterson has written one of the most comprehensive...

is time to sum up: the Holy Spirit acts in adoption to unite us to Christ and bring us all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities that accompany it. . Paul teaches this in Romans 6, where he returns to the false charge of antinomianism previously lodged against him (cf. 3:8). He has just written, “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” (5:20), from which his enemies wrongly deduce that he is teaching antinomianism.
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