Spirit who gives life.” And unless you are born of the Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5). So we have life by being connected with the Son of God who is our life, and we have that life by the work of the Spirit. We concluded, therefore, that the work of the Spirit in regeneration is to impart new life to us by uniting us to Christ. The way John Calvin says it is: “The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ effectually unites us to himself.”9 Then we saw the connection with faith
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