Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?
A. 20. From all eternity and merely because it pleased Him, God chose some to have everlasting life. These He freed from sin and misery by a covenant of grace and brought them to salvation by a redeemer.
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God the Holy Spirit also has an important part in the covenant made with God and His people. Sin has blinded our minds so we cannot understand the gospel on our own. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual understanding so God's people can understand the gospel when they hear it. Left to themselves, people like their sin. They do not worry about God's anger towards it. The Holy Spirit changes the hearts of God's people so they hate their sin and turn to Christ to save them from it. God the Son earned all the blessings of the covenant of grace for His people. God the Holy Spirit takes those blessings and applies them to the specific people whom God has chosen.
Some of the blessings Jesus has earned for His people will not be given until Jesus comes again. Until then. the Holy Spirit lives inside them. He is the promise that they finally will receive everything Jesus earned for them. If you have believed in Jesus as you savior, how thankful should you be to the Holy Spirit for giving you understanding of the gospel and for changing your heart so you could believe in Christ!
Ephesians 1:13-14
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
- Training Hearts, Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism
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