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Pick up a copy, open to Chapter 1 (“The Person of the Holy Spirit”), and ask the Author of the book to make you holy. Disclaimer: This review is based on a thorough reading of the text. If you are referring to a different series with the initials RST, the thematic analysis of “Spirit and Salvation” remains applicable to the general structure of Reformed theology on these topics.

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Without the Spirit, the Cross remains a historical event, not a personal reality. The chapter on “The Ordo Salutis (Order of Salvation) by the Spirit” is worth the price of the book alone. 2. Union with Christ: The Hub of the Wheel Many systematic theologies list salvation as a checklist: Calling, Regeneration, Faith, Repentance, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification, Perseverance, Glorification. RST Vol. 3 keeps these distinct but never separate. Pick up a copy, open to Chapter 1

The organizing principle is . The authors argue that every other blessing—justification (a legal status), sanctification (a moral process), and adoption (a familial relationship)—flows out of this mystical, real union. “Salvation is not a package of goods dropped from heaven; it is a sharing in the life of the risen Son through the power of the indwelling Spirit.” This reframing solves the old “Lordship Salvation” debates. If you are united to Christ, you are united to Him in His death (dying to sin) and His resurrection (walking in newness of life). You cannot split the Savior. 3. Solving the Sanctification Crisis Perhaps the most practically useful section deals with Sanctification . The modern church is polarized: on one side, legalism (“Try harder”); on the other, antinomianism (“Let go and let God”). Spirit and Salvation charts a third way. Enter RST Vol