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  Question 58. How can we be made partakers of the benefits that Christ has obtained? Answer. We are made partakers of the benefits that Christ has obtained, especially by the application of these benefits to us by the work of the Holy Spirit. As believers are united with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross, they participate in the benefits of the grace that Christ has obtained. Romans 6:3-5 “ Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried with him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection. ” When the saint believes that he was resurrected with Jesus, a temple is established in the saint's heart by the power of the Holy Spirit, and when Jesus...

  Question 57. What benefits does Christ provide by his mediation? Answer. Christ provides redemption by his mediation, along with all other benefits of the covenant of grace. Since Jesus mediates between God and sinners, Jesus takes away sin and cleanses the conscience of believers through his blood that he died on the cross for the saints. Hebrews 9:14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? The righteousness of Jesus Christ, who offered his body once for all on the cross and who is now seated at the right hand of God after his resurrection, is transferred to the saints, so that they are made holy once for all. Hebrews 10:10 "By that will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."