Question 66: What are sacraments?

Question 66: What are sacraments?

Answer: A sacrament is a visible holy sign or seal, ordained by God, not only to enable us who use it to understand more clearly the promises of the gospel, but also to seal them with his own seal.

 This is the gospel promised by God, that he, by grace, pardons our sins and gives us eternal life through the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
The night before his crucifixion, Jesus spoke of the New Covenant. After breaking bread, he said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood." Those who are in Jesus Christ become participants in the New Covenant. Those who are in Jesus Christ are those who are united with Jesus, who died on the cross, and are buried with him.

It is the believer's belief that Jesus died for his sins and the acceptance of that death as his own. Therefore, the believer becomes dead to the law (Galatians 2:19), to sin (Romans 6:2), and to the world (Galatians 6:14). Romans 6:3 also says, "Do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" The believer's union with Jesus' death is participation in the new covenant.

In other words, those who are born again participate in the new covenant. Therefore, it means that those who are born again are justified by faith. Not just anyone can be born again by believing in Jesus, but only those who are united with Jesus' death are reborn. Therefore, they participate in the new covenant.

Romans 8:14-17 “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him in order that we may also share in his glory.”
The Holy Spirit's guarantee is not a guarantee through the sacrament, but rather a guarantee that the saints remember the Holy Spirit's guarantee while commemorating the ceremony called the sacrament.

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