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The other notable thing about this verse is the way Paul carefully intertwined the status of justification and the reception of the Holy Spirit. In vv. 1–5 Paul appealed to his Galatian converts to recall how the Holy Spirit was poured out upon them when they first heard the preaching of the cross. In vv. 6–13 he has shown how on the basis of Christ’s redemptive work God reckons as righteous those who have faith. Here he linked the two, being justified and receiving the Spirit, in the closest possible way. As S. Williams has put it: “The experience of the Spirit and the status of justification are, for the apostle, inconceivable apart from each other. Each implies the other. Those persons upon whom God bestows the Spirit are justified; the persons whom God reckons righteous have the Spirit poured out upon them.”
Still, these terms are not identical, nor can they be used interchangeably. Indeed, we can say that here in v. 14 Paul brought together three key soteriological concepts that will dominate the later discussion in Galatians: justification, redemption, and regeneration. Each represents a distinct dimension of the salvation effected by Christ. Through pardon and acquittal Christ has removed our condemnation (justification). He has also set us free from the power of sin and death (redemption) and bestowed upon us a new life in the Spirit (regeneration). The good news of how this has happened and what it means Paul called “gospel” and “blessing.” Now for the first time he introduced a new word, “promise,” which both reaches back to the gospel of grace revealed in the blessing of Abraham and looks forward to the new life of liberty and love to which those who are in Christ have been called.