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Pilgrim said:
QUESTION: How do you reconcile this when in the Scriptures we see sinners being called to faith, to believe in Christ, in order to BE justified if justification by faith is a secret and sovereign work of the Holy Spirit alone of which no man has a part and which he does not experience anything?

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Eph. 2:8, 9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.

The only essential and necessary elements of justfication are the grace of God, the merit of Christ, and faith which is solely a work of the Holy Spirit. Man has no part in this work. He is entirely passive in the proper reception of Word and Sacrament through which the Holy Spirit works regeneration and faith.