The first lesson each believer in Christ should learn is that
immediately upon believing he is given everlasting life. Referring to
this fact Ephesians 1:13,14 says:
“In whom ye also trusted, having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.”
Mark well, the believer is not sealed by the Holy Spirit, but
“with” the Hly Spirit. The Spirit Himself is the seal. Every
sincere believer in Christ, then, should rejoice in an accomplished
redemption and rest in the fact that the Holy Spirit will keep him
eternally safe.
But while we cannot lose the Holy Spirit we can, and often do,
grieve the Holy Spirit, as we read in Eph. 4:30. This is why we are
told in Rom. 8:26 that the Spirit “helpeth our infirmities” and
makes intercession for us, that we might live lives which please and
honor God.]
The wonderful fact is, however, that “nothing,” not even an
aggrieved Spirit shall “separate us from the love of God” (Rom.
8:38,39). Thus in the same breath with which the Apostle exhorts us
not to grieve the Spirit he again reassures us that this same Spirit
keeps us eternally safe:]
“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption” (Eph. 4:30).
Does this encourage careless living? Those who think so have
missed the whole point of Paul’s appeal. The Apostle does not warn
the believer that if he grieves the Spirit he will be lost. Rather,
in grace he exhorts:
“Do not grieve the very Spirit who in mercy and love has sealed you as forever His own. Do not repay such love with such ingratitude.”
How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
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Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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