The Spirit Of Promise
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“[Having] believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise” (Ephesians 1:13).
Of all the wonderful Scripture passages on the eternal
security of the believer in Christ, this is perhaps the most blessed of all.
“[Having] heard the Word of truth you believed,” says the
Apostle, and “[having] believed, you were sealed.” Now a seal speaks of
finality and permanency, whether it be the official seal on an important
document, the seal on an electric transformer or the seal on a jar of
preserves. But the most blessed fact of all is that the believer in Christ is
“sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.” Mark well, he is sealed not by the
Spirit but with the Spirit; the Spirit Himself is the seal.
Here, let us say, is a woman sealing jars of preserves
with wax. The jars are sealed by the woman, but with the wax. Thus the humblest
believer is sealed with the Spirit. It is He Himself who keeps us safe in
Christ through all eternity.
And this is but the “earnest,” the first installment, “of
our inheritance” (Ver. 14), for the Spirit keeps us secure in “this present
evil age” so that “in the ages to come” God might show “the exceeding riches of
His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (2:7).
Little wonder the Apostle closes this passage on our
security with those appropriate words: “To the praise of His glory” (1:14).
What some theologians have called “the perseverance of
saints” is not our perseverance at all, but God’s faithfulness. We have not
persevered; He has preserved us by His grace for His glory.
This is The Gospel
Believing Christ DIED,
that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED
for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16,
Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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