by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
With whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the Word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise”
(Ephsians 1:13).Most careful commentaries of the Bible make it clear that the
words “after that,” in the above passage, actually have an immediate result in
view. Upon hearing (or heeding) we believed, and upon believing we were sealed
with the Spirit.
What is perhaps even more important to note, is the fact that
upon believing “the gospel of… salvation,” we are “sealed with” the “Holy
Spirit,” not “by” the Spirit. There is a difference between the two, which can
be simply illustrated.
Here is a housewife, let us say, who is “putting up” jam or
preserves and sealing each jar with wax. Now, the jars are being sealed by the
woman, but she is sealing them with wax. Thus the Holy Spirit does not merely
cause believers to be sealed and made secure. Rather He Himself is the Seal
that keeps us eternally secure as God’s beloved children. We are sealed, not
“by the Spirit,” but “with the Spirit,” — the Spirit Himself the Seal!
It is wonderful indeed to know that before the bar of God,
the simplest believer in Christ has been fully justified (Acts 13:38,39). But
this is a court action, a matter of law and justice. Besides this, the Spirit,
who first brought the sinner under conviction, now gives him life — eternal
life. This is why Rom. 8:2 tells us that “the law of the Spirit, [that] of life
in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” Thank God
for the Spirit, who convicts, regenerates and seals every believer in Christ!
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