The Holy Spirit an Invisible Signet
Eph. 1:13 (ESV)“In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,”
Once we put our faith and trust in Christ as our savior, we become a child of God adopted and placed into the family of God. I read a book about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which I found only to mutilate and twist scripture to support the view. From simply reading the scriptures and praying over them one can only come to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit is given completely in all his power to us. Now of course we must grow in sanctification and trust, giving more of our lives over to the Spirit before we truly begin to experience true Holy Spirit power.
So where is the Holy Spirit, I mean I can’t see it how do I know that it exist? I have a friend who I debate religion with, he believes that there is a God who set things in motion, but that is as far as it really goes. He believes that all religions are getting to the same place just different ways, he is searching to find which religion he should believe. One day I was talking to him about knowing God exist, and the change that took place in my life, and he went into it being all emotional. Now I know something he doesn’t it was more than an emotional experience, in fact it was greater than any feeling it was a peace that passes understanding, and it is a lasting peace. A peace which my friend is searching for, a voice that speaks in the still small quiet voice, telling me things different than the world tells.
Now I come to our verse here, and I want to focus on the word sealed. Now used to I think oh you know we have a seal that is set about us, calling it the Holy Spirit. Then I looked up the word sealed and root word and I was amazed at what I found, and how that it just makes all scripture to gel more and more. The word means to stamp and keep secret. The thing that is most intriguing about this is, my friend just could not understand what it is that makes Christianity so real to me. It is just that, the invisible stamp which he could not understand or comprehend. John 14:17 (ESV)“Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.” Do you see it, the Spirit of truth lives in me and I understand the love, but my friend cannot understand it because he neither see him nor knows him. You see I know the Father and have trusted the Father through the Son, and he has manifest himself to me, and not in a way which the world can receive or understand, but in the form of His invisible Spirit. Joh 14:21 (ESV)“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
Psa 139:2-12 (ESV)“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.”
Oh Father in heaven where can I go from you presence O Lord? You are every where and in all things, yet you choose to make yourself known to me and to speak to me, loving me with an everlasting love, giving me life before death. Thank you Father for your wonderful graces, and the great and wonderful gift of your Holy Spirit.
Once we put our faith and trust in Christ as our savior, we become a child of God adopted and placed into the family of God. I read a book about the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, which I found only to mutilate and twist scripture to support the view. From simply reading the scriptures and praying over them one can only come to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit is given completely in all his power to us. Now of course we must grow in sanctification and trust, giving more of our lives over to the Spirit before we truly begin to experience true Holy Spirit power.
So where is the Holy Spirit, I mean I can’t see it how do I know that it exist? I have a friend who I debate religion with, he believes that there is a God who set things in motion, but that is as far as it really goes. He believes that all religions are getting to the same place just different ways, he is searching to find which religion he should believe. One day I was talking to him about knowing God exist, and the change that took place in my life, and he went into it being all emotional. Now I know something he doesn’t it was more than an emotional experience, in fact it was greater than any feeling it was a peace that passes understanding, and it is a lasting peace. A peace which my friend is searching for, a voice that speaks in the still small quiet voice, telling me things different than the world tells.
Now I come to our verse here, and I want to focus on the word sealed. Now used to I think oh you know we have a seal that is set about us, calling it the Holy Spirit. Then I looked up the word sealed and root word and I was amazed at what I found, and how that it just makes all scripture to gel more and more. The word means to stamp and keep secret. The thing that is most intriguing about this is, my friend just could not understand what it is that makes Christianity so real to me. It is just that, the invisible stamp which he could not understand or comprehend. John 14:17 (ESV)“Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.” Do you see it, the Spirit of truth lives in me and I understand the love, but my friend cannot understand it because he neither see him nor knows him. You see I know the Father and have trusted the Father through the Son, and he has manifest himself to me, and not in a way which the world can receive or understand, but in the form of His invisible Spirit. Joh 14:21 (ESV)“Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
Psa 139:2-12 (ESV)“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.”
Oh Father in heaven where can I go from you presence O Lord? You are every where and in all things, yet you choose to make yourself known to me and to speak to me, loving me with an everlasting love, giving me life before death. Thank you Father for your wonderful graces, and the great and wonderful gift of your Holy Spirit.
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