0091. A Life Possessing God's Earnest

A Life Possessing God’s Earnest

"Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased (God’s own) possession, unto the praise of His glory" (Eph_1:14).

The sealing mentioned on preceding subject, is God’s earnest of our inheritance. When one purchases a possession from another, he frequently passes over to the grantor, a few dollars, to seal the trade. This is earnest money. When God saves us, He gives us, in the Holy Spirit’s sealing, an earnest of our future redemption. Of course, God has not yet completed His work. We are used to saying that we are already saved; and, so we are, so far as sin’s penalty is concerned; so far as the possession of a new life is concerned; but, we have not yet received our new inheritance; we have not yet received our resurrection body; we have not yet entered into the praise of His glory. We are, however, just as sure of getting all of these things, as if we already possessed them. We have God’s earnest, and He will never fail. He has spoken and no one can disannul it. He has stretched forth His hand and none can draw it back.

Certainly He who hath begun a good work in us will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Christ has given us the earnest,

By the Spirit’s life within;

That He will to Heaven bring us,

Raised and raptured, saved from sin.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR