0090. A Life Sealed by the Spirit

A Life Sealed by the Spirit

"In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,

"Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory" (Eph_1:13-14).

Illustration: The life of the believer is a sealed life. In the lumber districts of Northern Michigan, the logs are cut down during the winter months, then they are sealed or stamped with the distinctive mark of the owner. When the spring comes, they are carried down by the freshets toward the lake. James McConkey, in one of his books, has suggested how certain men, make a livelihood by running over the logs, turning them about and looking for those timbers which have escaped their sealing. Whenever a log bears the mark of an owner it cannot be touched; but, if the log has somehow slipped through, as many do, and it bears no seal or stamp, then any one may claim it and put his own stamp upon it.

Satan can easily move about among the church-members and examine their genuineness. Wherever there is one who has not the mark of regeneration, and of the Spirit’s sealing, Satan may claim that one. There are many who have the mark of baptism, or, who have the mark of having partaken of the Lord’s Supper; or, they have the mark of faithful attendance at church, but they have never been born again. These have never been sealed by the Spirit, and therefore they are not secured. Those who are sealed of God the Spirit, sealed through to Glory, sealed until the day of the redemption of their bodies; those, and only those, are secure.

Blessed sealing of the Spirit,

Fills my soul with joy Divine;

Fills and thrills me with assurance,

I am His and He is mine.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR