37.The Sealing Ministry of the Holy Spirit.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.
The signature guarantee, or sealing, of the Holy Spirit has at least four meanings:
1. It is the Holy Spirit’s guarantee of Efficacious Grace.
2. It is His guarantee of eternal salvation.
3. It is His guarantee of Eternal Security for the believer. At the moment of faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit seals that decision and guarantees that nothing could ever reverse it.)
4. It is His guarantee of our portfolio of invisible assets.
38. Deliverance from the Power and Influence of the Old Sin Nature.
At the moment of faith in Christ, we are delivered from the power of the Old Sin Nature (
ROM 2:29;
PHI 3:3;
COL 2:11;
EPH 4:22). The Old Sin Nature no longer has to control us; we can instead be influenced by God the Holy Spirit through the Filling of the Spirit. When we sin, we are controlled by the Old Sin Nature. The rebound technique is the means by which we can escape the control of the Old Sin Nature (
1JO 1:9). The Word of God teaches that the entire human race is enslaved to sin (
ROM 7:14). Everyone who commits sin is the slave to sin and resides in the slave market of sin (
JOH 8:34). Only the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the Son of God, can set us free from our slavery to sin (
JOH 8:36). We are either a slave to Christ or a slave to the cosmic system of Satan.
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