Ephesians 4:30b
30 And [kai] grieve [lupeo] not [me] the holy [hagios] Spirit [pneuma] of God, [theos] whereby [en] [hos] ye are sealed [sphragizo]
unto [eis] the day [hemera] of redemption. [apolutrosis]KJV-Interlinear
30 And
do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption. NASB
The Holy Spirit is not
only the agent or power by which our spiritual life functions, but the Holy
Spirit is the seal also of our spiritual lives.
This is not to say that
the Holy Spirit made a seal, or did the sealing, but is actually himself, the
seal.
When legal correspondence
or documents are affixed with some sort of seal, as in a wax with a ring
imprint, then that document becomes a part of a permanent and legal record. It
cannot be changed, or altered, or removed from the permanent record.
And in this regard, God
used Himself, the Holy Spirit, to actually seal our eternal life in us, and
that cannot be removed, altered, or changed in any way.
Unto the day of
redemption, means the complete recovery of our body, from corruption to
incorruption. That is the day when we receive our resurrection bodies, and will
have those bodies forever.
Unbelievers do not have a
day of redemption. They have a day of
judgment. Only believers have a day
coming when they will receive their resurrection bodies and live with the Lord
forever.
Redemption is a concept
that originated long ago when property came under a lien or some sort of
financial burden, wherein it required money to buy back or to pay off the debt
and thus redeem the property back to a debt or burden free state.
In the spiritual life,
that concept carried through with the purchase price that Christ paid on the
Cross, thus releasing sinners from the burden or debt imposed by sin and the
spiritual death that accompanied it.
There are three concepts
regarding redemption. There is the day
of the actual payment, which occurred at the Cross. There is the actual day of the guarantee, which
it the moment that you believe in Christ and thus are sealed with the Holy
Spirit, which in turn guarantees that redemption is yours. And, there is the day of the actual
redemption, when you receive your resurrection body at which time you possess
the permanent eternal essence that God has paid for.
To have the Holy Spirit
seal you up until the day of redemption, means that you are sealed until that
actual day arrives in your life.
Believing in Christ saves, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit seals
that promise, but the redemption process is not complete until you are
resurrected.
The mere fact that God
seals you, with a permanent seal, gives you the absolute guarantee of eternal
security.
What God seals no one and
nothing, can unseal. That includes
you. There is nothing you can say,
think, or do to undo your redemption or saved status. You can never lose your salvation, otherwise
that would imply that God cannot seal with a perfect seal, and that idea is of
course ludicrous.
Only arrogance believes
that the person is somehow more capable than God, or that God somehow has
overlooked something that you yourself have discovered with your superior
ability. And only fools maintain this
view.
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