Sealing of The Holy Spirit, Part 1

Driving home: no fallen son of Adam can have any greater blessing conferred upon him than to be the object of the sovereign, gracious, saving activity of the triune God.

Comparing the gift of the entire universe to a fallen son of Adam with the gift of sovereign, gracious, saving activity of the triune God. It illustrates that God's saving work is infinitely more valuable than any material possession.

If anyone has begun to take seriously the message of the scriptures, I'm sure he will agree with the statement that no fallen son of Adam can have any greater blessing conferred upon him than to be the object of the sovereign, gracious, saving activity of the triune God. Were God to deed over to such a son of Adam, title to the entire universe, it would be like the giving of a penny to a king compared with the great gift of that sovereign, saving activity of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. And it was the contemplation of this greatest of all blessings, sovereign mercy, which caused the A...

0:24 - 1:47 Read in full sermon

Driving home: our conception of salvation is biblical only if it is decidedly and self-consciously Trinitarian

A child with a large bandage on their nose is used to explain 'self-consciously Trinitarian.' It illustrates that while one always has a nose (the Spirit's work is always present), being self-conscious means actively and continually being aware of it, rather than just giving lip service.

but that's about the extent of their thinking with reference to this matter now by self-conscious I mean what one of these kids would experience if he had to come into church this morning with a big six inch bandage on the end of his nose you see every time you come to church you come with your nose but you're not self-conscious about your nose you're not self-conscious you don't come into church wondering who's looking at my nose and trying to hide your nose your nose is there and if I asked you do you have a nose you'd say yes do you believe your nose is visible to others oh yes but you see ...

9:27 - 10:54 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The main thought of these two verses is found in the verb ye were sealed everything else in verses 13 and 14 either modifies amplifies explains or expands this statement ye were sealed

Martin's experience digging trenches and plumbing foundations in construction work. It illustrates the critical importance of correctly understanding the foundational phrase 'ye were sealed,' because if the foundation is off, everything built upon it will also be off.

pivots upon that statement if we're wrong there then everything we build on it's off when I did construction work I did the dirty work digging out the holes in the trenches for foundations and the rest and there are times when it seemed almost ridiculous the care with which we had to plumb up that foundation and after laying two or three courses of block we'd get the transit and set it up at one thing and I'd hold the stick on there with the measurements on it and if we were just a quarter of an inch off then we'd remember that and put a little more mortar in the block for the next two or thre...

26:57 - 28:26 Read in full sermon