Sealing of The Holy Spirit, Part 2

In this part of the sermon: Drawing from the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, Martin details the literal nature of ancient seals and their six primary uses: authenticity/authority, ratification of…

Martin quotes two paragraphs from the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary to establish the literal, secular meaning and physical characteristics of ancient seals.

Like so many words in Scripture, the Holy Ghost took a word which was something part and parcel of the common vocabulary of that day, common significance and connotation, and he incorporated it into the language of Holy Scripture to be a vehicle of conveying tremendous and significant spiritual truth. But if we're to understand its significance in the realm of the spiritual, we've got to start with its significance in the realm of the natural. So, in seeking to ascertain what is this blessing, ye were sealed, we'll do two things. Establish the meaning of the word in its secular sphere, and the...

7:31 - 8:52 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Drawing from the Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, Martin details the literal nature of ancient seals and their six primary uses: authenticity/authority, ratification of…

The story of Jezebel sealing a letter with King Ahab's seal (1 Kings 21:8) illustrates the use of a seal as a mark of authenticity and authority.

Some of them were used as a mark of authenticity and authority. If a king gave a royal command, how were you to know as a commoner whether or not somebody was just spoofing, playing an April Fool's joke, well, you would look for the seal of the king upon that royal command. You have an example of this in 1 Kings 21.8 when this wicked woman Jezebel wants to send out a letter to track down the life of Elijah.

10:49 - 11:17 Read in full sermon

Driving home: But any exegesis and exposition of scripture that doesn't start here when the Holy Ghost has used a word from the common parlance of the day is bound either to be inaccurate or if it's accurate, it leaves you hanging as …

The sealing of Christ's tomb illustrates the use of a seal to close a door and keep out unauthorized people, signifying civil authority.

Genesis 41.42. Fifthly, it was used as a means of sealing closed door to keep out unauthorized people. You remember after our Lord was buried in the tomb, the order was given to put a stone at that tomb and to do what?

12:53 - 13:09 Read in full sermon

Driving home: So then all the people of God are a sealed people. They've been stamped with a divine seal as an authenticating, identifying, protecting seal.

The suggestion for homemakers to engrave their name and address on valuables to deter thieves illustrates how a seal marks something as one's own property and protects it.

They tell us one of the best ways to preserve your valuables against thievery is to buy a little engraving drill and anything like a typewriter, anything of any worth. Just engrave your own name and address on it. And then when somebody steals it and tries to take it to a pawn shop or hock it off his hot goods, he has real problems. Well, if your seal is in it, it identifies that object as yours.

18:03 - 18:31 Read in full sermon

The point: Appreciate that you are sealed by God, marked as His own, authenticated as genuine, and protected for His purposes.

A mother seeing her great-grandmother's signet on an heirloom earthen vessel helps believers understand the personal and identifying nature of God's seal of ownership.

to their great Triune God that not only were they blessed with the blessing of a purposed salvation in election and predestination a purchased salvation in the redemption of Christ but a salvation applied with power in such a way that every time they'd go home and mother would be cooking and she'd see one of her earthen vessels and she'd see the signet of perhaps her great grandmother this was some kind of an heirloom and she saw that sealed vessel she could think I've been sealed God's put his stamp of ownership upon me I belong to him think of the implications I belong to him I'm marked as o...

38:42 - 40:12 Read in full sermon

The point: Appreciate that you are sealed by God, marked as His own, authenticated as genuine, and protected for His purposes.

A man working with a tool upon which his own seal has been placed helps believers understand the personal and identifying nature of God's seal of ownership.

to their great Triune God that not only were they blessed with the blessing of a purposed salvation in election and predestination a purchased salvation in the redemption of Christ but a salvation applied with power in such a way that every time they'd go home and mother would be cooking and she'd see one of her earthen vessels and she'd see the signet of perhaps her great grandmother this was some kind of an heirloom and she saw that sealed vessel she could think I've been sealed God's put his stamp of ownership upon me I belong to him think of the implications I belong to him I'm marked as o...

38:42 - 40:12 Read in full sermon

The point: Appreciate that you are sealed by God, marked as His own, authenticated as genuine, and protected for His purposes.

Seeing an official document sealed by a king, which no one would dare tamper with, helps believers grasp the securing and preserving aspect of God's seal unto the day of redemption.

to their great Triune God that not only were they blessed with the blessing of a purposed salvation in election and predestination a purchased salvation in the redemption of Christ but a salvation applied with power in such a way that every time they'd go home and mother would be cooking and she'd see one of her earthen vessels and she'd see the signet of perhaps her great grandmother this was some kind of an heirloom and she saw that sealed vessel she could think I've been sealed God's put his stamp of ownership upon me I belong to him think of the implications I belong to him I'm marked as o...

38:42 - 40:12 Read in full sermon