Holiness, Godliness, Usefulness
12/28/2013, by John Kincaid
Lesson 99: Sealed With the Spirit
1 Cor.2:8-10 None of the rulers of this age understood this; if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him. these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
The world doesn’t know Him. But we do.
John 14:15-17 If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Only the Holy Spirit enables us to wait for the Lord & expect Him to help us. God enables us to stand firm.
2 Cor.1:21-22 it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Eph.1:13-14 In [Christ] you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
About This Series
The goal of this series is to become more useful in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, as an instrument in the Redeemer's hand. The theme verses for the series are Ephesians 4:22-24, Philemon 11, 2 Timothy 2:21
- to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
- and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.
- Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
