Ephesian 1:13-14 [In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.]
The Father is the source, the Son is the expression, and the Spirit is the reaching forth.
The Father: as the source, chose and predestinated us in eternity according to His plan.
The Son : as the expression, accomplished redemption in time according to the Father's plan.
The Spirit: as the reaching forth, becomes our seal and pledge to apply what the Son has accomplished of the Father's plan.
Today we have heard the word of the truth, which is the gospel of our salvation, and have believed into Christ and have been sealed in Him by the promised Spirit. This seal will never fade away and will never be lost.
But the sealing of the Spirit, which is the anointing of the Spirit in us, is not something that happens once for all, but is going on continually. The seal was put into us at the time we believed, but the sealing has continued from that time until now. It will continue until the day of the redemption of our bodies.
The Holy Spirit is the seal, and He is also sealing. He continues to do the word of sealing in us.
The sealing of the Holy Spirit is the divine dispensing. The sealing of the Holy Spirit is the saturation. Whenever there is saturation, there is dispensing. We become His possession and He has made us a treasure to God, an inheritance. His Spirit came into us as a seal, to put a mark on us. This mark is organic.
The sealing of the Spirit is not once for all. It is still going on, and the divine ink of this sealing never dries. It remains wet.
First, this divine ink saturates us deeply; we are VERTICALLY saturated. Then, the divine ink spreads within us, and we are HORIZONTALLY permeated. Thus, our whole being will be soaked with the Spirit as the sealing ink, and this sealing ink is the essence.
(Reference: The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ; The Issue of the Dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the Transmitting of the Transcending Christ)
WHAT IS THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODY? (Roman 8:23)
This Spirit is the last Adam who has become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor 15:45). Today, this all-inclusive life-giving Spirit has accomplished redemption and has washed away our sins. Now He is living within us and is continually sealing in us. This sealing dispenses the diving life into us.
First, through regeneration He becomes the life in our spirit. (Romans 8:10)
Then, this life saturates our mind through our spirit, that the soul to whom the mind belongs may be transformed until there is life in the soul. (Romans 8:6)
Finally, this life saturates our body to become the life in our body. (Romans 8:11)
The ultimate result is that our body will be transfigured. This is the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:23)
(Reference: The Economy and Dispensing of God)
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