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THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 117. THE SECRET OF SANCTIFICATION. ROM 8:14-29; 1JO 3:1-2; PHI 3:20-21; JOH 6:66-69

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The secret of the mystery, part 117. The secret of sanctification.

Thursday, June 1, 2006


2TI 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

LUK 8:14 “And the {seed} which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of {this} life, and bring no fruit to maturity.”

Paul is emphasizing that the ultimate end and objective of our adoption is our glorification.

The final result is that we shall become like TLJC, perfect and in glorified bodies.

He is already glorified and we shall be glorified, and our glorification happens for the same reason everything else that is great happens to us, because of our union with Him.

Glorification = man is not only delivered from all the effects of the fall but granted a far “superior position and blessing” than he would have had if he had remained without sin.

Even nature wants to get back on the ball just as mankind.

“For the revealing of the sons of God” = the Second Coming of Christ.

The curse on nature will be removed at the Second Coming and nature will become perfect once again.

Creation is suffering not because of anything that creation has done but because of what man has done.

He was cursing nature because of the sin of man, but it will only be “nature’s condition” until God delivers man; then nature’s deliverance comes also.

Paul is excited about the analogy between the undeserved suffering of nature and the undeserved suffering of the mature believer as an adopted son.

Nature had absolutely no say in the situation in the Garden, and we have absolutely no say when we suffer for righteousness’ sake.

a. The redemption of your soul, when you believed.
b. The redemption of the human body.

The groaning therefore in this verse is not the groaning of pain but the groaning of anticipation.

The body we live in now is the body of humiliation or this body of humility, but someday our body will be like His, 1JO 3:1-2.

MAT 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right, “Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

REV 7:15 “For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them.”

Sanctification = to be set apart or consecrated to God; belonging to God in an intimate way.

Believers become sanctified at the moment of salvation, known as positional sanctification.

Believers become sanctified after salvation when doctrine is resident in their soul and they are filled with the Spirit, known as experiential sanctification.

Believers will become sanctified when the resurrection of their bodies takes place, known as ultimate sanctification, PHI 3:21.

PHI 3:20 For our citizenship [politeuma, or heavenly privilege] exists in heaven, from which place we eagerly anticipate the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

PHI 3:21 who will transform the body of our humble station into conformity with the body of His glory, from which operational power that He and only He keeps on being able even to bring under authority all things to Himself.

When applied to the Church, sanctification = God has created a brand new species of spiritual royalty set apart for the maximum glorification of TLJC.

a. Positional sanctification
b. Experiential sanctification
c. Ultimate sanctification

Sanctification is a technical theological term for the status quo of the Royal Family of God in three phases of the PPOG.

Sanctification means to be under a grace contract with God forever; we call this the New Covenant.

Sanctification means to be set apart as sacred, to be consecrated, to be devoted to worship.

Etymology = the history of the word and its biblical usage.

The most popular word used in the Bible concerning sanctification - hagios = holy or saint.

This word means that you have been set apart by God for a special purpose.

A saint is someone who has been consecrated to God forever and all Church-age believers are called saints.

Hagios is translated “holy” and “saint” and is merely the biblical title for royalty.

Unfortunately, it is translated into English by an obscure word with an erroneous connotation: “Saint.”
This connotes some sort of self-righteous, strained, painful, sacrificial life.

The Holy One from God = “Ho hagios tou Theou.”
This anticipated Christ’s royalty.

1CO 1:2,30 - even the worst of believers (those in the Corinthian church) are saints and sanctified in Christ Jesus.

They were fighting over which one of them was better than the others, 1CO 1:12.

They were carnal and fleshly and filled with jealousy and strife, 1CO 3:3.

They were very judgmental and critical of the apostle Paul as their pastor-teacher, 1CO 4:5.
There were those who were filled with arrogance, 1CO 4:18.

There was the ever popular situation of the young man having sex with his step-mother, 1CO 5:1.

They were also taking each other to court on spiritual or church matters and suing each other, 1CO 6:1.

There were some going to the ancient whore houses or prostitution temples and having sex with the hookers,1CO 6:16.

There were the legalists in the congregation who were married but considered sex to be a dirty thing, 1CO 7:5.

There were those who said now that they are born again but their mate is not, that it is time to get a divorce and marry someone in the local assembly, 1CO 7:11-20.

There were those who accused the apostle Paul of being in the ministry for money, 1CO 9:1-9.
There were bossy horsy females out of control and taking upon themselves authority they were not given, 1CO 11:3-10.

The men were becoming weak and wimpy with long hair, which at the time was a sign of rebellion and rejection of authority, 1CO 11:14.
There were those who came to the communion service intoxicated, 1CO 11:21.

Many members of their congregation were sick mentally, emotionally, physically, and some had even died the sin unto death, 1CO 11:30.
They were fighting with each other and there was division in the local assembly, 1Co 12.

They knew nothing about virtue love, 1Co 13.
They were carried away with the gift of tongues and thought that speaking in tongues made you superior to others, 1Co 14.

The women were out of control during the worship service so the apostle Paul said “the women should keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak and if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home,” 1CO 14:34-35.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 118. THE SECRET OF SANCTIFICATION. PART 2. PHI 3:20-21; 1CO 1:2,30; 2CO 1:12; ROM 6:5-18

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Friday, June 2, 2006


Sanctification = to be set apart or consecrated to God; belonging to God in an intimate way.

The most popular word used in the Bible concerning sanctification - hagios = holy or saint.

1. Believers become sanctified at the moment of salvation, known as positional sanctification.

2. Believers become sanctified after salvation when doctrine is resident in their soul and they are filled with the Spirit, known as experiential sanctification.

3. Believers will become sanctified when the resurrection of their bodies takes place, known as ultimate sanctification, PHI 3:21.

1CO 1:2,30 - even the worst of believers (those in the Corinthian church) are saints and sanctified in Christ Jesus.

They were fighting over which one of them was better than the others, 1CO 1:12.
They were filled with jealousy and strife, 1CO 3:3.
They were very judgmental and critical of their P-T, 1CO 4:5.
There were filled with arrogance, 1CO 4:18.

There was sexual immorality, 1CO 5:1.
They were taking each other to court on spiritual/church matters, 1CO 6:1.
There were some going to the ancient whorehouses or prostitution temples, 1CO 6:16.
There were legalists in the congregation, 1CO 7:5.

There were those who said now that they are born again but their mate is not, that it is time to get a divorce and marry someone in the local assembly,
1CO 7:11-20.

They accused Paul of being in the ministry for money, 1CO 9:1-9.
There were bossy horsy females out of control, 1CO 11:3-10.
The men were becoming weak, 1CO 11:14.

There were those who came to the communion service intoxicated, 1CO 11:21.
They were fighting with each other and there was division in the local assembly, 1Co 12.
They knew nothing about virtue love in 1Co 13.
They were carried away with the gift of tongues and thought that speaking in tongues made you superior to others, 1Co 14.

When you believed on Christ you were made royalty, and in spite of how bad you are or how much you have failed, you are royalty forever.

Hagiotes - “holiness” = describes the principle by which all believers are related to the integrity of God and the aristocracy of God.

It is used in 2CO 1:12 for the believer conducting himself as a saint in the world in which he lives.

Hagiosune - used only by the apostle Paul, who apparently coined it.
It means holiness, or set apart, or sanctification.

This word denotes a manifestation of the quality of life that God has placed within us as members of the Royal Family, 2CO 7:1; 1TH 3:13.

1TH 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness [hagiosune] before our God and Father.

Hagiasmos = sanctification or sanctifying; holiness or consecration. It refers to the state of being made an aristocrat forever.
It especially emphasizes our relationship to the integrity of God.

It is used for the believer presenting his body unto the Lord as a member of the Royal Family, ROM 6:19-22.

He has taken you and me, totally depraved individuals, and given us eternal life, 1JO 5:11-12; perfect righteousness, 2CO 5:21; made us His children, 2TI 2:1; sanctified us, 1CO 1:2; made us priests, HEB 10:10-14; and Royalty (Kingship), 2PE 1:11.

The foundation of all resurrection life is death.

EPH 2:5-6 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,

Through our faith in this fact, our position in Christ, the Holy Spirit makes this truth real in our condition resulting in our spiritual growth.

2CO 5:7 Walk by faith, not by sight.
"Take care how we listen; and take care what we listen to.”

ECC 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, verily, do it with all your might;
EPH 6:15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
PSA 144:1 He trains my fingers for battle;

EPH 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear.
EPH 3:14 For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father,

JOH 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
1JO 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

ROM 16:18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people.
(NIV)
ROM 16:18 For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people. (TEV)

MAR 9:40 “For he who is not against us is for us.”
1SA 24:6 He said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.”

1SA 24:10 “I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.”
1SA 26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be without guilt?”
PSA 105:15 “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”

Because we are free in Christ and because we have been given an understanding of adoption and sanctification, we can present ourselves to God.

Kainoteti zeos = in the new state of life in which the Holy Spirit places us so as to produce a new state, living in eternal life now in time.

Hagiazo = to be holy, sanctified, or “set apart.”
Hagiazo = we are set apart in a special way in history.

JOH 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.”

EPH 5:25-26 Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

The Head of the Royal Family of God or the Prince Ruler, “Ho hagios tou Theou” - the Holy One from God or the Saint from God = a title for TLJC, JOH 6:69.


THE LORD'S SUPPER SPECIAL

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The Lord's Supper. Special.

Sunday, June 4, 2006


1. We are to “come” or “gather” together. HEB 10:25 - we are not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
2. We come together “as” a church not “in” the church.

One thing that should characterize the Lord’s table is unity among believers.

Paul is actually saying that it is impossible to eat the Lord’s supper when there are divisions among you.

1. The antinomian
2. The legalistic

The antinomian is one who holds the opinion that under the dispensation of grace morality is no longer needed.

The legalistic believer is the one that thinks that to please God you must be good and moral and sweet, and as TLJC said, “How great is their darkness because they think that they have the light.”

Eucharisteo [eucharist] = giving thanks for grace.

“This is My body” - pres-act-ind - eimi (verb of absolute status quo) = “this keeps on being My body.”

He is telling them that He is going to die physically but He will rise from the dead - “this keeps on being my body.”

“Keep on doing this” - pres-act-imp - poieo = to keep on doing this or performing this or executing this.

Present tense - linear aktionsart = it speaks of certain points of time when the Lord’s supper is to be celebrated - as well as reminding us that it is to be habitual.

The present tense here does not mean that we are to habitually celebrate the Lord’s supper, but that we are to habitually have certain points of time that are set aside to bring to remembrance the death of TLJC for us.

Active voice = you do this; you must choose to partake of both communion elements.
Imperative mood = you are ordered to do it!

It is a sin not to celebrate the Lord’s supper.

“In” = “eis” - it introduces a purpose clause.

The purpose of the bread is to bring to your memory the uniqueness of the person of Christ.

God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are not like Him because God is not man.

Man is not like Him because He is God; He is the unique One of the universe.

The celebration of the Lord’s supper is designed not for you to think about how awful and terrible you are as a believer, but it is designed for you to focus your attention on the unique one of the universe, TLJC.

The bread refers to the person of Christ.
The cup refers to the work of Christ.

The person of Christ had to remain impeccable first, in order for the work of Christ to propitiate or satisfy God the Father.

The cup represents the fact that all of our sins were placed in the cup and then poured out on TLJC, and He drank them, as it were.

Then God the Father judged Him for every single sin which would ever be committed in the human race.

Even the unbelievers will not be judged for their sins, because under the doctrine of the unlimited atonement TLJC paid for them as well, REV 20:12-13.

1PE 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins "in" His body on the cross,

The cup is used to indicate that when certain people were crucified in the ancient world, the Romans, at times, were very kind to them, and they cut down their pain by offering them cheap G.I. wine.

The King James calls it vinegar, but the original language tells us that it was cheap wine.

TLJC refused it because the only thing that He was drinking that day was the sins of the world.

This is the gospel or the good news: sins have been judged once; they will never be judged again!

Covenant - diatheke = used to denote the close relationship which God enters into with man.

This is called the “new” covenant or the kainos covenant, meaning a brand new covenant that never existed before.

“In My blood” = the saving work of TLJC.

The Theological dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhardt Kittel, vol I, p.175 -
“The idea which the New Testament links with the blood of Christ is simply a pregnant verbal symbol of the saving work of Christ.”

a. Redemption is taught in EPH 1:7; COL 1:14; HEB 9:12; 1PE 1:18-19.
b. Reconciliation is related to the blood of Christ, EPH 2:13; COL 1:20.
c. Propitiation and expiation are related to the blood of Christ, ROM 3:25, where Jesus Christ is said to be our mercy seat.
d. Justification is related to the blood of Christ, ROM 5:8.

The cup represents the spiritual death of TLJC when He was bearing our sins.

Stuffy self-righteousness loves to make an issue out of people’s sins!

“To be” translated “is” - pres-act-ind - eimi = it keeps on being.
“Keep on doing this” - pres-act-imp

Eating and drinking are used to illustrate the non-meritorious system of perception, faith!

The communion table is designed so that our thinking will orient to grace!

The communion table is a time to remind ourselves that Christ did all the work and we did not earn or deserve a thing!

The purpose of communion is to announce and proclaim His death
We are to do this “until He comes” which is an aorist tense and points to the point of time called the Rapture of the Church.
The Lord’s table or the Eucharist is for the Church, the body of Christ, only!

What does it mean to eat and drink in an unworthy manner?
It means to be out of fellowship or not being filled with the Spirit during the communion celebration.
1. Are you a believer in TLJC?
2. As a believer, are you filled with the Spirit or out of fellowship?

1. The Holy Spirit teaches the believer and gives significance to the Lord’s table.
2. The carnal believer is not oriented to grace when he is out of fellowship, and therefore he rejects the grace principle in recovery.
3. The carnal believer is incapable of worship during the communion service because they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Vs 28 - we have a procedure which should always precede the Lord’s table.

Examine - pres-act-imp - dokimazo = to test for the purpose of finding approval.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 120. THE SECRET OF SANCTIFICATION – PART 4

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The secret of the mystery, part 120. The secret of sanctification - part 4.

Friday, June 9, 2006


Experiential sanctification takes place only when the believer lives and functions in God’s pre-designed plan for his life. Experiential sanctification is the function of the spiritual life after salvation.

The function of the spiritual life depends on the three spiritual skills: the filling of the Holy Spirit, the metabolization of doctrine, and the utilization of the ten problem-solving devices.

Living in the divine plan that God has designed for your life is the only way that experiential sanctification is accomplished.

JOH 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.”

Experiential sanctification has to do with the believer in time.

After salvation and doctrinal intake, the believer’s objective is to reach spiritual maturity.

Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, 1CO 3:16; 1CO 6:19-20.

The filling of the Spirit = God the Holy Spirit controls your soul.
Grieving and quenching the Spirit = God the Holy Spirit does not control the soul.

The normal function of the royal priesthood and the normal function of the Christian way of life is experiential sanctification.

Between salvation and eternity the believer spends a certain amount of time on earth.
The time is determined by the sovereignty of God, PSA 31:15.

The purpose of this time spent on earth is to reach spiritual maturity or experiential sanctification and glorify God, REV 4:11.

When God can bless the believer in the devil’s world on the basis of residual doctrine, God is glorified.
God is glorified as the provider; we are blessed as the beneficiaries.

Either doctrine is going to influence you or the evil of the cosmic system.
Doctrinal intake, inhale and exhale is the determining factor.

PSA 23:3 “He restores my soul”

To be influenced by doctrine means blessing; to be influenced by evil means cursing, discipline, and eventually the sin unto death.

1CO 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Maranatha.
Love - pres-act-ind - PHILEO = personal love for TLJC.

Only mature believers with S.S.E. and maximum doctrine in their souls are able to take residence in experiential sanctification called the state of godliness.

2TH 2:13 Brethren, we should always give thanks to God for you, loved by the Lord; for from the beginning God has elected you with reference to salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the Truth.

Because we are in union with Christ we now are able to be sustained, nourished, and empowered by the ministry of the Spirit.

GAL 5:16 “But I say walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.”
1JO 2:6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

The same power that TLJC operated under is the same power that has been made available to every Church-age believer.

2CO 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

EPH 4:23 and that you be renewed in the breathing of your mind,
ROM 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Experiential sanctification is a potential for the believer, commanded but not guaranteed.

God will provide the resources, opportunities, instructions, encouragement, and even divine discipline, but the believer must choose to execute God’s divine plan for himself.

Believers will become sanctified when the resurrection of their bodies takes place, known as ultimate sanctification, PHI 3:21.

Until the Rapture of the church occurs, all Church-age believers who die go to heaven in an interim body where there is equally great happiness and blessing to all believers, whether they are winners or losers.

At the Rapture, all Church-age believers receive their resurrection bodies, both winners and losers, both those already in heaven (“the dead in Christ shall rise first”), and those alive on the earth (“and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, and so shall we ever be with the Lord”).

Ultimate sanctification is the state of being blameless before God, possessing a resurrection body.
1CO 1:8 who shall also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1TH 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
EPH 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.

EPH 5:27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she should be holy and blameless.
COL 1:22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
JUD 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,

Following the Rapture of the church, at the Judgment seat of Christ, winners receive the conveyance of their escrow blessings for the eternal state and be presented to God the Father in the Royal court of heaven.

Ultimate sanctification converts the body of Christ into the bride of Christ.
In ultimate sanctification, the church is resurrected aristocracy, and therefore, different from all other resurrections.
The Royal Family of God also shares in the coronation and triumph of Jesus Christ at the Second Advent.


THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 119. THE SECRET OF SANCTIFICATION. PART 3

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The secret of the mystery, part 119. The secret of sanctification - part 3.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006


Phase one, positional sanctification, refers to salvation at which point the baptism of the Spirit enters every believer into union with the person of Jesus Christ.

Positional sanctification is a reference to the Church-age believer’s union with Christ which is accomplished at the moment of salvation through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

“In Christ” each Church-age believer is positionally superior to all angels, including Satan as well as all the elect and fallen angels.

This part of mystery doctrine pointing to the elevation of the Church over both the elect and fallen angels announced the total defeat of Satan, which is why Christ’s unexpected announcement of the Church just prior to the cross had such a powerful impact on angels.

1) The believer possesses the righteousness of God the Father imputed, and we share the perfect righteousness of Christ through our positional sanctification.

1JO 3:9 No one who is born of God sins, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

2) The believer possesses eternal life, 1JO 5:11-12.

1CO 1:2,30 - even the worst of believers (those in the Corinthian church) are sanctified in Christ Jesus.

1) It is not an experience; it is neither emotional nor ecstatics.
2) It is not progressive; it cannot be improved in time or in eternity.
3) It is not related to human merit.

4) It is obtained en toto at the moment of salvation through the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
5) It is understood only through cognition of the pertinent doctrine.
6) It is eternal in nature; it cannot be changed by God, angels, or mankind.

Positional sanctification is divided into two parts theologically: retroactive positional truth and current positional truth.

1) Identification with Christ in His spiritual death is rejection of good and evil, tantamount to separation from the first husband, the old sin nature.
2) Identification with Christ in His physical death is separation from good and evil, tantamount to separation from our first husband, the old sin nature.
3) Identification with Christ in His burial is tantamount to actual divorce, where there is death between the two involved.

In current positional truth, the believer is identified with Christ in His resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of God the Father, tantamount to our second marriage which demands “walking in newness of life.”

Who are the sanctified ones? The backsliders, the carnal believers, the new believers, and the mature believers.

Experiential sanctification takes place only when the believer lives and functions in God’s pre-designed plan for his life.

The function of the spiritual life depends on the three spiritual skills: the filling of the Holy Spirit, the metabolization of doctrine, and the utilization of the ten problem-solving devices.

Living in the divine plan that God has designed for your life is the only way that experiential sanctification is accomplished.

JOH 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Thy word is truth.”

Experiential sanctification has to do with the believer in time.
This is also called godliness (eusebia = the spiritual life).

THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERY, PART 121. THE SECRET OF THE SEALING MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 2CO 1:21-22; EPH 1:13; JOH 6:27-29; 17:4; 19:30

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The Secret of the mystery. Part 121. The secret of the sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006


The sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit or the signature guarantee from God the Father.

“The Spirit is in our heart as a pledge” = you cannot understand this, unless the filling of the Spirit controls the heart and is given by God as a pledge or down payment of better things to come.

You cannot understand that the ministry of the Spirit is given the way that it is, unless you have the appropriate doctrine in your soul.

A. The sealing of the Holy Spirit is a guarantee of the validity of common and efficacious grace.
B. It is a guarantee of eternal salvation.

C. It is a guarantee of eternal security.
D. It is the guarantee of your very own portfolio of invisible assets, which includes your escrow blessings for time and eternity.

“Sealed” - noun sphragizo = “set a seal” upon something or to mark with a seal.

1. It was used in the ancient world for business transactions or business contracts.

The work for salvation is totally finished, JOH 17:4; 19:30.

MAL 3:6 “For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”

1SA 15:29 “And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind.”

2. Sphragizo or the seal was also used for a sign of ownership upon horses and chariots.

1CO 6:19-20 Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

3. Sphragizo was also used for a signature for cashing checks.
4. Sealing was also used to protect something that was valuable like a treasury or library.

The Old Testament saints were called the “apple of His eye,” ZEC 2:8.
MAL 3:17 “We [born-again Jews] are His jewels.”
ISA 62:3 “We [true Israel] are His crown of glory.”

As believers in the Church-age, we are His children, His sons, His heirs, royal priests, ambassadors etc.

5. Sphragizo was used to seal fruit as a sign of approval.

He has presented us “a glorious church,” EPH 5:27, not having spot or wrinkle.

Since sealing was used in the ratification of treaties, it becomes analogous to the doctrine of reconciliation, in which man is reconciled to God through the death of His Son.

EPH 4:30 “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

“Sealed for the day of redemption” EPH 4:30 = every believer, through the signature guarantee of the Holy Spirit at salvation, is guaranteed eternal security, whether he is a winner or loser in the PPOG.

The soul is redeemed in salvation, but the body is redeemed in resurrection.

Two guarantees of our portfolio of invisible assets:
The sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit at salvation and the indwelling of Christ as the Shekinah glory.

A. The baptism of the Spirit and its results and implications.
B. The unique Pre-designed Plan of God taking its precedence from the dispensation of the Hypostatic union.

As members of the Royal Family of God, there is an exact precise and accurate plan for those members of the Royal Family of God to follow.

The Church-age believer belongs to a spiritual dynasty founded by TLJC in which his standard of living follows the pattern that the Lord clearly established when He was on earth.

1JO 2:6 “The one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.”
We receive our directions and guidance not from the Old Testament but from the dispensation of the Hypostatic union.

The exactness of God’s code for the Royal Family expresses His own perfection.

“Only a right thing done in a right way is right.”
Giving is a right thing, but it must be done in the right way.
Praying is a right thing, but it must be done in the right way.
Serving is a right thing, but it must be done in the right way.

The right thing is the Pre-designed Plan of God.
The right way is operating under the power of God the Holy Spirit.

Because the Christian retains his O.S.N. throughout his life on earth, his “contribution” to the plan of God would only corrupt that plan.

COL 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord [by grace, through faith, not of works least any man should boast] so walk in Him,
ROM 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

When it says by grace you have been saved through faith, the grace, the salvation, and the faith are all gifts from God.

ROM 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.

Because the believer retains his O.S.N. throughout his life on earth, his “contribution” to the plan of God would only corrupt that plan.

Human ability, human dynamics, human personality, human intelligence, human talent or human works cannot enter into God’s perfect plan.

If the plan of God depended on man’s merit for a single moment, the plan would immediately become imperfect.

God allows no weak links in the chain.
He personally guards the integrity of His plan. Man enters God’s perfect plan exclusively on the merits of Christ and the principle of grace remains in force after salvation as well.


SECRET OF THE MYSTERY
JULY 2006