Signed, Sealed, and Delivered Saints

22 Sunday Jul 2018

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. ~ Ephesians 1:13-14, MSG

The Holy Spirit is the One who seals believers in Christ. Father God allows the Holy Spirit to seal Christ’s followers so that they can feel safe and secure in God’s Love, Power, and Promises. Furthermore, it is the sealing of the Holy Spirit that accomplishes Father God’s signed, sealed, and delivered spiritual Objectives, which are as follows:

1. He seals with (stamps God’s Approval on us; validates us via) God’s Insignia so that we not only can receive the Holy Spirit inside us and on us but also can receive our eternal sonship, our eternal life, and our other promised eternal gifts.

2. He seals up (preserves, locks in) our faith that God has given to us so that unbelief, nonbelief, and apostasy) will be sealed out.

3. He seals to (protect, secure, and save) us by marking us with God’s Seal—a visible impression to the forces of darkness—so that demonic/evil forces will know they can’t enter us. In other words, God’s Seal will let Satan and his imps know that we Father God’s Children.

Shalom . . .

Every blessing . . . . .

A Two-Word Sermon: But God!

06 Friday Jul 2018

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 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, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ~ Ephesians 2:4-7, NASB

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ~ Romans 5:8, NASB

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. ~ Genesis 50:20, NASB

But God . . . these two little words are more than enough Daily Bread (God’s Manna) to sustain me for the rest of my life. They also make me stop and reflect on my life whenever I come across them in the Word of God. They encourage me. They lift me up. They never fail to remind me of how often God holy and righteously intervened in my life and saved me from my own self—or from other people who only meant to harm me. They also remind me that with God ALL things are possible.

But God . . . what an awesome set of words! More important, these two words always point to the Good News that follows them! But God . . . the two-word sermon!