The Chosen One's: Sealing
Sermon Series: The Chosen One's: How Shall We Now Live
Sermon Title: The Chosen One's: Sealing
Sermon Text: Ephesians 1:11-14
Sermon Purpose: To call the hearer to be diligent to find confidence of their future redemption in the sealing process of God.
Sermon Proposition: There are 3 principles of the believer's inheritance.
11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:11-14 (NKJV)
I. The centerpoint of our inheritance. v.11
A. Christ is the source of our inheritance. v.11a
B. Christ is the symbol of our inheritance. v.11b
C. Christ is the strength of our inheritance. v.11c (Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 9:29, 32:8; Isaiah 46:10; Ephesians 2:19-21; 1 Corinthians 3:22-23; Romans 8:17)
II. The campaign of our inheritance. v.12-13a
A. The campaign of praise. v.12
B. The campaign of proclamation. v.13a
C. The campaign of promise. v.13b (Matthew 3:17; Romans 10:17; Galatians 1:6-9; John 1:12)
"The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit." - Robert Murray M'Cheyne
"God works immediately by His Spirit in and on the wills of His saints." - John Owens
"The marks of the Spirit's presence...[are] biblical teaching, loving fellowship, living worship, and an ongoing, outgoing evangelism." - John Stott
III. The confirmation of our inheritance. v.14 (1 Peter 1:3-4; Romans 8:23, 9; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Romans 8:16-17
A. Security is the purpose of the believer's sealing.
B. Authenticity is the purpose of the believer's sealing.
C. Ownership is the purpose of the believer's sealing.
D. Authority is the purpose of the believer's sealing.
"The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them, as His proper lasting abode; and to influence their hearts, as a principle of new nature or a divine supernatural spring of life and action." - Jonathan Edwards
"The Holy Spirit is not a blessing from God, He is God." - Colin Urquhart