The Spirit, the sealing

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 9:14).

God tempts no one. But He will test everyone, especially those who profess Him. He tests them by leaving them like He left His own Son in Gethsemane, and lets their sealing keep them from falling. Thus the 144,000 will be without fault before the throne of God.

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.” (Eph. 1:13).

Through the “Spirit of promise” (Eph. 1:13), the “eternal Spirit” (Heb. 9:14), we can be kept from falling to temptation. We get the victory through entering into the eternal Spirit of the Father and Son’s infinite, inseparable, indissoluble, indivisible bond. That Spirit that seals eternally is the permanent seal from God. The permanent seal of an infinite bond, and the eternal Spirit, are synonymous.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” (John 6:47).

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24).

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (1Jn. 3:15).

The above verses tell us that eternal life starts the moment we trust in Jesus. And Ephesians 1:13 says that we are sealed with the Spirit because we trust in Jesus. Then, when we read John 3:16, shouldn’t we have in mind that same concept of the Son’s holy Spirit sealed in us—His life and His righteousness, His rest, and holiness and peace—unending, unquenchable, solid, impregnable, permanent, abundant, ongoing?

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:14-16).

There is also the eternal hell misconception.

“Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matt. 25:41).

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mark 9:48).

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 7).

The eternal fire upon Sodom is not still burning. The vale of Siddim isn’t still going up in smoke. “And he [Abraham] looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” (Gen. 19:28). The cities burned until there was nothing left to burn. Their fire was unquenchable—“eternal”, “everlasting” (Jude 6). The only thing left of the plain was burning salt under the burning sun.

We can redefine the concept of eternal when “unending” doesn’t fit the context, such as with Sodom and Gomorrah, and with an eternally burning hell. So why can’t we do that for other biblical concepts, such as “the eternal Spirit”? And why is it so difficult to see that the Spirit is the union, the bond, the Father and Son’s presence and the glory that comes with Their presence (see John 17:5; 14:23), the reconciliation between the poured out, satisfied soul of our heavenly Parents and the poured out, contrite, converted soul of Their earthly children?

Those paradigms from the Dark Ages, that of a third person of the Godhead, which still cling to Reformation doctrine, need to be recanted, up-rooted and renounced, eternally.