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That this is not spoken of the mere empty professor is plain from the statement about the Spirit which follows, "whereby" (literally, in Whom) "ye were ‡ sealed unto the day of redemption." The sealing is spoken of as no exceptional or advanced experience of some of them, but as the common privilege of all believers, and as necessarily following upon the fact of their being believers at all. It is mentioned, too, as a past experience, but as one which was to continue without fail right on to "the day of redemption." It is beautiful to notice this blessed assurance; because we should rather have expected (and some speak to believers as if it had really been written so) "grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, lest He should * From “Filled with the Spirit," a small volume just published: see notice on back of the cover. The Editor hopes that his readers will allow him to introduce this little volume to their kindly notice by this extract. The whole subject is a very important one, and he trusts that a careful study of the book may give clearer views about it to many. This is the meaning of the word translated "done despite to" in Heb. x. 29. This, and not "are sealed " (as in our Authorised Version), is the right translation of the original language. forsake you." But instead of this, we have a distinct statement of a secure and permanent sealing by the Spirit. Indeed, the fact of this sealing having so really taken place is not only the condition which alone makes such a grieving to be possible; but it forms also the urgently strong motive for avoiding a possibility so sad, and, at the same time, actually supplies the power in which to avoid it. Here again, be it noticed, as in 1 Cor. vi. 15-20, the Apostle exhorts believers to holiness, not in order to obtain the Spirit's indwelling presence; but he first insists upon the sealing being a reality; and then he exhorts them upon the ground of it, and in the strength of it, to act consistently with it. Not only is the personality of the Holy Spirit very clearly revealed by the very idea of grieving Him, but the reality of His indwelling is, of course, taken for granted. Very close and intimate must be the mutual relationship when any misconduct on the believer's part "grieves" the Spirit. Moreover, there is something very touching about the very word (in the original language) which is chosen to express the results of the careless, inconsistent living of His sealed ones on the Holy Spirit Himself. He is said to be grieved; and anyone who will carefully study the references given in the foot-note will see, from the various uses of the word * **It is the word used to express the "sorrowful," in Matt. xxvi. 37, of our Lord at the Garden of Gethsemane. It is used also of the disciples' sorrow on hearing of Christ's approaching death (Matt. xvii. 23); so also in our Lord's description of their state on the night of His betrayal (John xvi. 22), and being told by Him that one of them should betray Him (Matt. xxvi. 22; Mark xiv. 19); of the sorrow of the rich young man who "went away" from Christ (Matt. xix. 22; Mark x. |