Can You Pawn Your Eternal Life?
If, you buy a home in Oklahoma, you only own the surface of the land. Someone else more than likely owns the minerals or oil below. They can drill on your land and pay you hardly anything for all the minerals they take from the land. I do not know if Oklahoma is unique in this, but it must have been a conniving schemer who figured people would pay full price for the surface rights while being denied the right to the minerals that lay beneath it.
Can you imagine what it would be like if we could sell our spirit separate from our bodies and souls? What would it be like if you were in a really tight jam, and you could pawn your eternal life to get enough cash to see you through till you could redeem your spirit? Some sharp sucker would buy up the unredeemed holy spirits, bundle them up in even lots of 100 each and sell them on the futures market. Then if God still wanted us for sons and daughters, He would have to redeem us all over again!
Fortunately, this is impossible. We cannot be separated from the holy spirit we received at the moment we were born again. God cannot jerk it out or reclaim it if we are bad. We cannot pawn it if we are broke, and no one can steal it if we are not paying attention! It cannot be sold out from under us. God’s gift to us of holy spirit is permanent. What a blessing! Jesus Christ did a perfect work of redemption.
Ephesians 1:13 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,
And as if saying it once in Ephesians were not enough, God says it again so we cannot say it was just an odd verse.
Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Sealed—that is pretty clear. We live in the greatest administration yet. Adam lost his spirit; Saul lost his, but ours is sealed. We cannot sin it away. We cannot misplace it. We will never see it for sale on the futures market. No one can separate us from our gift of eternal life.
Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Not even a sharp attorney with all the legalese in the world can separate you from your father.
Galations 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption (sonship, or that we might be placed as sons by name and by birth) of sons.
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption (sonship) of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
God changed the rules concerning adoption. When He places a person as a son or daughter, He does it right! Placed as sons by name and by birth!!
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