Seal of the Holy Spirit - a podcast by Hari Rao

Getting to Know Our Blessed Inheritance and Seal

“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.” (Ephesians 1:11-14)

Unfortunately, many of us have reduced the Holy Spirit to being a mystical being. We have defined Him based on the symptoms of what happens when He comes into a believer's life, and not for the Person that He is. The Holy Spirit is a far more precious commodity than what we make Him out to be. He is not a power, He is a person.

Without the Holy Spirit, Christianity would be just like any other religion. The Holy Spirit makes Christianity a reality to us. He is the most misunderstood and ignored Person in the Godhead. If your desire is to grow in your faith it is imperative that you develop a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and understand His role and function in your life.

Growing up in the faith, I always desired to be able to go back in time to see how Jesus prayed on the earth. I thought that it would be amazing to observe how He lived. One day, the beloved Holy Spirit nudged my heart, and said to me, “I was there, I can show you.” This is made possible because the same Spirit that was with Christ Jesus was now living in me. By the virtue of that Spirit, I am connected to the life of Jesus. He makes Jesus a reality in our life.

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14)

That means we can stand in the same shoes that John, Peter stood in and behold the beauty of the only begotten Son of God.

The Holy Spirit is our connecting point to the life of Jesus. Jesus Christ is a revelation that only the Holy Spirit can open your eyes to. In and by Him Jesus becomes tangible to us.



The Role of the Holy Spirit in Salvation

The born again experience is the work of the Holy Spirit, we cannot do it by ourselves. He places us in the body of Christ. When we are born again, we are born into a whole new world. As a part of being born again, you are marked by the Holy Spirit and that is what marks you as a legitimate son/daughter of God.

Without the Holy Spirit you cannot reach the Father as Abba. The Holy Spirit is God’s DNA in you. We receive the DNA of the first born of God, Jesus Christ. In His earthly body, He could not duplicate Himself, He could only multiply His Words (Spirit and Life).

When the Holy Spirit comes inside your life He brings Christ in you. He takes this uncontainable God and makes Him containable in you and me!

The same way that Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit to conceive Jesus, through this born again experience He covers us. Christ is born in us by the person of the Holy Spirit. It becomes our birth certificate in the Kingdom of God. He comes as proof that you are no longer far away from God. He is our assurance that we are not disconnected from God. Through this we become embraced in the family of God.

His seal upon our lives becomes the guarantee of our inheritance, and acts as legal proof that you have been marked for an inheritance in Christ Jesus. It is our certificate and will that guarantee an inheritance in Christ. It is also our proof of adoption into the family of God and the will that God has for my life. He keeps us and matures us all along the way.

In this season allow the Holy Spirit to rise up and show you who you truly are. In the process He will solidify your Sonship in your life.

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