Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion Q04018 Whether a believer can lose the Holy Spirit is not simply a question about experience or emotion. It touches the nature of salvation itself and the faithfulness of God to His covenant promises. The question deserves a careful answer drawn from what Scripture actually teaches, rather than from either fear or presumption. What…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3013 1 John 2:1 is one of those verses that manages to be both deeply pastoral and precisely theological in the same breath: “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04119 When Paul writes to the Ephesian believers that they were “sealed with the promised Holy Spirit” (Ephesians 1:13), he reaches for language drawn from the commercial and legal world of his day. A seal was not decorative. It was a mark of ownership that identified what belonged to whom, and a binding guarantee…