Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 04119. The sealing of the Spirit is the term Paul uses in Ephesians to describe something that happened to you the moment you believed and that nothing since has been able to undo. When he tells the Ephesian believers they were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13), he is reaching for language…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4018. Can you lose the Holy Spirit once you have Him? This is a tender question, and it is usually asked by someone who is frightened rather than curious. They have sinned badly, or they have gone through a cold and prayerless season, and they wonder whether the Spirit has quietly slipped away. So…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04035. Few areas cause more confusion than the Spirit’s ministries to the believer, because the New Testament uses four different pictures that are easy to run together. We are born of the Spirit, baptised in the Spirit, sealed by the Spirit, and filled with the Spirit, and a great deal of unnecessary anxiety comes…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10070 The 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 and 14 are 144,000 Jewish evangelists who will preach the gospel during the tribulation period. They are not a symbolic number representing all believers, nor are they an elite group within Christianity. Rather, they are a specific number of Jewish men from the twelve tribes of Israel…