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All that was ever lost will be brought back again. So the full purpose of creation will be accomplished. And much more. Because we will have it brought in. That's the end of the chapter. There's not only a field of persons and a treasure in the field, there's also a pearl of great price.
Meaning, he has a claim on this earth, it will be accomplished through the nation, but as well, there will be something added that creation never anticipated itself. And that is the prize, the pearl of great price.
All of that will be swirled and brought together, culminated in that age of self. So all that is presently a reality in the heavenlies, in Christ, translates, communicates to earth in that fullness of time.
Maybe that's the revelation of the... Now just move with that. We've gone on to the future, but we suddenly come back to what we now possess. Traditionally. In that one who will be the one that will head up everything, and culminate all God's purpose for earth, and things in heaven, and things in earth, all will be brought together in him, in his glory.
In him, we obtain an inheritance. All our inheritance is linked with all the greatness of the earth. Okay, this is a little thread in the needle here, but I think you have to understand, those who first trust in Christ, Paul, if he's writing this after Acts 28, he's still going back to those to whom the gospel went first.
To the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. The we written down to this point is all believers. The we at this point, he seems to define it now as those who first trust in Christ who will be Jews. We Jews have not lost anything in Christ.
We have the full inheritance in him. And so I take it that that is the point that is here, being predestinated to this, in keeping with God's purpose, and who is working all things. But there are inheritances, and in fact, just with that, reminding us of Peter's first official, there's an inheritance there.
Future, incorruptible. Fate is not awake, but what we're looking at here is a present inheritance, and it's ours. It's also the loss of all things. So any physical inheritance, any national identity, we lost it all.
It's a problem. That took a lot of work. No, it's supposed to be a certain truth. That's what God wants people to accept, I think. What's interesting, too, is that Bill is introducing, he includes himself, and then he refers to the other, he.
And then before he finishes, he talks about our inheritance. So just coming back, just hold on for a moment here. We've got to get there. We have 15 minutes left to go from there. But that we should be to the praise of the Lord.
So these Jews have been brought into this great lesson to be to the praise of the Lord. All of that has been accomplished by the redemption that is in Christ. But now, as you're saying, I'm going to change this, because you notice the word trusted is in Italian.
And maybe there's a difference here. But I wonder if Paul is not saying, in whom he also, having heard the word of the truth, does what his dominion has trusted. So I think that what Paul means here is, in whom we, and now he, the Gentile, have received this inheritance.
It's actually reflexive. Going back to the inheritance. Yes, the Jews have been brought into this promised inheritance. In a unique sense, in Christ. But the Gentiles have likewise been brought into this very same inheritance.
In whom he also. As in whom we were predestinated unto this. You also. And how did that happen? Well, they first trusted. But we heard the gospel. We, Gentiles and Episcopes, we heard the gospel. And you also trusted.
And having trusted, you received the Holy Spirit of promise.
We as not the Jewish nation, it's the Jewish disciples, that we first trusted.
Just making that distinction a little bit. Well, verse 5 is the destiny of the Son of Christ. Right. The Son of Christ also involves the destiny of the inheritance. Yes, you can't separate the Son of Mary from the inheritance.
If you're without chastisement, you're not a son. Right. But then you're no inheritance. You're only a son. If you're a son, you have an inheritance. So the great desire for the Lord Jesus is for unity.
And it's interesting, John 17, that in one of his last requests to the Father in relation to the saints, under verse 12, he speaks like this. In verse 12 he asks the Father to give him. Verse 12. He shall come and then.
And he wants them to be one, even as we are one. The great desire for the Lord Jesus is for unity among his people. Here we have it. It's unity among the Gentiles. Within the body we want to see unity as a continuing thing.
The saints' greatest attack on the things of God is a disunity among the people of God. That unity, of course, is going to be dealt with in chapter 2. And we're reminded in chapter 4 that it has been accomplished.
And our responsibility is to accomplish that. Just coming back to what we just said.
I want to know how long after I believe I receive my Holy Spirit. There's no time.
No time. No time. If you hadn't believed, you would see it. So the authorized translation is after that, which in this case you see.
And it is the promised Holy Spirit. So in other words, he's saying that the Spirit that I promised to you is the one who actually sealed you at the moment of your conversion. What does it mean to be sealed?
I just want to comment. There's two ways to take that Holy Spirit of promise. The Holy Spirit related to the promise for us, or the Holy Spirit related to the promise that was given by the Father that he would come.
Personally, I'd take the first one. Well, I mentioned it first, but I'd take one and maybe not have the other. But I don't see any problem with that either way. It's a matter of interpretation. I'll leave it there.
Thank God, yes, this unique promise relative to the Holy Spirit we now enjoy. And thank God that this Spirit is taking us onward to the fulfillment of the promise of God that's for us. The Holy Spirit doesn't need confirmation.
What do you think? Does that sound real to what you're saying? It sounds like they're anticipating the future. I think it's real to us now. Come on, I don't intend to go back on it. That's basically what you're reading about.
The only thing I can say is that he and he can pull it. That's what he is in himself. We are the Holy Spirit. We are looking at three persons of the Godhead into which we have been brought by an intimate, inseparable relationship.
The Spirit of God is well with us. We are one with Christ and accepted with all his acceptability. We have been placed as sons by the Father and have been brought into this. Listen, this is nothing ordinary.
This is beyond anything we've grasped. This intimate relationship with the Godhead. We have moved into the highest society of all the people of Christ. Accepted in that highest society. Free. As a believer, have I been sealed by the Spirit of God as an individual?
Yes.
As a believer, have I been forgiven of my sins as an individual? Yes. As a believer, have I been selected children of God as an individual?
Yes, and it's most important to emphasize these are all coming to us personally and individually. Yes, but now coming to this, this sealing, you asked what does this mean. They sealed the stone. Roman authority says you can't break this seal, you can't break the stone.
All the power of Rome is invested in that. All the power of heaven is invested in it. Damn the seal that belongs to Jesus Christ. Isn't that security, isn't it? There are other, well, there's other, there's other, I think in 2 Timothy, it's a seal of confidence, a longing.
And then it's linked with authority in the book of Esther. There's quite a bit. Actually, the first mention is the seal of, the last mention is the seal of the stone and saying it's bound, it's sealed for a thousand years.
So, there's a thought of power, there's a thought of authority that's involved and here we have the spirit of God as he himself doesn't seal us, he is the seal. The fact that we are indwelt by the spirit of God is heaven's message.
They belong to me. Nothing is going to take them away from my purpose for them to be. It has permanence. It has permanence involved in it.
I think that's a great, almost like branding cattle. You can't take the brand off of a cattle. It's a permanent marker. And I think it's not only in authority and so on, but it's, I'm going all the way to the finish line.
With the spirit of God. The seal of all the power of God. The seal of all the power of God. That's what Saint Timothy 2, as well as I'll mention Saint Timothy, I don't want to take the same direction as mine.
The foundation of God's standard is sure. And it is sealed. The Lord knoweth them that are his. So, it's his seal. It's the Lord that's doing it. Now, he knows them. For by the John 10, I know my sheep and I know not mine.
In the church of God, there may be those who should not be devils, but in the body, it's not just his. There are only that which is genuine, never the false. And he is protecting and holding. I give unto my sheep eternal life, and it's a double measure in John 10.
They shall never, never perish. There's a promise there. This was promised by the Father. He respects one. It was promised by the Father. And then, he was promised again in John's gospel by the Lord himself, John 16.
The promise of the Father. When he was 24, well, there's a reason for that. That's what we believe. It's a blessing. So, he's saying that the sealing is not something he does, but it's his presence. He's telling the believer it's his seal.
So, it's the earnest of him. That's what it's really like with the earnestness. The illustration of that, I think, is equivalent to the creature in that story. Brought out into the wilderness. Before they were ever in it, they could enjoy the fruits of the vine.
We have the first fruit of the Spirit in Romans chapter 8. That is, an anticipation of the fullness of what God is going to accomplish out of the creation. Here, the first fruit of all the fruits of blessings heaven and earth all brought together.
It is the down payment that's there. This is what you have now. And, I'm going to say something. No question. It will fully be accomplished. Mark, it will square the riches that the servant brought up.
Good. Thank you very much for bringing me back to that, because that's what I see here. It is. You know, my son, my master's son, has all his wealth, all the wealth, and what they talk about down the road, I don't know, but I think a lot of the words are just about Isaac, and about the riches of Isaac.
We have now the first fruit, the earnest fruit, the Spirit of the Word, of all the redemption that's going to come. So, living in the heavenlies is a wonderful thing, but there's actually more wonders beyond that.
Is that what I'm understanding, from the inheritance? In other words, there are limitations to my enjoyment today. I mean, make a better body, get no discretion to what I have. That's right. But my enjoyment actually is going to be increased in that way.
But, as the Spirit of God has His way with me, the greater my enjoyment of that will be. In order that, with the praise of His glory, with all being confident, what is God going to get out of me? The more I enjoy the work of the Spirit of God, the more I will gain glory, but even if I don't, He will have eternal glory from this earnest that He has given to us.
That's what I agree, David. The seal. The seal indicates that there's a guarantee that this inheritance is kept for us. When it comes to the earnest, that's the guarantee that the inheritance is kept for us.
So that we'll be kept for the inheritance, that's the seal. We'll be kept for us. The inheritance for us has to be kept for us. So you have the picture of finally the servant, Tim. Yeah. My magic self.
There he is. She laid down the camel and said to me, on one day, he looked at his feet and said, I just love her. She lies to me. David, she was not content so much with all his possessions, but with him.
And I can imagine she would say, tell me about it. You want to marry somebody you like to know something about them. And I think she would say, say, tell me about the day he was on the altar. That's what I would think.
Tell me about the day that he was on the altar. We're taken up with Christ and all that he's done. Not just the blessings but the glorious sin. The earth and the universe unto that redemption day. The full outcome for us of that redemption.
That was the conference that we all had. It's sad to think I'm just saying it's sad that outside the assembly of God there are a large number of dear believers in the Lord Jesus who are living sad lives because they have been taught and they're under this misapprehension that they can lose the salvation that we've been speaking about.
And no, that's a blow at the person of the Lord Jesus. It's saying that he's not capable of doing what he's promised. They've never read Ephesians 1. And if there's any here who have the least doubt.
As to the security of their salvation, listen to what the brethren have been said. Read the word of God. It's not in me. It's in Christ. And my dependence is not in me at all. It's in the work that he has done on the cross and solely in him.
Because I am like John 14, ye shall live also. He's alive. Let the rival live in him. David, we can read the spirit of God. Just to follow this. We can read the spirit of God. We can touch the spirit of God.
We will never have to pray what David prayed for him. Take not that holy spirit unto himself.
He's a seal. A permanent mark of authority. So, will you allow me to bring in the marriage of the last year. The redemption of the church's protection. And we'll be presented to Christ. And maybe even coming up from that in all the fullness of that manifestation of the liberty of the Son of God at the end of Revelation, the middle of Revelation, chapter 19, the glorious church of God in all its splendor.
So would you say, Pilate, that there is a right sense in which a believer cannot be too heavenly minded? Absolutely. That's not a very good thing to say. I mean, not heavenly minded. We can lose the sense of reality but that's not the end of the story.
Absolutely. The more heavenly minded we are, the more we enter into these wonders of truth, the more we're afflicted with offerings. Thank you all very much for your help. Thank you.