ETERNAL LIFE BY HIS FREE GIFT
" Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." -II Corinthians 1:22 [KJV] None but a sinner believing in Christ can say, God hath sealed me. But every believer in Him may truly say so. This seemed very plain from a former meditation. Do all believers alike enjoy the comfort of this sealing? No: no more than any one believer, alike, at all times, enjoys the comfort of it. This is a certain truth, “by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1.) Though every believer is alike justified before God, and is at peace with Him, yet every one has not the like sense of peace, nor any one, at all times. So it is of this blessed privilege of sealing. But if it is not considered and believed, that it may be alike enjoyed in common by all believers, many will rest short of the comfort of it. And, indeed, this is the case. How few believers are crying, Lord! give me the comfort of this sealing . In believing,...