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IS IT IN YOU?  

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.   

Ephesians 1:13-14 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession—to the praise of his glory.  

2 Corinthians 5:16-19 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.  

I love Scripture passages like those I have introducing this blog. They are confirmations from the Apostle Paul to the believers of his day that they were genuinely in Christ. If his readers could not associate the Apostles words with their own experience, they knew something was wrong that needed righted. This is true of today’s Christians also. 

If I were a confessing Christian, and read about how God set his seal of ownership of the promised Holy Spirit, but I didn’t have that Spirit, I would want to rectify that situation immediately. If I read about a deposit I was supposed to have received that made me a new creation, but I still felt like the same old me, I would wonder why. 

Paul clearly states that when we are regenerated, we will get a deposit as a first fruit of what we will get when Christ returns to claim His kingdom, the guaranteeing what is to come.  

Is that guarantee in you?