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When God sets his seal on a man’s heart by his Spirit, there is some holy stamp, some image impressed, and left upon the heart by the Spirit, as by the seal upon the wax. And this holy stamp, or impressed image, exhibiting clear evidence to the conscience that the subject of it is the child of God, is the very thing which in Scripture is called the seal of the Spirit, and the witness or evidence of the Spirit. And this mark stamped by the Spirit on God’s children is his own image. That is the evidence by which they are known to be God’s children; they have the image of their Father stamped upon their hearts by the Spirit of adoption.

Jonathan Edwards

5785 It is extraordinary how things fall off from a man like autumn leaves once he comes to the place where there is no rule but that of the personal domination of the Holy Spirit.

Oswald Chambers

God is the One who seals, Christ is the sphere in which the seal is done, and the Holy Spirit is the instrument of the seal.

Harold W. Hoehner

Seal the bargain with a holy kiss.

William Shakespeare

The Holy Spirit is not a luxury meant to make deluxe Christians, as an illuminated frontispiece and a leather binding make a deluxe book. The Spirit is an imperative necessity. Only the Eternal Spirit can do eternal deeds.12

A. W. Tozer

Ephesians 1:13–14, Paul tells us we were sealed in Christ “with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession.

John F. MacArthur

5798 The Holy Spirit does not obliterate a man’s personality; he lifts it to its highest use.

Oswald Chambers

We could not pray at all were it not for the Holy Spirit.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“visible signs and seals of an inward and invisible thing, by means whereof God works in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Millard J. Erickson

Proper understanding of the Scriptures comes only through the Holy Spirit.

Martin Luther

The Holy Spirit cannot be located as a guest in a house. He invades everything.

Oswald Chambers

Wherever Jesus is glorified, the Holy Spirit comes!16

A. W. Tozer

The inward operation of the Holy Spirit is necessary to saving faith. The gospel is light but only the Spirit can give sight.8

A. W. Tozer

There is not a better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

Dwight L. Moody

The Holy Spirit is the seal, and that guarantees that God is going to deliver us. We are sealed until the day of redemption. The day will come when the Holy Spirit will deliver us to Christ.

J. Vernon McGee

The day of Pentecost was the point of transition between the old covenant work and ministry of the Holy Spirit and the new covenant work and ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Wayne Grudem

The Holy Spirit is pure, for He is the Holy Spirit. He is wise, for He is the Spirit of wisdom. He is true, for He is the Spirit of truth. He is like Jesus, for He is the Spirit of Christ. He is like the Father, for He is the Spirit of die Father. He wants to be the Lord of your life, and He wants to possess you so that you are no longer in command of the little vessel in which you sail. You may be a passenger on board, or one of the crew, but you definitely are not in charge. Someone else is in command of the vessel.23

A. W. Tozer

Wherever the Holy Spirit is present, He makes men of gold out of men of clay.

John Chrysostom

The sealing with the Holy Spirit is primarily a matter of assurance of salvation. It is that which gives us a direct and immediate assurance that we are the children of God, and heirs of God, and that the inheritance is ultimately to be ours.

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ, 157

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Holy Spirit himself is the seal.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

All the Holy Spirit’s influences are heaven begun, glory in the seed and bud.

Matthew Henry

The Holy Spirit came to carry the evidence of Christianity from the book of apologetics into the human heart.11

A. W. Tozer

Paul’s point is to draw a sharp contrast between what those who have the Holy Spirit (i.e., Christians) say about Jesus, and what those who do not have the Holy Spirit say about Jesus.

D. A. Carson

The office of the Spirit promised to us is not to form new and unheard-of revelations, or to coin a new form of doctrine by which we may be led away from the received doctrine of the gospel, but to seal on our minds the very doctrine that the gospel recommends.

John Calvin

Bishop Westcott sums up very well the meaning of ‘him hath God the Father sealed’ by saying that it means ‘solemnly set apart for the fulfilment of [a] charge, and authenticated by intelligible signs’. The Father had authenticated the Son by intelligible signs—the miracles, the works, the words, everything about Him.

God’s Ultimate Purpose, 247

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones