23rd March, ’14 w/k – Benevolence Now that we have taken full stock of the importance of the Abrahamic Pattern of Faith ( now the Record of Jesus Christ) and have clarified its importance to you, we now come to the part of this lesson where we are going to discuss in detail God’s meaning for the seal of the Spirit and the connection between the seal and circumcision, and discuss the value of tongues. Why did God give such a strange token as evidence of the indwelling Spirit? I will continue to bring the reader back to the importance of the seal of the Spirit because this is where so many fail to understand what salvation is all about. I brought out earlier how that Paul acknowledged physical circumcision as the “SEAL” of the covenant for Abraham: And he [Abraham] received the SIGN of circumcision, a SEAL of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the FATHER of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also (Rom. 4:11). As most of you know, it is the Spirit that circumcises the heart of Satan’s root and fruit. Paul identifies this work of the Spirit when he wrote, But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and CIRCUMCISION is that of the heart, in the spirit” (Rom.2:29). Why is this important to our study? First, you must know that if you are not baptized with the Holy Spirit evidenced by tongues that the circumcision cannot take place. Secondly, we see here a change in circumcision, from the outer man (Abraham’s experience) to the inner man (our experience).
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