unless we are acquainted with its essential features.  We can just point the

way in these pages and hope that each reader will take the matter further.

We have given prominence in the structure to the two great subjects

that repeat themselves, namely `The Sealing of the Spirit' and the `One

Spirit'.  Let us look at these, but let us give heed in the first place to

the one mention of `One Spirit'.

In Ephesians 2:18 we read:

`For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father'.

There is a most evident parallel here with the passage containing the

one other occurrence of `One Spirit'.

First, as in the sevenfold unity of Ephesians 4, the `One Spirit' is

closely connected with the `One Body'.

`And that He might reconcile the both unto God in one body by the cross

... For through Him we, the both, have access in (same as "in One

Body") One Spirit unto the Father' (2:16 -18).

Further, in the sevenfold Unity of the Spirit we have `One God and

Father', here in Ephesians 2:16-18, the titles are distributed.

`In One Body reconciled to God'.

`In one spirit access to the Father'.

Again, this Unity of the Spirit, is kept `in the bond of peace'.

Literally, the passage reads `in the bond of the peace' and one naturally

asks `what peace?'  The answer is supplied from Ephesians 2:14 -15.

`He is our peace, Who hath made the both one ... to create in Himself

of the twain one new man, so making peace' (Eph. 2:14,15.)

When we `endeavour to keep' the truth concerning the One Spirit in this

sevenfold unity, it is assumed that Ephesians 2:11 -19 is understood and

appreciated.  The dispensational disability of being a Gentile has been

removed by the blood of Christ, the far off have been made nigh.  The middle

wall, that is the enmity caused by the decrees of Acts 15 which

differentiated the Gentile believer from his Jewish brethren, has been

abolished and the two great items `One Body' and `One Spirit' are the two

great expressions of the newly created `One New Man' of Ephesians 2:15.

Instead, therefore, of allowing anyone on any pretext to explain away

the `One Body' or the `One Spirit' as though they had no real place in the

Mystery, we discover that they are near the very heart of the truth for the

present dispensation.

The two references to the sealing of the Spirit speak for themselves,

the first reference announces a most blessed fact, and reveals the necessity

for `keeping' the `One Spirit' in much the same way as we would keep the

`earnest' or `title deeds' of an earthly inheritance or possession.

The second reference to the sealing of the Spirit deals with our

practical response to such high privileges.  It is important to remember that

while the word lupeo translated here `grieve' (Eph. 4:30), occurs some