The Holy Spirit, being God, can plumb the depths of God and is the only One Who

can. What created being can search and discover God to perfection in all His fullness?

What a mighty aid then we have in the Person of The Holy Spirit, the great Revealer of

Truth so that "we might know the things that are freely given to us of God" (I Cor. 2: 12).

All this is conveyed to us by the Scriptures which are "words . . . . . which the Holy

Ghost teacheth" (verse 13). The Apostle asserts that "the natural man receiveth not the

things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he get to know

them because they are spiritually discerned" (verse 14). Unaided, man cannot get to

know the things of God. Education and intellectual power will not avail here.

In other words we, as believers, are shut up to the revealing power of the Holy Spirit

working upon the holy Scriptures, and it is by this alone that we get to know the truth

lying behind the words contained in the Word of God, as we humbly read and seek divine

illumination and understanding. So we have to pray with the Psalmist:

Let us get this quite clear. God's enlightenment cannot come from theological courses

or by any special methods of study by themselves. It can only come from the Holy Spirit

of wisdom and revelation (Eph. 1: 13-19), the great Revealer of the truth He Himself has

caused to be written.

If by grace we have come to know "the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" and the

prize attached to it (Phil. 3: 14), then it is by the operation of the same Holy Spirit as

Ephesians declares. Eph. 1: is a marvelous revelation of the will of the Father (1: 3-5),

the redemptive work of the Son (5-12), & the revealing power of the Holy Spirit (12-23).

This gives us the divine basis for God's purpose of grace for the Body of Christ from its

beginning to the end when its hope is realized. The Holy Spirit seals us (13), which is a

figurative way of emphasizing the complete security of each member of the Body of

Christ. No believer can accomplish this eternal security by his own power or actions.

God the Holy Spirit sets His seal upon the salvation of the believer at the moment of

This work of the Spirit does not refer to some exalted experience subsequent to

salvation, for the tense of the Greek verbs show that the believing and sealing take place

at the same time. The A.V. "after believing you were sealed" is misleading and not true.

This "sealing" is the culmination of the act of salvation on God's part. It does not

indicate where the sealed person will be blessed in resurrection. That is made known in

other parts of Ephesians and Colossians. It is basic, not dispensational; and this is seen

by the reference to the Holy Spirit's seal in chapter 4:, "grieve not the Holy Spirit of

God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption" (4: 30). Nor is the sealing

something that is confined to the great Mystery (Secret) of Eph. 3: and Col. 1: If we

turn to II Cor. 1: 21, 22, we read: