I do agree that the sealing is by the Holy Spirit, but I do not agree that man ever lost his right to say, No, to God.
Absolutely, an UN-COMMITED man can walk away.
Scripture warns to BE SURE of your election of God.
2 Pet 1:10
....give diligence to make your calling and election sure...
IOW - IF one is choosing to commit to God, Be sure.
Repeatedly, in Scripture, it is told to us, He makes the changes within us, to save our souls, and quicken our spirits, both to forever life, and that His Spirit would forever be with us.
And - we already know, He knows all things. He knows IF one will give lip service, then reneg. And He will not be shamed or mocked to give a man gifts of everlasting life, to then have the man claim to reject what the Lord has given him.
Some claim to have been Saved, and later reject belief. They certainly may have gone through the motions; lip service; water baptism.....but they never tricked God and received salvation or a quickening of their spirit.
Receiving the Gift of Salvation giving the man a restored soul, saved forever living and the Seed of God, birthing a mans new spirit;
Is an Express FOREVER Division of a man WITH the Lord Forever, from a man WITHOUT the Lord, less he submit before his natural life ends.
Jesus came to DIVIDE. Luke 12:51
Gifting men with a saved forever living soul;
And
Gifting a man with a quickened forever living spirit;
IS HOW the Lord IS Dividing those who belong TO Him, as His People, from those who reject Him, and will, after Judgement, forever be separated from Him.
He should not, but he does and when he does he gets into trouble with God.
The "trouble" would be MOCKING God, or bringing SHAME upon God.
Gal 6:7
Heb 6:6
God will tolerate neither.
I believe is that God has provided man with means to become like God wants him to be but man must use what he has
and ask for help as needed from God all along the way. He will always need some help until he has overcome all that stands between him and God, which essentially is described in this verse:
Sure. It is simply described in Scripture.
Ask and you shall receive.
Some ask to be With Him.
Some ask to be Without Him.
All shall receive what they freely choose.
"If on the other hand we quench the Spirit and follow the "lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life", we will then be led to sin again... in spite of the sealing. Quenching the Holy Spirit in us is in effect breaking the seal.
Disagree.
Jews had laws. Not doing the laws was a sin.
What applied to the Jews did not apply to Gentiles. Yet we have a mix of both being taught something new (NT), while making references to their old ways, ie Jews (OT), and Gentiles, (idols and such).
A man saved and born again IS Sealed, once and forever, as the Lord repeatedly says Forever.
A man so saved and born again...HAS the Spirit of God; the Spirit of Gods TRUTH IN HIM.
Quenching the Holy Spirit - IS a man having first hand, Direct communication with God, with His absolute Truth.......BUT the man is doing nothing with it.
He isn't speaking it, sharing it, teaching it, ...
ZIP.
IOW - the man is doing NOTHING with this great gift God has given the man.
The man IS silent, keeping quite, oppressing, quenching....the Truth of the Holy Spirit.
And the mans silence, IS grievous TO the Holy Spirit.
It has nothing to do with breaking the SEAL of a mans salvation or quickened spirit.
Nor anything to do with the mans NAME in the Lambs book of life.
Nor is it a sin.
Inanutshell it is disappointing to God, for Him to have given a man great gifts to truthfully testify of the Lord, ACCORDING to the Lords truth....and the man isn't.
That is quenching the Holy Spirit, and they were being warned and instructed against leaving their great gift dormant.
God Bless,
Taken