I don't find "to activate the Holy Spirit" in my bible.
Perhaps you can give me scripture references as to HOW to activate, like a switch, the Holy Spirit?
J.
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In whom ye also — Ye Gentiles. Supply as English Version, “trusted,” from Eph_1:12; or “are.” The priority of us Jews does not exclude you Gentiles from sharing in Christ (compare Act_13:46).
the word of truth — the instrument of sanctification, and of the new birth (Joh_17:17; 2Ti_2:15; Jas_1:18). Compare Col_1:5, where also, as here, it is connected with “hope.”
Also Eph_4:21.
sealed — as God’s confirmed children, by the Holy Spirit as the seal (Act_19:1-6; Rom_8:16, Rom_8:23; 1Jn_3:24; see on 2Co_1:22). A seal impressed on a document gives undoubted validity to the contract in it (Joh_3:33; Joh_6:27; compare 2Co_3:3).
So the sense of “the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost” (Rom_5:5), and the sense of adoption given through the Spirit at regeneration (Rom_8:15, Rom_8:16), assure believers of God’s good will to them. The Spirit, like a seal, impresses on the soul at regeneration the image of our Father.
The “sealing” by the Holy Spirit is spoken of as past once for all. The witnessing to our hearts that we are the children of God, and heirs (Eph_1:11), is the Spirit’s present testimony, the “earnest of the (coming) inheritance” (Rom_8:16-18).
that Holy Spirit of promise — rather, as the Greek, “The Spirit of promise, even the Holy Spirit”: The Spirit promised both in the Old and New Testaments (Joe_2:28; Zec_12:10; Joh_7:38, Joh_7:39). “The word” promised the Holy Spirit. Those who “believed the word of truth” were sealed by the Spirit accordingly.
Jamieson.
sealed
The Holy Spirit is Himself the seal. In the symbolism of Scripture a seal signifies:
(1) A finished transaction Jer_32:9; Jer_32:10; Joh_17:4; Joh_19:30.
(2) Ownership Jer_32:11; Jer_32:12; 2Ti_2:19
(3) Security Est_8:8; Dan_6:17; Eph_4:30
ye also: Eph_2:11-12; Col_1:21-23; 1Pe_2:10
after that ye heard: Eph_4:21; Joh_1:17; Rom_6:17, Rom_10:14-17; Col_1:4-6, Col_1:23; 1Th_2:13
the word: Psa_119:43; 2Co_6:7; 2Ti_2:15; Jas_1:18
the gospel: Mar_16:15-16; Act_13:26; Rom_1:16; 2Ti_3:15; Tit_2:11; Heb_2:3
ye were: Eph_4:30; Joh_6:27; Rom_4:11; 2Co_1:22; 2Ti_2:19; Rev_7:2
holy: Joe_2:28; Luk_11:13, Luk_24:49; Joh_14:16-17, Joh_14:26, Joh_15:26, Joh_16:7-15; Act_1:4; Act_2:16-22, Act_2:33; Gal_3:14
J.