The Spirit is Our Hope for the Future (TMF:880)

Friday, May 04, 2018
Peace to Live By: The Spirit is Our Hope for the Future (TMF:880) - Daniel Litton
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       The Spirit of God is our hope for the future. The best verses I think to explain this is are in Ephesians 1:13 and 14. It says, “In him [Christ] you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory” (ESV). So, the Holy Spirit was the “promised Holy Spirit,” because Christ promised his coming to the disciples in John 14. This was before he went back to heaven, and he promised he would come after he did. But his presence within us assures us that we will in fact be saved from God’s wrath to come in the future. When the Spirit bears witness with our spirit, we know that we belong to God and that we will go to Heaven in the future when we die, or are Raptured.