A Guarantee.

This is Kingdom terminology, meaning that someone is anointed for some regal position.

Peter captures this idea when he declares in,

1 Peter 2:9 but you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Hear this word, we are not speaking here of a temporal kingdom; this is God‘s eternal kingdom, and God himself has anointed us to be part of it!

Psalm 92:10-12TPT Your anointing has made me strong and mighty. You’ve empowered my life for triumph by pouring fresh oil over me. 11You’ve said that those lying in wait to pounce on me would be defeated, and now it’s happened right in front of my eyes, and I’ve heard their cries of surrender! 12Yes! Look how you’ve made all your devoted lovers to flourish like palm trees, each one growing in victory, standing with strength!

Again 1 and 2. We have been established, and anointed.

Remember this, Jesus gives a definite “Yes” according to His promises:

-3. God set His seal of ownership upon us.

Historically, kings and other royalty used seals as a means of communicating integrity, and the assurance of the authority of a message.

They would pour melted wax upon a letter that was closed. Then they would seal it with an impression of their ring, or other official insignia stamped into the wax.

However, Once the letter was opened, and the seal was broken, you could not ensure it’s contents anymore.

We have in our country, a seal, that signifies the rights and privileges of citizenship, but Christians have a greater seal given by God that ensures much more.

Remember, God demonstrated his seal upon the Israelites, protecting them from the plagues that the Egyptians would experience.

Many references to this in the book of, Exodus.

Again, you have been sealed! The devil can’t open this seal, nor can men judge your heart, but you better believe God judges.

Remember this, throughout the Bible, God dealt differently with those who were His covenant people!

A graphic example of this is found in, Exodus 12:12. On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn – both men and animals – and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

When the judgments of God come upon this earth, no eternal judgment will harm believers, because we had the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to protect us

As we read in, Revelation 9:4NLT ”They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.“

Again we have been bought and purchased by the blood of the lamb. God has placed his seal upon us, ensuring that his protection will last through any enduring trials or judgment, both now and forever.

Hebrews 10:16-17NLT ”“This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 17 Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”“