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Sealed By His Love Series
Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 13, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: We are saved by the faith of Jesus and sealed by His love—obedience becomes joy when grace has written love on the heart.
Scripture Reading
> Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.”
— Revelation 7:2-3
> And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written in their foreheads.
— Revelation 14:1
(Prayer)
“Father, write Your name where fear used to live.
Let Your love be the seal that holds us when everything else shakes.
In Jesus’ name, amen.”
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>> Bridge – From Faith to Love
Last week we saw that we are saved by the faith of Jesus—not by the size of our belief but by the steadiness of His.
When our faith faltered, His never failed.
That same faith that rescued us now begins its second miracle: it writes love where fear used to live.
Salvation was never meant to stop at rescue.
Grace is not an ambulance; it is a rebirth.
The faith that saves also seals.
Revelation pictures a world splitting into two kinds of loyalty—those who carry the mark of fear and those who receive the seal of love.
Both are invisible to the eye yet unmistakable in the spirit.
One is branded by coercion; the other is written by consent.
So the question before us is simple and eternal:
What does it mean to be sealed by the love of God?
How does the faith of Jesus produce obedience so deep it can only be called love engraved on the heart?
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>> Marked or Sealed
In the end, every life will bear a mark.
Not a barcode or microchip—but an inner signature, the evidence of what rules the heart.
Some will live under the mark of fear.
Their obedience will come from pressure, survival, or the need to belong to the winning side.
They will serve God as a prisoner serves a warden—outwardly compliant, inwardly resentful.
But others will bear the seal of love.
They obey because they love the One who first loved them.
Their obedience is free, not forced; joyful, not fearful.
The commandments sound like promises whispered, not orders shouted.
In Scripture a seal means ownership, authenticity, and protection.
A king sealed a decree to say, “This belongs to me. It carries my authority. Touch it only under my care.”
That’s what God does with His people.
He places His name—His character—upon the mind and the heart.
When Revelation says the saints have the Father’s name in their foreheads, it means that how they think, love, and choose has been shaped by His Spirit.
The seal, then, is not about exclusion; it’s about transformation.
The same hand that lifted you from the pit presses the imprint of love deep within you.
And when the storms come, that mark doesn’t wash off, because it’s written with the ink of grace.
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>> The Faith That Writes Love
The same hand that formed humanity from the dust now writes love into human hearts.
That is what the seal of God really means—His creative power working in us again.
The Sabbath carries that truth.
It’s more than a day of rest; it’s the celebration of both creation and redemption.
He made us—and when we fell, He redeemed us.
Every Sabbath is God’s weekly declaration: “I can create you, and I can re-create you.”
That’s why the seal and the Sabbath belong together—not because of legal demand but because both proclaim the same gospel.
One says, “He made me.”
The other says, “He remade me.”
When we rest in His finished work, we testify not to a doctrine but to a relationship.
The mark of fear says, “I must do something to survive.”
The seal of love says, “He has done everything so I may live.”
It is the faith of Jesus—His unshakable trust in the Father—that writes that truth on our hearts.
Once it’s written there, obedience stops being duty and becomes delight.
Commandments no longer sound like conditions; they sound like promises kept by grace.
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>> The Spirit of Antichrist
The Bible warns that before Christ returns, a counterfeit spirit will rise—a spirit that looks religious but smells like control.
John called it the spirit of antichrist—not always loud, not always obvious, but always subtracting freedom from faith.
It shows up wherever people are forced to bow instead of invited to love.
We’ve seen its shadow in every century—persecution, nationalism baptized as piety, religion welded to politics, any power that says “Do this or else.”
That’s not the Spirit of Jesus.
The true Spirit never coerces; He convinces.
