When are you sealed with the Holy Spirit according to Ephesians 1:13?
According to Ephesians 1:13, believers are sealed with the Holy Spirit after they heard the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, and after they believed. This sealing is the Holy Spirit of promise, given as a down payment of our inheritance.
Les explains that Ephesians 1:13 places the sealing with the Holy Spirit after hearing the word of truth—the Gospel of salvation—and after believing. This sealing is part and parcel of the salvation experience, marking believers by the person of the Holy Spirit Himself. Verse 14 calls Him the earnest, a down payment sufficient to ensure the transaction is completed. The indwelling Holy Spirit, as a result of salvation, is the down payment of our inheritance, which believers will have as joint heirs with Christ, held until the redemption of the purchased possession. Les notes that soul and spirit are redeemed in full, but the body awaits redemption.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,