Anointing Spirit VS Sealing Spirit VS Pledging Spirit
2 Cor 1:21 "Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God"
2 Cor 1:22 "who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit as a pledge in our hearts"
Aspects |
Anointing Spirit |
Sealing Spirit |
Pledging Spirit |
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Description |
The indwelling compound Spirit that operates and works within believers, dispensing God's divine elements into them |
The Spirit that forms a seal of divine elements within believers, expressing God's image |
The Spirit that gives believers a foretaste, serving as a sample and guarantee of God's full enjoyment |
Functions |
• Anoints the compound God into believers • Unites, mingles, and merges believers with God • Teaches believers to understand God's will • Produces inner sensations for guidance |
• Continuously saturates believers until their body's redemption • Transforms believers into God's treasures • Causes believers to bear God's image • Constitutes believers as God's masterpiece |
• Guarantees God as believers' inheritance • Gives believers a foretaste of God's riches • Enables believers to enjoy God as their inheritance |
Distinctions |
Focuses on dispensing and operating process |
Focuses on forming God's image and seal |
Focuses on providing foretaste and guarantee |
Applications |
• Following inner sensations in daily life • Seeking God's guidance through prayer • Obeying inner teachings |
• Expressing God's image in life • Manifesting God's nature in life • Being transformed to be God's testimony |
• Experiencing and enjoying God's presence • Exercising spirit to enjoy God • Tasting God's riches |
Key Scriptures |
Phil 1:19 "For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ" Ex 30:23-25 "Take the finest spices... to make a holy anointing oil" 1 John 2:20, 27 "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things... and this anointing teaches you concerning all things" |
Eph 1:13 "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth... having believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise" Eph 4:30 "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption" 2 Cor 3:18 "But we all... are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory" |
2 Cor 1:22 "who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit as a pledge in our hearts" 2 Cor 5:5 "Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge" Eph 1:14 "who is given as a pledge of our inheritance" Ps 34:8 "O taste and see that the LORD is good" 1 Pet 2:3 "if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord" |
Interrelationships:
- 1. Progressive Relationship
- * Starts with anointing: receiving God's elements
- * Proceeds to sealing: forming God's image
- * Advances to pledging: enjoying God's riches
- 2. Complementary Relationship
- * Anointing enables believers to receive God's elements
- * Sealing forms these elements into God's image
- * Pledging enables believers to truly enjoy God's riches
- 3. Integral Operation
- * All three aspects are different dimensions of the Spirit's work
- * Together they complete God's full salvation for believers
- * Work in coordination, inseparable from each other
- 4. Ultimate Goal
- * Complete filling with God
- * Full expression of God's image
- * Full enjoyment of God as eternal inheritance
*Please refer to the July 2024 Anaheim, California, USA training Experiencing, Enjoying and Manifesting Christ (II) Week 18 God’s Grace and the All-Inclusive Spirit