"A seal is a device with a cut or raised emblem, symbol, or word used especially to certify a signature or authenticate a document" Merriam Webster Dictionary.

When people see seal upon a document, they give reverence to it, believing it's authentic and accept it has a final decree. But then, what's the essence of a seal upon an empty document. It's nothing but a waste of investment.

�For today, we will be considering 2 Bible characters which portray the seal of God upon an individual and what an empty content means.


PHARISEE

�They had the law written upon tables and on scrolls, but they didn't allow God to write the law in their hearts. No wander they remained sinners. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Psalms 119:11

�They were resting on the external privileges of the blessings of Abraham, but not the eternal faith of Abraham unto salvation. "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." Luke 3:8

�They were resting on the external privileges of the blessings of Abraham, but not the eternal faith of Abraham unto salvation. "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." Luke 3:8

�They instructed the foolish without acknowledging their own folly. "Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.(such as ablution) And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God (faith in Christ and repentance unto godliness) that ye may keep your own tradition. Mark 7:7-9

�They had the special presence of God in the temple made by hands, yet they didn't allow God to dwell in their temple made without hand (their body which is the temple of the Holy Ghost). "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ephesians 3:15-19. Even as the glory of God filled the physical temple.

�They had a form of Godliness but denied the power thereof. Such as, in dressing and church attendance, but the real transformation of the heart and regeneration of the spirit are missing.

�They were religious but not rightousness. Righteousness comes by faith in Christ.

�They knew Jesus came from God, yet they persecuted Him

�They supposed to show their people the way to God, yet they rejected God’s own Gift to the world willfully.


Lessons

��The best knowledge can produce is a form of godliness. Remember, it can't produce the power.

��The best you can be, by being sanctimonious, is to be religious but not righteous.

�� External observances without internal piety are as nothing. Religion without righteousness is vain. Eternal cleaniness without inward cleansing amounts to nothing.

��Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1 Corinthians 7:19

��You can be eloquent in speech, and skilled in the controversy of religion, remember, it's he Holy Spirit that brings conviction.

��You can win an argument, and clear people's doubt but it's Holy Spirit that convicts. Head knowledge is unfruitful if it doesn't bring you to repentance and refreshing in prayers.



SAMSON

�Samson had the anointing, yet he was a fornicator and hardly escaped the danger of an harlot.

�Samson was a man of strength. However, he was robbed of his strength by his own lust.

�Samson was a great man, yet he was betrayed into the hand of his sworned enemies.

�Samson was a worrior, yet he was consumed in his own lust and became an object of mockery.

�Samson was a promised child, but he terminated his own ministry on the lap of Delilah.

�Samson was born by the Will of God, but he didn't do the will of God in marriage nor in lifestyle.

�Samson was a covenant child, yet he didn't make covenant with his own eyes like Job did.

�Samson was filled with power, yet he fell into the love of women and lusted after them.

�Samson was elected of God right from his mother's womb, but he was a lair. He was mighty on the outside but feeble on the inside.

�Samson was a man of influence but he indulged his sensual appetites in unceaniness and fleshly.


Lessons

��Anointing is not necessary a sign of spiritual power. Spiritual power is the ability to put your body under subjection and to be master your own body. Spiritual power is having dominion over temptations and tempters, seductions and seducers, sins and self, trials and temperaments.

��The anointed does not fall because of anointing but weakness of his human spirit. We can always get anointing while a strong spirit is not a gift. However, a strong spirit is built over time, with delebrate effort of eating the word and refreshing in the place of prayer.

 For the fact that you can perform signs and wonders does not guarantee the presence of God in you. After all, Samson carried the gate of the city on his shoulder even after spending night with an harlot.

��Anointing is just a seal, but you in which the seal is laid upon is the most important. You have have the right spirit within you as well. It is possible to still speak in tongues even when the Holy Spirit has departed.

��Being a miracle worker is not a license for heaven. After all, Lucifer has lost heaven, yet his power as in the beginning still remains with him , God chose not to take it back. Thereby he performs lieing wonders, yet that doesn't make him qualified for heaven.

��External manifestations of power is not equivalent to inward purity.

��Anointing without holiness is like a vehicle of power with no engine.

��Power without purity is like a well without water and cloud without rain.

I pray God will grant all of us the wisdom not to abandon the weightier matter, and be filled with the right spirit within, unto holiness and righteousness. Amen.

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Ogunlade Adekemi Boluwatife

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