Anointing Spirit VS Sealing Spirit VS Pledging Spirit

 

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
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

o   Starts with anointing: receiving God's elements

o   Proceeds to sealing: forming God's image

o   Advances to pledging: enjoying God's riches

2.      Complementary Relationship

o   Anointing enables believers to receive God's elements

o   Sealing forms these elements into God's image

o   Pledging enables believers to truly enjoy God's riches

3.      Integral Operation

o   All three aspects are different dimensions of the Spirit's work

o   Together they complete God's full salvation for believers

o   Work in coordination, inseparable from each other

4.      Ultimate Goal

o   Complete filling with God

o   Full expression of God's image

o   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