Title: Spirit's Assurance (5)
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:13-14
Good Housekeeping magazine was founded in 1885 whose goal was the creation of "perfection . . . in the household." It offers advice about housekeeping and advertises products to help housewives run their homes.
Good Housekeeping was part of a wave of women's magazines that emerged in the early twentieth century to glorify housework and to encourage women to stay in the home instead if going to work in factories. The makers of new "labor saving" devices such as the electric iron invented in 1914 and the vacuum cleaner invented in 1917 needed somewhere to advertise their products. The magazine served the dual purpose of instructing women about housework and turning them into consumers who would buy these new products.
In 1900, the Good Housekeeping Institute was founded to evaluate household products. Only products that passed the Institute's tests could be advertised in the magazine. In 1909, Good Housekeeping introduced its famous "Seal of Approval," which guaranteed that if any product bearing the seal proved to be defective within two years of purchase, Good Housekeeping itself would refund the money to the consumer because they guaranteed the product to work.
Sometimes Christians ask: "How do I know I am saved?"
"Am I saved even if I don't feel like I am saved?"
"How do I know that my salvation is permanent?"
These are valid questions because so much of life is about how we feel about our self and what is happening in our world. When we talk about salvation it is not about how you feel, it is about what God has already done for you.
God has a seal which guarantees that our salvation is real and will last forever. The Holy Spirit is our seal of approval that when we trusted Christ for salvation that it will last forever.
SEALED INWARDLY :13
Word of truth - here is the good news of salvation in Christ.
Your salvation - it ...
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:13-14
Good Housekeeping magazine was founded in 1885 whose goal was the creation of "perfection . . . in the household." It offers advice about housekeeping and advertises products to help housewives run their homes.
Good Housekeeping was part of a wave of women's magazines that emerged in the early twentieth century to glorify housework and to encourage women to stay in the home instead if going to work in factories. The makers of new "labor saving" devices such as the electric iron invented in 1914 and the vacuum cleaner invented in 1917 needed somewhere to advertise their products. The magazine served the dual purpose of instructing women about housework and turning them into consumers who would buy these new products.
In 1900, the Good Housekeeping Institute was founded to evaluate household products. Only products that passed the Institute's tests could be advertised in the magazine. In 1909, Good Housekeeping introduced its famous "Seal of Approval," which guaranteed that if any product bearing the seal proved to be defective within two years of purchase, Good Housekeeping itself would refund the money to the consumer because they guaranteed the product to work.
Sometimes Christians ask: "How do I know I am saved?"
"Am I saved even if I don't feel like I am saved?"
"How do I know that my salvation is permanent?"
These are valid questions because so much of life is about how we feel about our self and what is happening in our world. When we talk about salvation it is not about how you feel, it is about what God has already done for you.
God has a seal which guarantees that our salvation is real and will last forever. The Holy Spirit is our seal of approval that when we trusted Christ for salvation that it will last forever.
SEALED INWARDLY :13
Word of truth - here is the good news of salvation in Christ.
Your salvation - it ...
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