3. Power

There is another thing God does (v. 13). He gives us of His Spirit, and that is power. The moment you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you cease to be a lost sinner; your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Look at Ephesians 1:13: "In whom, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise." In the Acts also:" While Peter spike these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word" (chap. 10:44). On whom? On believers. It is the sinner, who hears and who believes. He says, I need this salvation. His heart gets plowed up. I would like it, he says; I believe it; and God seals that one with the Holy Ghost. If I bought a flock of sheep at the fair, should I drive them home at once? No; I should put a mark on them—my mark—before driving them home. Do you know how God knows His sheep? They have all got the Holy Ghost, and the price He paid for them was the precious blood of Christ. The devil's children have their mark they are spotted with sin. God's children have a lovely mark.