Ephesians 4:30

“And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption”.

“Grieve not: “Don't cause the Holy Spirit sorrow” (Tay). If the Holy Spirit can be grieved, then obviously the Spirit is. "personal" being and not some impersonal force (Acts 5:1; Isaiah 2:10). “Since He is the ‘Holy Spirit', He is always grieved by unholiness, and since He is the ‘one Spirit' (Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 4:4), disunity will also cause Him grief. In fact, anything incompatible with the purity and unity of the church is incompatible with His own nature and therefore hurts Him. One might add that because He is also the ‘Spirit of truth', through whom God has spoken, He is upset by all our misuse of speech” (Stott p. 189). “Conversation (or any other activity) that endangers the unity of the body of Christ ‘grieves' the Holy Spirit” (Bruce p. 363). “Cease grieving or do not have the habit of grieving” (Robertson p. 541). We get so easily caught up in all the wrongs and injustices that have been committed against us that we forget that the most wrongs, insults and injustices have been committed against God! Stop feeling sorry for yourself and realize how much abuse God has endured and yet still is giving mankind the opportunity to repent (2 Peter 3:9). God is not. cold or insensitive being, rather God is hurt by our unfaithfulness (Genesis 6:5). “In whom ye were sealed”: “The personal pledge” (Phi). “The seal with which you were marked” (NEB). The term sealed means to stamp for security or preservation.

This "sealing" doesn't remove my freewill, and neither does it mean that. can never fall away (Ephesians 5:3-6). “Specifically the Holy Spirit, delivered the written word to us by inspiration (Ephesians 3:3-5) and it is one of the greatest blessings ever given to man. Our disregard for decency as indicated in our speech and our rebellion as shown in refusal to heed the divine message are. weariness and trial to the one who delivered that message. We have been sealed or marked by the words and promises spoken by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. They are true. When they are appropriated to my life, they mark me as belonging to God” (Caldwell pp. 221-222). See Romans 8:16. “The Holy Spirit is. sensitive Spirit. He hates sin, discord and falsehood. Therefore if we wish to avoid hurting Him, we shall shrink from them too. Every believer desires to bring Him pleasure, not pain” (Stott p. 189).

“Unto the day of redemption”: This is the day of final redemption, when our physical bodies will be redeemed from the grave (Romans 8:23). Since this "sealing" is available to the actual Second Coming of Christ, this means that the message the Spirit delivered will always exist in. pure and uncorrupted form. Believers of all generations will be able to accurately tell if they are "marked" as. real Christian or not, that being, does their life harmonize with the teachings of the one Spirit?