COMMENTS
The seal or mark of the true disciple is the possession of the Spirit of Christ. The manifestations of this holy Spirit are threefold: (1) love supreme to God and joyful loyalty to His cause even at the cost of suffering; (2) love for the brethren—unselfish, noble, pure—a desire for their welfare, which is always alert to do them good; (3) love, sympathetic, for the world, prompting to good works, as opportunity may afford, and to a desire and effort always to live peaceably with all men.
God's people are continually being adjusted to one another by God as disciples of Jesus. He, also, by the anointing continually developed the members of Christ's Body, strengthening them in their places in that Body. He, likewise, worked in them the seal of the Spirit by bringing their hearts into a sympathetic oneness and co-operation with Him in all His arrangements.
Rom. 16:25; Col. 2:7; 1 Pet. 5:10; Acts 10:38; Matt. 3:16, 17; 1 John 2:20, 27; 1 Cor. 12:12, 13; Gal. 2:20; 3:16, 29; Eph. 4:13; 2 Cor. 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14; 4:30; Rom. 8:9, 14-16; 5:5; 2 Tim. 2:19.
