is the Seal equally visible in all truly saved people?
This time the answer is, unfortunately, no. The impression goes deeper into some people than others. Some are truly Christians yet carnal, saved by the skin of their teeth, saved yet so as by fire. The marks of the seal are not absent if they are truly Christ’s at all, but they may be only faintly imprinted or covered over by the accumulated grunge of neglect or sin. Why? There are many reasons. We get our eyes off the Lord; we lose our first love; we may never mature properly because of poor discipling, false teaching, or any number of factors. This means we must be slow to judge. But we must not forget, we must be very clear, that our confidence in the credibility of any person’s profession of faith (including our own!) is in direct proportion to the clear presence of the marks of the seal, which are the ones we have delineated and nothing less. What the world needs–what the Church needs–is a generation of Christians who understand that the official Seal of authentic Christianity i
