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To all on this Catholic caucus thread I would offer that we ought not use Paul's letters in such a selective way that perhaps it is not yet clear that he taught Salvation is by Grace, not works at any stage.

God seals the spirit of any boy, girl, man, or woman with His Holy Spirit when their soul responds to the simple Gospel Truth that Jesus is The Savior and He died and God raised Him from the Dead to show He has paid the price and it is sufficient for all the sins of any human being and all human beings who will just bow their will and say thank you Lord for being my Savior. We have Scriptural evidence that this Grace is applied immediately, that this 'transaction' happens immediately, this Grace is sealed upon the human soul/spirit.

Peter's preaching at Pentecost in Jerusalem following The Lords Ascension, and his sermon scene at the house of Cornelius registers the truth of it, that Salvation is immediate and by God's Grace. Those pricked in their hearts by the preaching were immediately Saved and sealed by His Spirit, God's Holy Spirit. When Jesus spoke to Saul on the road to Damascus, the very pricks which resonated at Pentecost and in the home of Cornelius resonated in Saul and he believed the Gospel and God's Spirit responded accordingly, immediately.

When Scripture says 'added to the church' they are not referring to some institution, some quixotic spiritual YoYo imagined by men. This Ekklesia is a clear picture of the spiritual Church which Christ spoke of in Matthew 16:18. This Church is composed of ALL who faithe (an action word) in the finished work (not nearly finished and in need of all that you can do to keep it secure) of The Lamb Slain from the foundation of the world. There is no man except Jesus Who can place God's Holy Spirit seal upon your soul, and He does it according to His Grace the hour you first believe, when you faithe in His FINISHED work.

To THAT Church I am bound and give utterance and testify for daily. I am a witness of His power to Save to the uttermost, for I am in His hands, no longer belonging to the Adamic world of sin and death. BUT I retain, in His mercy, the body which is tied to sin and death. In a daily walk I submit that spiritually diseased body to His Salvic sanctification. I am already Justified by His Death and Resurrection, sealed by His Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption in which He will come to take His possession away with Him to the 'There' Jesus referred to in John 14:1-3 :

1“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also."

Once sealed by His Holy Spirit, there is no man nor any thing which can take me out of His hands. I have His seal upon my spirit and no man (which includes me in the 'no man') can take me from Him. THAT is the Gospel, that He immediately comes to the broken and contrite spirit and places His seal upon that spirit when that soul calls upon Jesus as Savior. THAT IS The Grace of God in Christ. THAT is the Gospel for this Church Age, for the ones to be added to His ekklesia.

There is no thing in earth, heaven, nor hell which can break and unseal that spirit sealed By His Holy Spirit. There is no falling from salvation, only falling from a close sanctifyi8ng relationship. Of such an one Paul writes the fire at the Bema seat will burn away the dross yet the man will be saved. Why? Because the one placing the Seal upon that soul cannot be defeated, for 'Τετέλεσται'. There is therefore no man or institution which could restore His seal if it were possible to break it by my stumbling.

Romans 7:21 - 8:4
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 2For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful natured a slave to the law of sin.
(8:1-4) Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.