Bret continues our series on the Holy Spirit. Paul describes the Holy Spirit in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 as a deposit, a "promise"...

Paul is writing to restore his relationship to the Corinthians. Paul is not wealthy, apparently not a great public speaker, doesn’t come with all the thrills, so the Corinthians are discrediting his message based on these superficial things. Paul believed that failure to achieve this reconciliation would endanger the very Christian identity of the Corinthian church. What the church in Corinth has begun to see as weakness is what Paul views as his strength in Christ.

So Paul makes this bold yet concise statement in the 1st chapter:

Christ set his SEAL of ownership on us, put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit... a promise!