And to reject that Holy Spirit is to take on the mark of the beast

"So you’re a slave, you’re marked. And the Bible said, in the last days  there would be two marks, and every person on the earth would have one or the other. You just can’t get out of it. One’s the mark of the beast; the other one was a seal of God. And the seal of God is the Holy Spirit, God’s provided way for His church. Ephesians 4:30 said, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you’re sealed unto the day of your redemption.” And to reject that Holy Spirit is to take on the mark of the beast. All that didn’t have the mark of God had the mark of the devil. So, you’re marked! You’re either marked a bond slave in the love of God, or you’re marked a slave to the things of the world of the devil. 

That’s hard. But we are slaves, and we want to serve Him all the days of our life. A slave is a servant. In order to be a servant of Jesus Christ, you have to be a slave to yourself, to crucify. Oh, God, let it sink in! Crucify yourself, and your flesh, and your desires, that God might take hold in your heart to move you and motivate you. That’s the slave of Christ, the “bond slave,” Paul called it. He said he was a slave to the Lord Jesus, a bond slave in service for the Lord Jesus, going about daily crucifying the flesh, to be a slave for Jesus Christ---rejoicing because he was a slave. That’s it. 

We try to stand by the church. “The church, the church,” that’s all you hear. “The church.” There’s only one church, and that church, you don’t join it. It has no creeds. You’re born into that church by the Holy Spirit. Your birth brings you into that church, into the fellowship of that church. So, in this we become slaves to Christ" 

WMB ~ ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES