20.What does the stamp of the Holy Spirit on us indicate?

That the Lord Jesus will return from Heaven and redeem (release from the enemy) us who have been stamped with the Holy Spirit, resulting in praise to God’s Glory.

In the present hour we possess the Holy Spirit as a firstfruit, a foretaste of the coming Kingdom of God as well as a guarantee of the redemption to come. Meanwhile we are carrying about a physical body that is full of sin and death.

At the coming of the Lord from Heaven the Holy Spirit will loose us from the bondages of our mortal, sin-prone body. Our body will be filled with the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. Then we will have been completely redeemed and set free in Christ.

The redemption of our mortal body is part of the inheritance that is to come to us in the Day of the Lord.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23).