THE GREAT DANGER OF GRIEVING THE HOLY SPIRIT? – 6/26/2022
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT?
Ephesians 4:30 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
– As a child of God it will not lead you into destruction, nor will you lose your salvation.
– The Holy Spirit will not be taken from you for the Spirit of God is given to us to abide with us forever.
– But what does happen is very terrible.
YOU WILL LOSE ALL SENSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT’S PRESENCE
He will be as one hidden from you—NO rays of comfort, NO words of peace, NO thoughts of love—there will be, “an aching void which the world can never fill.” Look at Saul!
GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND YOU WILL LOSE ALL CHRISTIAN JOY
The light will be taken from you, and you will stumble in darkness; those very means of grace which once were such a delight, shall have no music in your ear.
Your soul shall be no longer as a watered garden, but as a howling wilderness.
GRIEVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND YOU WILL LOSE ALL POWER
-If you pray, it will be a very weak prayer. When you read the Scriptures, it will not lift you up and will not be revealed to you.
– When you go up to the house of God, you will not feel his presence, you will have no peace but be weariness, you will walk and faint.
You will feel like SAMSON when his hair was lost, weak, captive, and blinded.
-Let the Holy Spirit depart, and assurance is gone, doubts filling your mind, questionings and suspicions are arising.
-“Do I love the Lord or no? Am I his, or am I not?”
GRIEVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND USEFULNESS WILL CEASE
When you speak to others and laboring for others it’s like sowing the wind. Let the Church grieve the Spirit…….
– And the church will fail to be a light and a blessing.
– No longer a light in darkness.
-Sinner will no longer see the light and live in total darkness;
– No sinners will be saved by her means;
– Darkness and death shall reign where all was joy and life.
Conclusion:
Church, may the Lord prevent us from grieving his Spirit as a Church, but may we be earnest, zealous, truthful, united, and holy, so that we may retain among us this heavenly guest who will leave us if we grieve him.
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