Grieving the Holy Spirit – A Serious Matter

The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More is the divine Person Who descended from heaven on the day of PentecostThis name (Greek) is used twice in the New Testament and means "the fiftieth day.” This refers to the 50th day after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This day... More after the Lord Jesus had accomplished the work of redemptionRedemption is part of God's plan of salvation. Redemption means that someone is freed from bondage. The redemption of Israel from the power of Pharaoh is an example of this.... More through His death on the cross and, having been raised from the dead by the glory of the Father ascended to heaven, and sat down at the right hand of His Father.

The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More is not just a sensation or a feeling or merely a power. He is, like the Father and the Son, a divine Person. He speaks, sends out laborers to proclaim the gospel (Acts 13:2, 4), and convicts the worldThe word is used with different meanings. It can mean the whole of humanity (Gen 41:57) or the created world (Rom 1:20), but also a moral system that is opposed... More of sinThe Bible carefully differentiates between sin and sins. • Sin: the evil power at work in man that causes him to engage in sinful activities (Rom 7:17, 18). God pronounced... More (John 16:8). He comforts and refreshes believers by taking from the things of ChristA title of the Lord Jesus, which is also used as an epithet; Messiah (Hebrew) and Christ (Greek) mean "anointed one". The title refers to the fact that Jesus is... More and giving them to them. He encourages and guides them (Jn. 16:13-15; Rom. 8:14).

But He is also grieved when the children of God do not walk in holiness since He is the Holy Spirit. He dwells in every true believer and takes note of every word we speak. He knows every thought that arises in us. He sees everything we do. That is why the apostle admonishes us: "And do not grieve the Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More of God."

This does not mean that the Holy Spirit will leave us if we sadly grieve Him, for He dwells in the believer forever, as the Lord Jesus said: "He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever" (John 14:16).

This is the blessed privilege of New Testament believers. David of old had to pray: "Do not take the spirit of your holinessIt generally denotes something separate from the ordinary or even evil. Holiness is, above all, an attribute of God; He is glorious in holiness, He sits on his throne of... More from me" (Ps 51:13). In the present dispensationA dispensation is a specific time of human history that has its own rules and in which God reveals Himself in a particular way. Seven different dispensations can be distinguished... More of graceTo the one who earns something through performance, the reward is not according to grace but according to debt (Rom. 4:4). Grace is a favor that is not given by... More. However, such a prayer is out of place, for the true Christian is sealed by the Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More of God for the day of redemptionRedemption is part of God's plan of salvation. Redemption means that someone is freed from bondage. The redemption of Israel from the power of Pharaoh is an example of this.... More.

The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More dwells in the true believer; He will never leave or forsake him, but He will be grieved if we do not walk in holinessIt generally denotes something separate from the ordinary or even evil. Holiness is, above all, an attribute of God; He is glorious in holiness, He sits on his throne of... More according to the word of God. This is also why so many have lost the joy and happiness flowing from the precious fellowship with the Lord.

When we walk in holiness and faithfulness to the Lord, the Holy Spirit fills our hearts with joy and takes from and gives to us what belongs to Christ. In the first chapter of Ephesians, the apostle said: "In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit is God, a divine person in the Trinity of God; in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit works, for example, in creation or on individuals. The Holy... More of promise, which is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemptionRedemption is part of God's plan of salvation. Redemption means that someone is freed from bondage. The redemption of Israel from the power of Pharaoh is an example of this.... More of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory" (Eph 1:13, 14). In chapter 4, the apostle returns to this blessed truth that we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit "for the day of redemptionRedemption is part of God's plan of salvation. Redemption means that someone is freed from bondage. The redemption of Israel from the power of Pharaoh is an example of this.... More."

Here, we are not talking about the redemption of the soul, the forgiveness of sins, as in chapter 1:7, but about the redemption of our body at the coming of the Lord Jesus to take His bride home: "Who shall transform our lowly body into conformity to His glorious body, according to the working of the power by which He is able to subdue all things" (Phil. 3:21). When the Lord Jesus comes, He will take every true believer with Him; not a single one will remain here. For every true Christian is a memberJust as the human body has different body parts that have different tasks but are all for the benefit of the body and are centrally controlled by the head, God... More of the one body, and it is utterly impossible that the body should be in glory and lack one of its members, even the weakest or least.