To damping the Holy Ghost is an act of disobedient to the
Lord.
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not
the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
I Corinthians 6:19,20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price:
therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless:
I will come to you.
Ezekiel
36:26,27 A new
heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will
take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of
flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and
do them
And
so the Lord Jesus says in John 14:16: 'I will pray the Father, and he will give
you another Comforter, that he may be abide with you forever, even the spirit
of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
And in
like manner we find God saying in Leviticus 26:12: 'I will walk among you and I
will be your God, and ye shall be my people.' And again, he says, 'This is my
rest, here will I stay, for I have desired it' (Psalm 132:14).
Ephesians 1:13,14
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word
of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye
were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 14
Which is the
earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession,
unto the praise of his glory.
The promise of
the Holy Ghost
John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me:
Romans 8:23 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.
Jesus was the first fruit for the
world
I Corinthians 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
The world cannot receive him....neither know
him.' (John 14:17). How do you feel at the question? What! do you think it
foolishness? 'The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them: for they are
spiritually discerned'
I Corinthians 2:12-16 Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with
spiritual.14 But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth
all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But
we have the mind of Christ.
Consider
how, in grieving the Holy Spirit, you have lost your peace with God.
I have often told you that you cannot live in sin, and retain peace. 'There is
no peace, saith my God, to the wicked' (Isaiah
57:21). You have a guilty conscience; and a guilty conscience cannot come
into his presence. Return sinner!
1.
You
will go deeper into sin.
'Without me ye can do nothing' (John 15:5); you cannot resist self - you cannot
overcome sin. O holy quenchers of the Spirit! where is this to end you? The
Holy Spirit ebbs out of your heart and leaves you like a stranded vessel, dry
upon land. Return!
2.
I would say to
those who are receiving the refreshing gales of the Spirit, grieve him not;
walk softly with this friend. When he draws, run after him. Above all, follow
his warnings. When he says, Do not go with this companion, go not with him.
When he says, Go not into that path, go not. 'Thou shalt hear a voice behind
thee saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left.' Happy souls that grieve not the Holy Spirit.
Soon he shall fill that soul, and leave nothing in it but himself. Soon we
shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Amen.
Pastor Rolando Ramos
Have a God Blessed day in the Lord
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