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Jan 27, 2024 · Have you grieved the Holy Spirit? What does grieving the Holy Spirit mean? In this video, Pastor Nelson answers your question: What does it mean to grieve th...
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Jan 29, 2024 · The Holy Spirit desires to express Himself in our actions and attitudes. When we do not allow God’s Spirit to be seen in our behavior, when we do what we know is wrong, we suppress or quench the Spirit. We do not allow the Spirit to reveal Himself as He wants to, with “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness ...
Apr 20, 2023 · Ephesians 4:30 is an interesting verse. Paul mentions the Holy Spirit and urges us not to grieve Him. Who is the Holy Spirit, and how do we grieve Him? In th...
Dec 4, 2023 · The Bible is the Spirit’s book. To insist on exegetical precision, theological rigor, and careful attention to the word of God should never be denigrated as stuffing our heads full of knowledge, let alone as somehow opposed to the real work of the Spirit. Third, we grieve the Holy Spirit when we suggest he is jealous of our focus on Christ.
- What Can We Learn About Ephesians 4:30 from Different Translations?
- Who Is The Holy Spirit?
- Context of Ephesians 4:30
- Don’T Forget Isaiah 63:10
- What Do Commentaries Say About “Do Not Grieve The Holy Spirit”?
- The Implications For Us of Grieving The Holy Spirit
Often, when trying to understand what God is saying in a verse, it’s nice to look at several Bible translations to get a feel for how different scholars have looked at key words. You don’t need a degree in biblical languages to understand the key words of Scripture. The people who have translated and paraphrased the Bible have extensive experience ...
You may think a deep dive into the Holy Spirit is a bit of an overkill for studying the phrase “grieving the Holy Spirit.” Don’t we know enough about the Holy Spirit already? Maybe. But if you’re anything like me, the Holy Spirit has been a mysterious being for much of my life. I grew up Baptist. Some faith traditions emphasize the work of the Holy...
Of course, context is always the key that unlocks the great mysteries of any biblical text. That’s true with the concept of grieving the Holy Spirit as well. Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus is one of his most influential in the New Testament, as it describes many of the basic tenets of the Christian faith. Paul was confronting some of the im...
There’s more than one place in the Bible where we’re told that the Holy Spirit grieves. In Isaiah 63, the prophet is reminding God’s people of his faithfulness. He describes God’s redemptive work to bring Israel—the children he had promised Abraham—out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. But Isaiah 63:10says that despite God’s graciousness toward ...
Putting all of this together, it’s clear that Paul is telling us that the Holy Spirit is a personal being who has feelings about our actions—and it saddens him (or “offends the Spirit,” as the Amplified Version says) when we respond to others in bitter ways. It’s always good to hold off looking at others’ interpretation of a text until we’ve wrestl...
If you’ve stuck with this article up until now, you might be wondering, “So what?” Honest question. Easy answer. It’s really important. Really. What grieves the Holy Spirit needs to grieve us.God wants the best for us. He sent us the Holy Spirit to help us walk with him daily. When we break that fellowship, God isn’t an emotionless bystander. Our s...
Nov 18, 2021 · This is why the Scripture says he is jealous over us (Nahum 1:2). He doesn’t want the enemy of our souls to get his talons into us with deception and evil works.</p><p>We know we are forgiven by ...
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The grieving of the Holy Spirit is felt in us when we stumble, and acts as a warning to us to stop our faulty behavior. If we don't act on the grieving, the Holy Spirit leaves us and evil spirits attach themselves to our conscience instead, leading us into the next stage; the blasphemy stage.
