Honoring the Holy Spirit: Emotions, Words, and Relationships

The very idea if I could re reread this do not get the holy spirit's feelings hurt that right away tells us something about the holy spirit that he is not a ghost in the sense a spirit that doesn't have a personality in the sense of force in the sense of a dove in the sense of a wind or oil but he is a person that you can grieve but if you can make somebody hurt you can also make somebody happy right every married husband every married wife everyone who has parents if you can make somebody hurt you can also make somebody pleased you can also make somebody be very excited by certain things that you do the holy spirit is a Divine person who lives within us and we as Christians have the ability to have a relationship with him and we have the ability to cause him deep heartbreak. [00:01:12]

When you grieve the Holy Spirit you don't lose your salvation but you lose the joy of your salvation when you grieve the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit doesn't leave you he stays there the same way if you hurt your husband with your word or you hurt your wife with your word they don't divorce you they will still be in the same house with you probably sleep in the same bed but you will feel million miles away from them what does happen when we grieve the holy spirit is we lose a sense that we are pleasing to God we also Le lose peace we become quickly and very fast IR irritably we become irritated very quickly we lose sense of direction we lose sense of consolation from the Holy Spirit our whole inside world goes into a turmoil and it goes into a Chaos on the inside. [00:03:40]

As you grieve the Holy Spirit if you don't repent and you don't quickly fix that you're opening the door to the Demonic to come and take advantage of your vulnerable hurt brok look place that you are in with God and the demons smell and they are attracted to people that grieve the Holy Spirit I'm not saying you get a demon I'm saying you potentially can get a demon if you live in a state of the holy spirit being grieved by you this happens in relationship as well the Bible says do not let sun go down on our anger so we don't give place to the devil if you stay angry overnight you stay angry the second day you stay angry the third day you begin to develop thoughts in your mind about the person that you are angry. [00:05:17]

Living your life with ungrid holy spirit is the greatest guarantee you will not be demonically harassed living your life with the Holy Spirit is not grieved by you is the greatest protection that demons will not have access to you they will yell they will bark but they will not bite you because the holy spirit is pleased and he is your greatest defense mechanism when the Holy Spirit is not grieved what we experience is Clarity of thought what we experience is stillness and peace in the midst of the most chaotic most difficult and most challenging situations in our life when the Holy Spirit is not grieved we have access to Divine wisdom Divine strength and divine guidance. [00:06:35]

When we hold on to toxic emotions we grieve the Holy Spirit the Bible clearly states in here let all bitterness wrath anger clamor be put away from you talk toxic emotions are emotions I'll mention just three of them being holding a grudge having an offense and holding on to bitterness sometimes the closer you get to the Lord the more on fire you get the more prayer you start praying and the more you start purifying your life what I've noticed about these people myself included is we are prone we might not be prone to pornography might not be prone to smoking and drinking we might not be prone to stealing or robbing a bank but we get prone to these Petty sins called holding a grudge holding on to bitterness and staying offended. [00:13:15]

You cannot host the Holy Ghost and harbor a grudge you can have the Holy Spirit and harbor a grudge you can't host him you can have the Holy Spirit and hold on to an offense but you cannot host the Holy Spirit and hold on to an offense he's not hosted when when you host somebody you treat them with honor you treat them with respect they get attention from you when they come into your house they're hosted versus somebody who just sneaks in quietly into the into the room and just sits there the Holy Spirit wants to be hosted but he cannot be hosted properly if we Harbor things. [00:16:14]

The second area that Grieves the Holy Spirit most is what comes out of our mouth and there are three things that I'm going to highlight one is cursing the other one is lying and exaggerating and the third one is being wheel with your words that actually come out to be harsh cursing the Bible says when Peter denied Jesus he cursed and swore that was the state of somebody walking away from Jesus anybody who allows cursing to come out of their mouth is a person who already has something broken in the relationship with God now if you just became a Christian and you cursed like a sailor and honestly your English vocabulary was reduced to cuss words and you're learning kind of how to process that listen welcome to the journey of sanctification. [00:27:17]

The Bible says let no corrupt word proceed from your mouth but only that which edifies now we live in a Christian world today especially online there are people that are rising up who are influencing young people and influencing Christians who think cussing is cool some of them even call themselves cussing pastors their idea of Christian Liberty is this we don't want to be legalistic because these fundamentalists you know made us dress this way take our earrings and makeup and so they swing to the other side we're pretty much we be like the world we throw F bombs we we let all kinds of gutter language come out of our mouth because we're all about Christian Liberty and I call that greasy Grace that's not biblical definition. [00:25:33]

The Bible says we grieve the Holy Spirit when we are roote to people people it says in Ephesians 4:32 that kindness tender heartness and forgiveness should be our portion it says about Jesus that Matthew 3:16 in the net translation he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest upon him a dove and a lamb a dove is not a characteristic of the holy spirit it's a description of the Holy Spirit a lamb excuse me it's it's a characteristic of the Holy Spirit not a description so is the Lamb it's a characteristic of Jesus not a description of Jesus I heard this statement from somebody if you want the presence of the dove you have to have the nature of the Lamb. [00:39:33]

The reason why the Holy Spirit not only descended on Jesus but the Bible says he remained on Jesus is because Jesus's nature was not rude he didn't say come to me all you who heavy Len and and who are troubled I'll give you rest learn from me and you will see how Snappy impatience rude and harsh I am and you will find rest for your souls Jesus is not rude Jesus is not Snappy Jesus is not impulsive Jesus is not impatient Jesus is not harsh the scripture says broken bruised Reed he didn't break what does that mean mean somebody who's already bruised you mean those people they have a hard day and they vent to you they respond through their Brokenness by maybe being harsh and instead of coming back and breaking that and say this is what you did you're coming in understanding this person probably is hurting. [00:40:42]

The dove doesn't descend on a bull the dove will not descend on a goat the dove is not going to descend on some kind of wild crazy this is just a way I am this is just the way my personality well that personality needs to be transformed because for the Holy Spirit to remain in you there has to be inside of us a pursuit of kindness tender heartness and forgiveness humility not being hoty kind instead of being harsh being mean and being rude and sometimes the more successful we get especially those of us who grw up in a more of a dominant you know whether the being a man simply means being being mean and the idea of being Meek is being weak being Meek is not being weak it's being strong under control it's controlling your strength it's controlling your reactions it's controlling your harshness why is that because the holy spirit is deeply affected by how we treat people he loves people so much. [00:42:40]

When you take the highway instead of the shortcut what we begin to experience is peace and who gives this rest who gives this peace the holy spirit because he rests he can rest and when he rests we rest when he has a rest inside of my heart I'm at rest when he doesn't find rest in me because I am rude I am mean I'm Snappy I call people with names I cut Corners I always jab I punish people you do something wrong to me I won't respond to you I'll let you drink your own medicine and all of that stuff doesn't give him rest he doesn't like that he withdraws and when he withdraws his rest leaves with him and I lack rest I'm right but I can't sleep I'm right but I can't put the relationship together I'm educated but I don't have peace I have money but I don't have rest my mind is not clear though my brain IQ is high why because when the spirit withdraws he take all the kingdom all of the presence that he carries with him away and we are left with our human depravity we are left with our human weakness and we are left with high positions High ranks and all of that but inside is Catt are scratching our soul and we can't sleep we can't think there's no peace in here there's no peace in there. [00:45:57]