Grieving the Holy Spirit
And do notgrieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day ofredemption. Eph4:30
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So Heturned Himself against them as an enemy, AndHe fought against them. Isa63:10
And the Lord was sorry that He had mademan on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. Gen6:6
The definition of ‘Grieve’ is to make someone sorrowful,mournful or brokenhearted by offense. Causing the Holy Spirit of God to grievecan result in His departure from your midst. The Holy Spirit was sent toconvict the world of sin, righteousness and Judgment, (Jh16:8) without HisDivine influence man is at the mercy of his own conscience. (Rom2:15) If that‘conscience’ is given over to self-indulgence and seeking the pleasures of lifeit will naturally ‘excuse’ wrong behavior as normal.
Woe to those who call evilgood, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Whoput bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isa5:20
Here we have a snap shot of the Church System. They have notonly ‘grieved’ the Holy Spirit to the end degree, they have also QUENCHED(or extinguished) His godly restraint to stay the hand of the evil doers. Hence‘insanity’ is out of control as the Prophet Isaiah has said, everything is inreverse! People walk after the imaginations of their own hearts. God isanything they want Him to be. No behavior is immoral and no one can Judge. The‘Man of Sin’ (2Thess2:3) is ‘MANKIND’ himself; Unleashed and fully lawless!
The comingof the lawless one is accordingto the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and withall unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receivethe love of the truth, that they might be saved. And forthis reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe thelie that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth buthad pleasure in unrighteousness. 2Thess2:9-12
It’s the Religious establishment churches that are underthis ‘Strong delusion’ spoken of by Paul. They teach the people that an‘anti-Christ’ person will show up soon, deceive the world (I suppose they meanthe world of unbelievers) and plunge mankind into the Great Tribulation. Mostof them however expect to be Raptured out before the real troubles begins. Butthe VERY reason the unwary masses fall for fairy tales like this, is the‘absence’ of the Holy Spirit. They actually assume He is present among them‘restraining’ the appearing of anti-Christ! When in reality the Religiousestablishment itself is the ANTI-CHRIST!
1Thess5:19 says: Do not quench the Spirit.Thismeans to ‘Suppress, Stifle, or quench’ as in putting out a fire. TheMark9:44-48 passage where Jesus describes Gehenna (the lake of fire, Rev21:8)uses this same word in that the ‘Fire is NEVER Quenched!’
When someone Grieves and finally Quenches the Holy Spiritthe decline in spirituality is rapid. I have seen people fall away and departfrom the faith (who previously demonstrated deeds worthy of salvation) and it’sas though the lights went out inside them. It’s a speedy decent into indifferentand frigidity. Just as a serious degenerative disease will quickly take a tollon bodily strength, so the departure of the Holy Spirit will reap its toll onthe human spirit.
Those alive to God can understand whyHeb6:1-6 says that’s its ‘Impossible’ to restore such a one torepentance. If indeed, as the passage says, they were genuinely enlightened,have tasted the heavenly gift and were partakers of the Holy Spirit, thelikelihood of restoration is a VERY slim possibility. As follows any significantrevival of Truth in the established Church is also ‘impossible’. Greek: ‘adynatos’: ‘Without strength,impotent, powerless, weakly, disabled, unable to be done.’
The Church System has conceptualizedmake-believe ‘Christianity’ in the world that is devoid of the Holy Spirit. Ithas all the trimmings of authenticity including a lifelike IMAGE of Christ! Butit’s a figment of man’s imagination and operates according to the sub standardsof humanity. Their entire foundation is built on resistance of the Holy Spirit.The stiff-necked are drawn in because the systematic structure caters to theirflesh…those whose ‘god is their belly and glory in their shame!’ (Phil3:19) Asmisery loves company so darkness invites evil. Without the blessed HolySpirit’s restraining powers the authoritative systems of earth are given overto Satan’s full control. Even among those to whom the Oracles of God wereentrusted in order to enlighten mankind to His Truth the spirit of error turnedthem into murderers!
You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart andears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers notpersecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, ofwhom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, who havereceived the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it Acts7:51-53
Hence we have the modern ReligiousSystem with a Substitute Gospel and ‘Surrogate’ Holy Spirit, who appears tothem in many forms suitable to their modes of worship. Described here: ‘For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselvesinto apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transformshimself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if hisministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose endwill be according to their works’ 2Cor11:13-15
But they think it’s the Real thing; Just as THEY are bonafide Christians! All part of the same collective System that has Suppressed theTruth since the days of ancient Rome, murdered the true Saints and bowed at thealtars of Satan. Completely VOID of the Holy Spirit to convict them of Sin,Righteousness and Judgment to Come.