Originally Posted by
LoveGodForever
This scripture connects well with...
Acts 5
32, And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to them that obey him.
God's Spirit is HOLY and no one has God's Spirit if they are living in KNOWN UNREPENTANT Sin.
maybe the holy spirit comes and goes with every known sin
something doesn't quite sound right about that, though
if that's what you're saying
1 Timothy 3: 15. but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
God's Spirit is the Spirit of truth. He comes to ALL who will hear God's WORD.
To those who are
in SIN he comes to convict if SIN and truth. But not all will hear him and by rejecting God's Word we can grieve him so that you will no longer hear him.
To those who
BELIEVE and FOLLOW God's WORD he lives IN them and testifies of God's WORDS.
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There are of course conditions for receiving God's Spirit....
We must
BELIEVE and
FOLLOW God's WORD. What does God's Word say?
Act 2:38
Then Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 3:19
Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
Act 8:22
Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Act 17:30
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
Act 26:20
But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
1 John 1:9,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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We GRIEVE God's SPIRIT by
SIN (UNBELIEF and BREAKING GOD'S COMMANDMENTS)
Genesis 6
5, And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6, And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
GRIEVED HIM AT HIS HEART.
7, And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.
Eph 4:30
And
GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT of God, whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption.
Pslams 95
10, Forty years long was I
GRIEVED with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11, To whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Hebrews 3
10, Why I was
GRIEVED with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11, So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
17, BUT WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? WAS IT NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18, And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19, So we see that they could not enter in because of
UNBELIEF.
Psa 119:158
I BEHELD THE TRANSGRESSORS AND WAS
GRIEVED; because they kept not your word.
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KNOWN UNREPENTANT SIN will keep all those who CONTINUE in it OUT of God's KINGDOM.
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God's 4th commandment is one of the ten (Exodus 20:8-11) If we knowingly break it when God asks us not to we stand guilty before God of committing sin (James 2:8-12). If we do not seek him in repentance and forgiveness we are in danger of the Judgement (Hebrews 10:26-27)
Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of man that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus says that if we follow the traditions of man that break the commandments of God we are not following God (Matthew 15:3-9)
There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that God's 4th Commandment is now ABOLISHED and we are now commanded to KEEP Sunday as a Holy day.
Who should we follow the teachings and traditions of men or the Word of God? Who should we believe the Words of men or the Word of God?
In times of ignorance God winks at but now ,<when a KNOWLEDGE of the truth has come> calls all men everywhere to REPENT (FOLLOW) (Acts 17:30-31).