Ephesians 4:30
30 And [kai] grieve [lupeo] not [me] the holy [hagios] Spirit [pneuma] of God, [theos] whereby [en] [hos] ye are sealed [sphragizo]
unto [eis] the day [hemera] of redemption. [apolutrosis]KJV-Interlinear
30 And
do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of
redemption. NASB
The Holy Spirit is the
principle agent for helping you hear, see, learn, and apply spiritual phenomena
in your life.
When you suppress the
Holy Spirit, then your spiritual life is non-functional, or dysfunctional. In short, your spiritual life does not
function. The Holy Spirit is the agent
by which our spiritual life is powered and operates.
Now, just to make things
clear, you cannot see, feel, hear, taste, or smell the Holy Spirit. You cannot detect the Holy Spirit in any way
shape or form in this life.
Those organizations or
people who claim that they have the ghost or the spirit or try to impress with
various emotions or sounds or verbal activity or whatever, are frauds and evil
to the core.
To grieve, ‘lupeo,’ the Holy
Spirit means to put in distress, to sadden, to grieve, to make sorry.
This is an anthropopathism
whereby an attribute of humanity, is attributed to God in order to explain or
describe an action or emotion. God
cannot be grieved, but man can. So this term
is used to describe the affect that your dysfunctional spiritual life
ultimately has, not on God, but the affects that it has on your relationship
with God.
When a child grieves their
parent, the child is consistently doing something that brings grief into the
parents life.
Therefore, when we
consistently pursue sin, or the world, in effect, we bring grief to God. Grief is the opposite of something that we
can be honored with or proud of, and God is certainly not proud of the person
who is openly defiant toward God, toward truth, toward their spiritual life.
This is addressed to
believers, by the way, which only goes to prove that believers can sin. Surprise!
Surprise!
And when believers sin,
and keep on sinning, then they grieve the Holy Spirit, or bring shame, or bring
dishonor to themselves and disrespect to God, in other words.
Sin, remember is not
limited to crime, or socially unacceptable activities. Sin also includes indifference toward Gods
mandates, refusal to study, refusal to learn, refusal or indifference or simply
having your own attitude and definition of your spiritual life. One of the greater committed sins in this
world by believers, is their rejection of Gods plan and process for growing and
functioning in their spiritual life.
The repercussions of that
indifference or apathy, or attitude, result not in blessing but in discipline. And when God disciplines, life is not fun,
but grief for you. So you in effect become
yourself that which you do to God
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