Bible Question:
When you greive the Holy Spirit does He retreat or does He go to a quiet place in your soul? He never leaves us or if you do blaspham the Holy Spirit then does He leave you? When you turn away from Holy Spirit and your heart becomes hardened then does He leave you? |
Bible Answer: Eph 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Grieve: 3076 lupeo (loo-peh'-o) from 3077; TDNT - 4:313,540; v AV - be sorrowful 6, grieve 6, make sorry 6, be sorry 3, sorrow 3, cause grief 1, be in heaviness 1; 26 1) to make sorrowful 2) to affect with sadness, cause grief, to throw into sorrow 3) to grieve, offend 4) to make one uneasy, cause him a scruple When we grieve the Holy Spirit by sinning, He is saddened, or offended. Sin in the believers life temporary removes the believer from fellowship with his Lord. Continual habitual sinning, also called willful sin,(Heb. 10:26) hardens the heart of the believer if persisted in. We need to confess our sins (1 John 1:9) 1 John 1:6 If we say that we have FELLOWSHIP with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have FELLOWSHIP one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John was written not to the unbeliever but to those who were already believers. The conditions for walking in the light, and having unbroken fellowship with Christ, is to confess any know sin in our lives, and then the blood of Jesus continually cleanses us from all sin. God bless |