Eph 4:30 (KJV) ‘And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.’

Of recent, I’ve been studying the works of great Puritan authors such as AW Tozer, AW Pink, Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Watson, and it’s actually given me a kind of rethink and perspective about how we preach about Sin and Grace in the Church.

You see, while trying to avoid the snares of legalism, one can end up falling into the pit of Abused-Grace doctrines.

I see believers, who in the name of preaching Grace say,
“Your sin doesn’t matter to God anymore. He doesn’t care about it”
“When you sin, instead of confessing your sin, confess your righteousness”.

These things are false!
Sin might not separate you from the love of God but sin will definitely separate you from fellowship with God.

And I’m not just talking about unintentionally making a mistake, I’m talking about intentionally living your life as you please, without the restraints of the Gospel and the Scriptures.

Sin is a pollutant of the spirit.
A believer living in sin is like mud being poured into clean water, such Believer will have a polluted and darkened spirit, and he’ll lose the fragrance of God’s Presence in his spirit.

Paul wasn’t exaggerating when he said we FLEE FROM ALL APPEARANCES OF SIN

Don’t try to negotiate your way out of it.
Don’t try to pervert scriptures to justify it.

FLEE FROM IT!

A believer who comfortably lives in sin is just like an angel who prefers the Darkness of hell to the pleasures of Heaven.

I’ve never seen a place in the Bible in which masturbation was outrightly condemned, neither have I seen a true believer who masturbated and was happy.

It has a way of bringing your spirit under condemnation and accusation or the enemy, and nothing weakens ones spiritual senses like condemnation especially when it arises from a sin you committed.

It is even more wrong to assume that God understands why you’re sinning.

What is there to understand in why one who professes love for God will do the things God hates?

What is there to understand in why one who professes Christ as His Savior, still refuses to accept Christ as His Lord?

What should be understood to excuse a child going to mess Himself up with mud, just after his father gave him a whole bath?

Stop tolerating sin!

It Grieves the Holy Spirit!

Many of us have grieved the Spirit, but because we’re so used to sin and we barely commune with our hearts, we do not even know that He has been grieved.

Such a person will become like Samson, who quenched the Spirit at the laps of Delilah.

When the Philistines arose against him, he woke up, and shook his body and probably said, ‘I will arise and fight against them’, but he didn’t know that the Spirit had left Him.

Many Christians are slowly losing the Influences of the Holy Spirit.

They still feel goosebumps during worship. They still smile in church, but they’ve lost fellowship with God

The flow is no longer there, because they’ve grieved the Holy Spirit.

Grieving the Holy Spirit doesn’t mean He’s a weak, petty, emotional being as many people present Him these days.


No!

Grieving the Spirit is much deeper than that!

It’s like looking at your Father and spitting at his face.

It’s like rebelling against your mother, (we’re told in Proverbs that a rebellious son is the grief of his mother).

My dear reader, I beseech you to chose the path of Consecration and Holiness.

True Holiness isn’t Legalistic.
True Holiness is divine.

The believer who lives in Holiness has a soul that glitters like the stars and radiates like the sun.

Holiness is the glory and beauty of our souls.

Finally, I beseech you once again, that you flee ALL APPEARANCES OF EVIL.

Do a heart check today and ask God to reveal to you, those bessetting sins that have been weighing your spirit down.

For some, it is Malice.

Malice..

Unforgiveness…..

A believer living in malice is like a bag, full of stones and hard rocks that keeps it one place and prevents it from being moved and directed by the influences of the east wind.

Let go….

Learning how to forgive was a difficult task for me, but I spoke to my soul, and I told myself I would let go, I would forgive.

If I still keep in mind the number of times I’ve been mocked and betrayed and insulted by even those I called my own, then I wouldn’t be here today.

For the sake of your fellowship with God, let go of the hurt and the malice.

Lay aside all bessetting and entangling sin that ye may run and finish this race with a prize with a prize.

Shalom!