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Message 14 - 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5:19 – Do Not Quench The Holy Spirit; Do Not Grieve Him Series
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jan 5, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: This important message is a fundamental teaching about the Holy Spirit. We will examine the work of the Spirit in a believer’s life, and look at ways we can quench the work of the Spirit within. We look at a number of ways we can grieve the Spirit God gave us.
PURPOSE 13 – The Holy Spirit indwells us as a temple of God. {{1Corinthians 3:16 “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own 1Cor 6:20 for you have been bought with a price? Therefore glorify God in your body.”}} The Spirit of holiness indwells us. The purpose is to sanctify us, to make us more holy and like our Lord. How many of us have dirty temples?
PURPOSE 14 – The Holy Spirit baptises all Christians into one Body. {{1Corinthians 12:12 “Even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ, 1Cor 12:13 for by one Spirit we were all baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”}} The purpose of the Spirit is to unify the Body of Christ, His universal Church. Irrespective of our ethnic position or social standing, the baptism of the Spirit is God’s method to unite all believers into one holy Body, making us members one of another.
PURPOSE 15 – The Holy Spirit has sealed every believer for the Rapture and realisation of the Lord’s presence, and He can be grieved. {{Ephesians 4:30 “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”}} We have the Spirit’s seal on us; indeed, in us, and are secured by Him as the redeemed of God. He will keep us until we are in the very presence of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. {{Ephesians 1:13 – (ESV) “In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.”}} The Holy Spirit is actually the Seal which (whom) God has given to us. We must not grieve the Indwelling Spirit in us.
PART 3. THE SUMMARY OF OUR STANDING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
The list above is not a full list but I hope you have been able to see the operation of the Holy Spirit in your life, or more to the point, what the Holy Spirit wants to do with your lives. I will now list a summary of some of the points we have just made. Keep in mind the key verse for today, “Do not quench the Spirit.”
[1]. The Holy Spirit requires truth. The Spirit of truth wants us to be walking in His way.
[2]. He wants us to live in the fullness of spiritual life.
[3]. He is the inner well but it must be spiritually clean or no rivers of life will flow.
[4]. He is our Teacher and Instructor in the things of God.
[5]. The Holy Spirit wants to glorify Christ in us, and through us.
[6]. He requires our minds to be set on the Spirit so we live in the peace of God, and in the fullness of life.
[7]. He is our Communicator, bearing witness of the Lord, so that we might glorify Christ.
[8]. He indwells us as His temple, and abides in us from the time of salvation until resurrection.
[9]. His work is one of unity, with the Father, and with all fellow believers, as He has baptised us into the One Body.
