Quench NOT the Holy Spirit

Quench not the Spirit.

1Th 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.

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

Psa 51:11  Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Isa 63:10  But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Act 7:51  Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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The Holy Spirit is NOT forced upon us.

We are sealed by the Holy Spirit.

We can get rid of the Holy Spirit, we can grieve the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit can be taken from us. These are FACTS, these are TRUTHS.

We NEED the Holy Spirit! And we need to keep the Holy Spirit!

We need to comprehend HOW we can quench the Spirit and seek NOT to do so.  We have to learn how to NOT resist the Holy Spirit. We need to understand how we can stay in God's presence.  By the grace of God we need this!

The Holy Spirit is a GOD. 

Just as the FATHER is a GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT is a GOD, as JESUS CHRIST is a GOD. They all AGREE as one. Their purpose is the SAME. They are all LOVE.

The Holy Spirit is LOVE.

Some believe the Holy Spirit is a LESSER GOD, but this isn't true at all.

God, the Holy Spirit will seal us, will comfort us, will teach us, will help us, will bring all things to our remembrance, gift us with His gifts, and the Holy Spirit will leave us if we do NOT seek Him, if we do not truly want Him, if we resist Him, if we QUENCH Him.

Please God, help us learn MORE of the HOLY SPIRIT, please God the Spirit teach us!

All through the grace and mercy of YOUR Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD, our SAVIOR.

Amen.

The LORD will direct our patient waiting for Christ!

2Th 3:3  But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

2Th 3:4  And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

2Th 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

The LORD IS FAITHFUL.

The LORD will KEEP us from EVIL.

The LORD will DIRECT our hearts INTO the LOVE of GOD.

The LORD will direct our PATIENT waiting for Christ.

The LORD is faithful! It is the LORD'S faithfulness that matters, believing in the LORD'S faithfulness towards us. We need to believe.

Mar 9:23  Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Mar 9:24  And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

If we can believe, if we can have faith in the faithfulness of our Lord, trust in HIM- it's not about TRUSTING and having FAITH in ourselves!  Satan wants us to believe we have to do this, that it is our FAITH that saves us but in truth it is CHRIST'S FAITH. It can't be ours because then we would be saving ourselves.

Christ will SAVE us from ourselves!

Christ will HELP our unbelief with HIS belief, His power, His truth!

Christ has the faith to save me, I have nothing that will save me.  I believe I cannot save myself and am in need of being saved.

This is truth, this is FACT, this is undisputable.

When we deny truth and would rather believe a lie, we deny our Savior and cannot be saved.

The LORD is FAITHFUL!

The LORD will DIRECT US, OUR HEARTS into the LOVE OF GOD.

The LORD will direct our PATIENT WAITING for CHRIST.

We must have patience- knowing we have to wait for CHRIST, wait for ETERNAL LIFE in CHRIST. 

We live in a world filled with opposition - blatant, hidden, opposition that will fight against the truth so much so that this will happen--

Mat 24:22  And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

If the days of mankind's existence upon this earth in the sinful state it is in, is not cut short NO ONE WOULD BE SAVED! 

So while some strive for world peace, the truth is told to us, any worldwide peace that should appear would only be made on lies. This isn't to say we are to oppose peace, it's to comprehend that without Christ, without sin being wiped out by our Savior there can be NO TRUE peace. Mankind cannot manufacture peace, true peace that is found only IN CHRIST. 

May we be found in TRUTH, may the LORD direct us in all our ways towards HIM and HIS LOVE always!

Amen!

Soldiers

Conscious choice daily from the heart- choosing to BELIEVE.  Choosing to believe in a living GOD, to believe in a SAVIOR-Jesus Christ, to believe in the HOLY SPIRIT, to believe that we belong to all three of them.  Choosing to believe the Holy Spirit will live in us opening our hearts and understanding to the love of our Savior Jesus Christ.  The SPIRIT with our spirit.  With our minds - our spirit

Rom_7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Law of flesh- the carnal nature.  Law of our minds- the conscious choice, the believe, the hope, the faith needed.

The law of the flesh will WAR against the law of our minds.

The law of the flesh will try desperately to bring our MINDS captive to our sins, so we have NO hope, NO faith, NO belief.  We talked about MORTIFYING the deeds of our flesh, doing ALL within our limited ability to rid ourselves of sin, and allowing our minds to comprehend that Christ alone can fully and wholly rid of us sin. Christ alone is righteousness, and He will clothe us with HIS righteousness, not with righteousness of our own.  We must desire to serve the LORD with all we are, thanking GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST that He will do all we cannot do.

Rom_7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Rom_8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

CHOOSING the SPIRIT.

Rom_8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

If we choose to live embracing our carnal natures, nurturing our carnal minds we are choosing to forsake God. If we tell ourselves that we are weak and will always be weak, that we sin and will always sin, that we are LOST to our flesh nature, our carnal nature then we are choosing to serve self over God. YES, we are WEAK- our strength is CHRIST. YES, we are sinners- our SINLESS SAVIOR saves us from sin! YES, we have a flesh nature that will WAR with our spirit, and we must choose the spirit over flesh!

1Pe_1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ

We MUST GIRD UP our minds!

We MUST HOPE to the end!

We MUST HOPE for GRACE, the GRACE of our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

WAR!

FIGHT!

Don't give in to sin, ANY SIN!  Don't ACCEPT any sin you are prone to as being okay! Do NOT call sin, good! Do NOT excuse away any sin, not a single one!  If you are being pricked in your conscience that something you are doing, thinking, is sin then seek forgiveness! Go to WAR against the sin that so easily besets you! We ALL have to do this, there isn't a single human being who doesn't have to WAR if they would be Jesus Christ's!

To be Christ's means you have become a SOLDIER in the battle between good and evil! What kind of soldier you'll be is truly up to you and the choices you make- choosing to BELIEVE in the GIFT of SALVATION, choosing to BELIEVE in our HOPE JESUS CHRIST always! Choosing to WAR against the carnal nature, against sin in ourselves! Choosing to REVEAL CHRIST to all you are called to reveal Him to.

Soldiers of Faith in Jesus Christ!

All by HIS GRACE and MERCY forever and ever!

AMEN!

Are we ashamed of anything, any longer?

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

What deeds of our body are we to mortify?

Rom 6:21  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

In this day and age we've become immune to feeling shame.  We've called so much evil - good, that to find shame in that evil seems almost impossible any longer.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

What shame is there any longer in those who are adulterers, fornicators?  We glorify both of these. Uncleanness, lasciviousness, again, we glorify these works of the flesh. Idolatry, witchcraft do we even believe in these things any longer, does anyone? We should. Hatred- we pick CAUSES so we can utilize our hate. Emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings-   maybe, just maybe we still turn our nose up at murder, but not always.  We don't believe in our flesh being in need of mortifying do we?

Through the Spirit we MUST mortify the DEEDS of the body.

Through the Spirit.

Please Holy Spirit, please teach us, help us to mortify the deeds of our body- we want to live for our Savior, we do NOT want to die eternally having lived to our flesh.  Our flesh will destroy us, please be greater in us than the evil that would destroy us, greater than our overwhelming flesh nature that we would allow to destroy ourselves. Please save us from ourselves! Please, we are HELPLESS without You, completely helpless.

Please.

In the name of Jesus Christ our Savior, save us from ourselves!

All in YOUR love, help us to mortify the deeds that would separate us from You. Help us to feel ashamed of anything that would keep us from You and in that shame help us mortify those deeds THROUGH the Holy Spirit and only through the Holy Spirit!

All in YOU, all by YOU now and forever, AMEN!

Please...

A spirit of bondage- brings fear.

A Spirit of adoption- brings love.

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God

The Spirit bears witness with our Spirit.

1Co 12:13  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

One Spirit.

Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Sealed with that HOLY SPIRIT of PROMISE.

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Eze 36:25  Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Eze 36:27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Act 2:38  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

1Pe 3:21  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

                                    

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He never complained as He was led to be slaughtered

Luk_24:27  And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Luk_24:32  And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Luk_24:45  Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures

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Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

In the beginning there was the PROMISE of salvation!

There would be salvation from satan's rule.

Gen 49:10  The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

TRUTH.

Isa 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

TRUTH.

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors

Our Savior opened the eyes of those who sought truth. Our Savior opened their understanding so they would see the truth in His life, death, and resurrection.

We need OUR understanding opened.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

OUR transgressions!

HIS stripes!

WE'VE gone astray!

OUR iniquity was laid upon HIM.

He never complained as He was led to be slaughtered.

This is what He told those who listened after His resurrection- He wanted them to KNOW His life was predicted! He wanted them to know that He was the Messiah, THEIR SAVIOR. He WAS and IS TRUTH!

Truth from old prophecies written LONG before He was born, LONG before He took on flesh.  Our Savior did NOT do away with the Old Testament, He REVEALED the truth within!  We cannot trash the Old Testament believing all we need is the New.  We have to comprehend the truth from the very BEGINNING to the very END.

All by the grace and mercy, the LOVE of our SAVIOR, Jesus Christ! Now and forever, amen!

Did they know the prophecy?

Mat 26:54  But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Mat 26:55  In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mat 26:56  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled

Psa 22:1  To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Psa 22:2  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Psa 22:3  But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Psa 22:4  Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psa 22:5  They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Psa 22:6  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Psa 22:7  All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Psa 22:8  He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psa 22:9  But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Psa 22:10  I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Psa 22:11  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Psa 22:12  Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Psa 22:13  They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psa 22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psa 22:15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Psa 22:16  For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Psa 22:17  I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Psa 22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Psa 22:19  But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Psa 22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Psa 22:21  Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psa 22:22  I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Psa 22:23  Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psa 22:24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Psa 22:25  My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

Psa 22:26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Psa 22:27  All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psa 22:28  For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.

Psa 22:29  All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Psa 22:30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Psa 22:31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Ask yourself this question- When the Roman soldiers parted Jesus' garment and cast lots upon them- did they KNOW the prophecy? 

No.

They were ROMANS, not JEWS. They were soldiers following orders to crucify a man who fancied himself to be the king of the Jews. They had no clue they were fulfilling a prophecy. Their actions were being recorded. Those that witnessed the crucifixion recorded what transpired.

Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

Joh 19:24  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.

There is NO way the Roman soldiers would have fulfilled the prophecy knowingly. The Romans wanted this whole Jesus debacle done and over with and they thought killing Him would do the trick. They did NOT want to deepen the proof of His Lordship, of His Holiness. 

Prophecy.   Future history predicted long before it takes place. 

The Bible is FILLED with prophecy.  PROOF beyond doubt of a loving God who would not have us ignorant of His designs.  We are alone to blame if we do NOT know HIM and He know us! He's given us His truth, His Way… Life now and everlasting.

All by the grace of our Savior may we KNOW truth! May we comprehend the LIGHT given to us!

Please, Father!

In the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen!