THE HOLY SPIRIT

When dealing with the Holy Spirit one must be sensitive and careful when it comes to:

1. Grieving of the Holy Spirit 
2. Being given over to one's own 
3. Sin against the Holy Spirit

1. THE GRIEVING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

A. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30).

The Holy Spirit seals us and so He is near, but so many people play with their imaginary childish excitements rather with the Holy Spirit and so he is grieved. I know the Holy Spirit for He writes these words right now. Others only aspire to know Him the way I do, but all I can do is teach them first. If my teaching is rejected and stubbornly replaced with their own, then one day such will be given over to their own.

B. I've been in places where the Holy Spirit intensely cried within me and I was in pain. He said, “take me out of here. Don't bring me here anymore.” I know what it means to grieve and even torment the Holy Spirit. Actually, the Holy Spirit did not allow me to return to those places where God performed many miracles. I always wondered about it. Today I fully understand.

C. When people discover the supernatural they want to somehow monopolize it. The Holy Spirit makes me resist these places, and resist those people that hinder His work.

[Acts 16:6] (…) they were trying to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them…

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Since we were allowed to eat of the Tree of Knowledge we first learned what is evil, and yet the way of pain remained strangely attractive to us.

The mystery of evil is no mystery at all for it is indeed a choice and choice can only be made when opposites are available. Anything painful is evil and anything that heals is good. Once one is healed of evil one becomes good, there is no pain and no struggle but peace and rest and that's again very good.

[Genesis 1:31] God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.

So what happened? Why did we fall in love with evil and why can't we let go of it? Have we gotten sick and are unwilling to part with it until the dying day?

People are careful when it comes to something good or even too good for words, but too readily and ignorantly so lap up evil. No surprise that so many get indigestion and are unwell.