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Let's go to Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 30.

I want to speak today about grieving the Holy Spirit or not to grieve the Holy Spirit.

How not to grieve the Holy Spirit.

Ephesus chapter 4 and verse 30. And it says the following,

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgiven you.

The very idea we see in here where the Bible says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

The word grieve in this text means simply to cause grief.

To grieve.

To be in heaviness. To be sorrowful, to affect somebody with sadness,

to cause grief, and to throw somebody into sorrow.

The word grief in a simple English is where we get our word getting your feelings hurt.

The very idea, if I could reread this, do not get the Holy Spirit's feelings hurt. That right the way tells us something about the Holy Spirit that he is not a ghost, in a sense a spirit that doesn't have a personality,

in a sense of force, in the sense of a dove, in the sense of a wind or oil, but he is a person

that you can grieve, but if you can make somebody hurt, you can also make somebody happy.

Right? Every married husband, every married wife,

everyone who has parents, if you can make somebody hurt, you can also make somebody pleased.

You can also make somebody be very excited by certain things that you do. The Holy Spirit

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