Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, August 22nd.

Jesus promised to send the Spirit of God to enable his followers to live a godly life.

In today's episode, we'll explore a crucial warning.

Don't hinder the flow of the Holy Spirit in your life.

When you trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, God did us a wonderful favor.

He didn't just leave us here to do the best we could with our life, but the Bible says he sent

the person of the Holy Spirit, a person of the Trinity, to live within, to assist us, to be our helper.

In every aspect of our life, he's there to help us, to give us divine guidance, to bring us

into truth, to show us the truth of His Word, to gift us in order to do those things that

God would have us to accomplish and to achieve.

So many ways that God blesses us through His Spirit, and yet the Bible says we also sin

against the Spirit.

First Thessalonians chapter 5 in a very, very short verse, but a very strong warning to all of

us who believe us, Paul said to the Thessalonians, do not quench the spirit.

Do not quench the spirit. Now, he's speaking of the Holy Spirit here. Now, what does he mean

when he says that you and I are not to quench the spirit? And if you'll recall in the book of

Acts in the very beginning, at Pentecost, what happens in the third verse,

that second chapter the Bible says, and they're appeared to them, tongues as of fire,

distributing themselves and they rested on each one of them.

Now, when you think about the Holy Spirit and you think about fire, with fire usually comes the idea of cleansing and light and truth and sanctification and warmth.

Many aspects and many ideas come to mind. Usually, oftentimes, the very idea of the presence of God, There's something about fire. And so when we talk

about quenching the Holy Spirit, what he's saying is this. He says, quench not the spirit. The word quench

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