In-to-me-see (Holy, Holy Spirit) – Do not grieve…

The Bible calls Jesus & Holy Spirit an Advocate

Advocate

• One who pleads another’s cause before a judge (HS pleads my case)
• An Intercessor on behalf of another (HS intercedes for me)
• Also called a Helper or a Comforter

• Joh 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
• 1 Joh 2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father–Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

What Jesus is for us in heaven, Holy Spirit is to us here, very close.

Holy Spirit is Jesus with us (what Jesus was to His disciples, Holy Spirit would become).

Who is the One living in us?

• Gen 1 – The Spirit (Ruach) of Elohim
• Isa 11:2 – The Spirit (Ruach)) of the Lord (Jehovah)
  • Jehovah – the name of God YHVY – a name too Holy even to mention by the Jews
  • In this context today – Holy, Holy Spirit
• Gal 4:6 – The Spirit (pneuma / pneumatos) of the Son (The Spirit of Jesus)
• Rom 8:9 – The Spirit (pneuma) of Christ
• Joh4:24 God is Spirit, and those….

Ruach (Hebrew)

• Breath of life, Wind
• Soul – The spiritual, immaterial, immortal part of a human being (or of God)
• Essence
  • The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something that determines its nature
  • “who you are”

Hagios Pneumatos (Greek)

• Pneumatos: breath, spirit, the rational soul (“who you are”)
• Hagios: sacred, pure, morally blameless, consecrated, set apart

The very essence of who God is, is living inside of you and me

Acts 2:38 Repent, be baptized and you will receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit. (a gift given to us – Why?)

Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…

Luk 24:49 … stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.

2 Pet 1:3 His divine power [HOLY SPIRIT] has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

• Afrikaans: Sy Goddelike krag het ons alles geskenk wat ons nodig het om te lewe en hom te dien (NLV – om naby aan Hom te lewe)
• DO YOU WANT TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE?
• In Holy Spirit we have what we need to live Godly lives.

Rom 8:4 And so He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

• The righteousness that the law had to achieve / accomplish in us, but could not, was brought to fulfillment and achieved by the giving of indwelling Holy Spirit.
• Lets read verse 5 & 6 of Rom 8
  • Rom 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
  • Rom 8:6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
  • Where Holy Spirit has control the righteous requirement that the law could not achieve, is achieved in us.
  • Can you see why Jesus called Holy Spirit the GIFT from the Father

Holy Spirit is:

• The very breath & essence of God (A Person, God)
• Advocate
• Helper
• Comforter
• Gift
• The power I need to live close to God
• The Lord my righteousness
• Spirit of Christ Jesus / The Spirit of Elohim
• Emmanuel – God with me
• My source of life

I have laid a foundation to get to the following…

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Eph 4:30 – Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you have been sealed until the day of redemption.

Grieving Holy Spirit = Grieving the very heart / soul of God

• But God is God, He will make it… Yes, right
• What happens in you if you are the cause of grief to your loved ones? (regret, remorse)
• So many times we are not even aware that we are grieving Holy Spirit?
• Eph 4 – living like gentiles, darkened understanding & ignorance, hardened hearts, greed, lying, stealing, bitterness, rage and anger, fighting, false accusations, intentions to bring harm

Based on His names we could say:

• Since He is the Spirit of holiness (Romans 1:4), impurity in the life and mind of the one He indwells would grieve Him.
• As the Spirit of wisdom, understanding and knowledge (Isaiah 11:2), deliberate ignorance of truth can grieve Him
• As the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2), clinging to old patterns of our former deadness to Him grieves Him
• As the Spirit of power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7), a stubborn adherence to weakness, or a holding-on to hatred, or a lack of soberness in our inner man, would all grieve Him
• Because He is the Spirit of truth (John 14:17), lying, falsehood, heresy and hypocritical pretense would grieve Him
• As the Spirit of faith (2 Corinthians 4:13), fleshly doubts or attitudes of wavering would grieve Him
• And as the Spirit of glory (1 Peter 4:14), living on the level of the mundane or keeping our focus only on earthly matters would grieve Him

Question: “I should not sin because…” / “I hate sinning because…”

• Not because of what my sin does to me, but what it does to Holy Spirit.
• It grieves Holy Spirit – I hate grieving Holy Spirit
• It causes distance between myself and God – I hate distance
• Less greaving results in greater intimacy

Quenching the Holy Spirit

1Thes 5:19 – do not quench the Spirit.

Quench: the idea of extinguishing the flame of a lamp – Putting out the fire

Luk 3:16 – Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Holy Spirit is a fire living inside the believer.

• A purification fire, the breath and source of life, the POWER I need to live close to God
• We can suppress this fire / we can suppress the work of HS / we can resist the HS
• HOW: 1Thes 5:22 – hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.

David after sinning – Psa 51:11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

We can extinguish the work of the comforter, advocate, helper, power, breath of life in us..

(Growing beyond what sin does to me, to what my sin does to Him)