Do Not Quench The Spirit
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Series: Powerful Pithy Passages.
19 Do not quench the Spirit.
Let’s examine our lesson.
What Does Quench Mean?
What Does Quench Mean?
Defining The Word.
Defining The Word.
The Greek word here is “σβέννυμι” and it means…
“to extinguish, to go out, to stifle, to suppress.”
So the apostle Paul is inspired to right to not “extinguish the Holy Spirit.”
But as you and I know we do not have the strength or capability to extinguish God himself.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
7 “Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Summary
Summary
Obviously, we do not have the ability to extinguish God himself, so what exactly is he getting at?
Stifling God’s Word
Stifling God’s Word
Suppressing The Truth.
Suppressing The Truth.
Again, we do not posses the ability to extinguish God himself but we do have the ability to stifle or suppress God’s word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15) which is the mind of God (1 Corinthians 2:10-16).
To better understand this let’s look at Ephesians 5:18.
Ephesians 5:18 (ESV)
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit
It is clear that we are to be filled up to the overflow point with the Holy Spirit but how does that work?
How can we distinguish between us being filled with something other than the Spirit and the Spirit himself.
It is through the ability to distinguish between worldliness and holiness.
Hebrews 5:12–14 (ESV)
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
When we filled with God’s word we are by definition filled with God as well.
This is why Jesus desire for us to hunger and thirst after him and his word.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Summary
Summary
We cannot stifle or suppress the Holy Spirit himself but we can stifle and suppress or extinguish his effectiveness in our lives through putting out the fire he creates in us through the word.
9 If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
Conclusion
Conclusion
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Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.