Resist Holy Spirit
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Do not quench the Spirit. The apostle Paul’s closing instructions to the Thessalonian church stresses the believer’s responsibility for guarding his or her own spiritual integrity with this command: “Do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19–21).
In the original text, the verb for “quench” used here speaks of suppressing fire or stifling a flame. The Holy Spirit is like a fire dwelling in each believer. When Paul writes, “Do not quench the Holy Spirit,” he is cautioning Christians not to suppress the fire of God’s Spirit that burns within us. This command to the Thessalonians is similar to reminders Paul gave Timothy “to keep ablaze the gift of God that is in you” (2 Timothy 1:6) and “do not neglect the spiritual gift you received through the prophecy spoken over you when the elders of the church laid their hands on you” (1 Timothy 4:14).
The Bible often describes the Lord’s presence as “a consuming fire” (Exodus 3:2; 24:17; Hebrews 12:29). Fire represents zeal, passion, enthusiasm, power, illumination, and purity. The fire of God’s presence exists in every Christian through the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; Psalm 51:11; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:22). Jesus imparts this gift by baptizing us with “the Holy Spirit and fire” (Matthew 3:11). In the book of Acts, when the Holy Spirit first filled believers on the day of Pentecost, He settled on them “like flames or tongues of fire” and “everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability”.
The Holy Spirit cannot be snuffed out. But He can be quenched or stifled when we resist the Spirit’s work in our own lives and in the church. In the context of 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul seems to be referring to not quenching the spiritual gift of prophecy: “Do not stifle the Holy Spirit. Do not scoff at prophecies, but test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good. Stay away from every kind of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:19–22).
Prophecy is the “telling forth” of God’s Word; the giving of the Word (from God) is revelation, and prophecy is the human channel for relaying it. The Word of God is also portrayed as a burning, illuminating fire (Jeremiah 5:14; 20:9; 23:28–30; Psalm 119:105). The Word of God must not be suppressed (Colossians 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19). When the gift of prophecy is exercised correctly, it strengthens, teaches, encourages, and comforts the church (2 Timothy 3:16; Psalm 19:7–8; Hebrews 4:12–13; Romans 15:4; Ephesians 6:10–17).
The Holy Spirit operates in the believer personally and in the life of the church. First, He convicts us of sin and our need for salvation (1 Thessalonians 1:5). We quench the Holy Spirit’s fire when we ignore or reject His work of convincing “the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment” (John 16:8).
The Spirit gives us direction in life (Acts 13:2; 15:28), transforms our circumstances (Philippians 1:19), encourages us (Acts 9:31), empowers us to share the gospel (Acts 1:8; 6:10), and does the sanctifying work of changing us into the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18; see also Romans 15:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2). But when we do not allow the Spirit to work in our hearts or be seen in our actions, we quench the Holy Spirit. If we prevent the Spirit from manifesting Himself in the way He wants to—when we act or think contrary to the practices and character of God—we quench the Holy Spirit within us. In rejecting the Spirit’s guidance in our lives, we smother the flame instead of fanning it, and we halt the production of the fruits of the Spirit like “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control”.
Quenching the Holy Spirit is like grieving the Spirit in that both negatively affect the believer, the church, and the world. The Holy Spirit is grieved when we rebel against God (Ephesians 4:30; Isaiah 63:10). When we follow our own worldly desires, we quench the Holy Spirit within. We hinder the cultivation of personal godliness, which in turn undermines the church’s holiness and causes sorrow and distress to the Spirit of God.
When we “quench not the Holy Spirit” , He burns within us like a living letter written on the tablets of our hearts. Our lives are set ablaze to shine forth the truth, light, and love of God to everyone we encounter . When we do not quench the Holy Spirit, His fiery presence brings unity, blessings, and fellowship, along with freedom, peace, and resurrection life. As the fire on the altar in the temple was never to go out (Leviticus 6:12), so we must never quench the Holy Spirit of God on the altar of our hearts.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit . Revelation-Knowledge Is In The Name Of LORD JESUS CHRIST. (Acts 2:38 onwards, water immersion in the NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST) “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to HIM.
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Matthew 26:41 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 4:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Matthew 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
Matthew 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Isaiah 63:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
Genesis 1:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...
James 1:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Titus 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Galatians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’
For there are three that testify:
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers. This five-fold ministry will perfect the Bride for the coming rapture.
Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
