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- A Solemn Warning Against Grieving Away the Holy Spirit
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
March 26, 2025
A Solemn Warning Against Grieving Away the Holy Spirit
“And grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Eph. 4:30, K.J.V.
While continuing to examine each of the “fruits” of the Spirit, we should never lose sight of the Person of the Holy Spirit himself in the specific nature of His mission and work on earth, even as we can temporarily lose focus on Jesus’ incarnated human nature perfected through sufferings (Heb. 5:8,9), while getting absorbed with His miraculous works or fixated on the yet-unseen “glories”
of the “place” He has been “preparing” since His ascension two thousand years ago!
Hereunder is a powerful illustration cited by Leroy E. Froom in his book, The Coming Comforter, p. 195. (Emphasis mine):
“A boy once had a DOVE so tame he would perch in his shoulder and take food from his hand. One day the lad held out a tempting morsel. As the bird came of eat, he closed his hand over the food. The bird turned away disappointed. Again he opened his hand. The second time the bird came, more timidly. And once more the hand was closed. With drooping wings the dove went a short distance away. Yet again the hand was extended. The bird hesitated, then came slowly forward. When he was about to take the food the hand closes for the third time. Then the dove spread his wings and FLEW AWAY, and the lad never saw him again. Such is the fate of those who at last DRIVE AWAY the Holy Spirit, the ‘heavenly dove.’
God’s last-day messenger bearing “the Spirit of prophecy which is the testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 12:17; 19:10), succinctly enunciated this awful truth:
“After God has shown individuals their sins and given them GRACE [through the Holy Spirit] to overcome, and His Spirit has been LONG STRIVING with them, He will NOT work a miracle to prevent the sure result of RESISTING that Spirit and PERSISTING in a wrong course. There is a BOUNDARY to His grace and mercy; and when this boundary is passed, the AID [divine help and power] of His Spirit, so wickedly refused and INSULTED, is WITHDRAWN, and the soul is given over to the WORST Of TYRANTS—THE POWER OF A PERVERTED WILL. If we are closely connected with sacred things, and yet do not realize their importance, the HEART will become so hard that the most earnest appeals will NOT move it into contrition [conviction to repentance].” Ellen G. White, Bible Echo, June, 1888.
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
- Goodness: the Fifth ‘Fruit’ of the Holy Spirit (Part 3)
MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
March 19, 2025
Goodness: the Fifth ‘Fruit’ of the Holy Spirit (Part 3)
GENTILES CONVERTED THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT REMINDED OF GOD’S UNCHANGING EQUAL GOODNESS AND SEVERITY
“Behold therefore the GOODNESS and SEVERITY of God: on them which fell, severity; but towards thee (converted Gentiles), GOODNESS, IF thou continue in His (God’s) GOODNESS: otherwise thou (converted Gentiles) thou shalt also be cut off. [see Heb. 3: 6, 14]. And they also (the remaining Israelites/Jews), if they abide NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again (in His goodness and wisdom).” Rom. 11: 22, 23.
Apostle Paul here is admonishing first, the Gentile converts in the early church in Rome, and finally, all end-time converts from heathenism and paganism to the Revelation 14: 12 commandment-keeping remnant church of prophecy.
He reminds all that “not once saved, always saved,” “not once chosen, always chosen.” He repeats the fundamental truths that:
1) God is “no respecter of persons;” “there is neither Jew, nor Greek, nor Gentile,” for “all have fallen short of the glory of God.”
2) that as Jesus, who is “the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express IMAGE of His Person,” “loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity” so does He manifest GOODNESS towards those who remain faithful to their calling and election but SEVERITY towards those who fall away in stubbornness, rebellion, and apostasy against the abundance of blessing and light of truth shown to them in God’s love, mercy, and goodness!
God the Father IN Christ the only-begotten Son THROUGH the Holy Spirit, is the one God of the GODHEAD who “changeth not;” is “the same yesterday, today, and forever;” is “from eternity past to eternity future,” the timeless “I Am.”
“Surely His mercy and goodness follows all the days of the lives” of those who have “presented their bodies as a living(not dead) sacrifice as their reasonable service” as their loving and gratefulness towards God’s mysterious long-suffering and GOODNESS. They, whether Jew, Greek, or Gentile, “do not allow sin to reign in their yet-mortal bodies,” “keeping it in subjection to the mind,” the mind of Christ.” Gratefully accepting that their bodies “have been purchased with a price,” even the blood of Christ, they yield these bodies to become dedicated, hallowed, and sanctified “temple/ of God and the Holy Spirit” converting their yet “mortal bodies” to be “temples of God and the Holy Spirit!” Their minds are of “the new man in Christ Jesus.”
It is but spiritually natural that such will bear the fruit of GOODNESS and the rest of the ten “fruits of the Spirit.” This is the only way, “walk ye in it.”
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.
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