I think that we can quench the Holy Spirit without even knowing we are doing it and we do it without even thinking about it. He is that still small voice inside of us.
In the world today, we are combatted with the loud noise of our mind, it doesn't even have to be loud around us, our mind is loud enough because we have so much going on in it. We could even have just the thoughts of what we are going to do today going on trampling on what the Holy Spirit is trying to say. We are driven by the thoughts of getting through the day, we driven to get to the next tasks, instead of saying the very thing the Holy Spirit wants to hear. You may ask what is that?? That is Lord, I am yours, please lead me and I will follow.
That still small voice leads us and we do not follow, we are quenching the spirit. If counsel guides us and we ignore the counsel as well, we are not only quenching the spirit we are quenching the spirit in the counselor as well. We have to be aware that we are affecting the very thing that we are told not to do. Once we quench the Spirit, that is a very dangerous ground to walk on, because without the Spirit, we are missing the very guidance that leads and guides us.
I am saddened by some of todays church, because they have removed some of the power of the Holy Spirit. I will probably be shot for saying what I am going to say, but from what I have seen, instead of what Paul saw in his day, the quenching fire, some have made the Holy Spirit a some what rainbow of things, like you get the gift of clerical work, or... I am sorry, I believe the Holy Spirit is so much more than that, maybe He is that, but God is so much great than just that. What happened to the Teacher, the Healer, the Speaker and more, God is God and we have put Him in a box, it is time to take God out of the box. God is God, creator of the universe.
The Gospel is here to teach us, to bring us to repentance for our sins. We are deluding the gospel, we are hiding from the truth, we are watering it down. My heart is breaking. When was the last time you heard a message on Sin, true sin, the kinds that breaks God's heart? When was the last time that sin was called sin, not just that we love the sinner, but hate the sin. When was the last time? Yes, Jesus ate with the sinners, but He did not except the sins, He said turn from your sins and sin no more, not keep sinning. That is the difference. We are saying come eat with us and keep sinning, because we can't call your sin sin, because that isn't up to us, that is up to God. What happened to calling sin sin?
I am sorry!!! Are we quenching the Spirit by not speaking the truth of God? Maybe I shouldn't post this.
