Good Morning Holy Spirit
Chapter 11: "Why Are You Weeping?"
1. Why can't blasphemy against the Holy Spirit be forgiven?
I think about the different hurts we deal with in life - physical pain will heal over time, but when someone speaks negatively about you and wounds your spirit, it takes much time, and an act of God to help you get past it, to move on and not have it effect everything you do. I think that the Spirit of God is fragile or sensitive much like our own spirits are sensitive and fragile. When you make the choice to speak against, or to insult the Holy Spirit, it causes Him pain, and when you purposefully harm God's Spirit, God will not forgive you for it.
2. Read Matthew 12:30-32. How can you be assured you will never blasphemy the Holy Spirit?
Matthew 12:30-32 (NKJV)
30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
The Unpardonable Sin
31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
If we love Jesus and desire to serve Him and walk with Him each day, we will not ever speak a word against the Holy Spirit...only those who do not love the Lord, and who do not care what His Word says, or what He thinks about their daily actions and decisions, will purposefully speak against a Holy Spirit.
3. How do you know the Holy Spirit is still with you?
As we go throughout our daily lives the Holy Spirit is faithful to convict us of wrong thoughts, actions, words, etc. And He leads us to pray for someone or tell someone Jesus love them, etc. If The Holy Spirit is still actively speaking to you, you know that He is still with you.
4. Describe what it means to "walk after the Spirit." Read Romans 8:1.
Romans 8:1 (NKJV)
Free from Indwelling Sin
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Walking according to the Spirit, is when we make the choice to obey His voice. When He convicts us of a sin, we quickly ask for forgiveness. When He asks us to pray, we stop what were doing and we pray. Obedience to His Voice = Walking in the Spirit.
5. For the next seven days, work on memorizing the seven works of the Spirit described by Paul in Romans 8. Write a short list of the good things that will occur when each work is manifest in your life.
Seven Works of The Holy Spirit as described by Paul in Romans 8:
1. There is power over sin. -I will be able to make right choices and decisions
2. He will fulfill the law. -I no longer need to try to be perfect, He takes care of it.
3. He will give you the mind of God. -I have the mind of God working daily renewing my mind.
4. He will give you righteousness. -Even though I am a sinner, He gives me the righteousness paid for through Christ death on the cross.
5. He will give life to your body. -My body will daily be renewed and strengthened.
6. He will bring death to self. -It is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives through me.
7. He will testify of your salvation. -Other's will see that I am different, they will see Christ in me, my life will be a light.
