And grieve not the holy Spirit of God (Ephesians 4:30). The Bible definitely tells you not to grieve the Holy Spirit; and in order not to do that, you must first be aware of what causes Him grief. Your personality and the personality of the Holy Spirit were meant to blend together and work in harmony, so anything that grieves the Holy Spirit will not blend with Him. The word “blend” means to mix, merge, unite, go well together or harmonize. Things are blended to produce a desired quality. When the Holy Spirit can blend with the human spirit, He then blends it with the personality of Jesus to make one great personality; but He will never blend anything with that which grieves Him.

One definition of the word “grieve” is to burden; and when the Holy Spirit is grieved, He is burdened. To grieve means to oppress, and how sad it is to oppress someone as wonderful and great as the Holy Spirit. He is the one who has come to live on the inside of you and be your teacher and guide!

To grieve means to afflict with deep, acute sorrow, and you afflict the Holy Spirit with deep sorrow when you say or do the wrong things.

To grieve means to make sad or distress, and you make the Holy Spirit sad and distressed when you disobey the Lord. God’s own people can make the Holy Spirit sad with some of the things they do, and that causes Him to mourn. He cannot possibly mix with anything that is foreign to His personality.

To grieve the Holy Spirit is to make Him lament, or mourn deeply; and many have done that to Him.

Quench Not the Spirit

“Quench” means to extinguish or put out the Spirit’s work just as you would put out a fire. When you don’t yield to the Holy Spirit, it grieves Him; and you put Him out of the solution to your problem, out of the teaching He seeks to give you, out of the anointing He wants to give you to pray and out of your prayers.

By quenching the Holy Spirit, many people have excluded Him from their fasts. Yes, they did fast, but they didn’t get any benefit from it. Some people can fast for forty days and not change. I have had numbers of forty-day fasts down through the years; and every time I fasted forty days, I called it victory. Jesus received victory when He fasted for forty days and nights, and He is our example.

At the end of a forty-day fast, I always close my case. At one time, I prayed and fasted for forty days and nights for a special project for the ministry; and then I closed my case, even though almost two years passed before the answer came. I didn’t care how long it took; I knew the answer would come because the Lord had showed it to me in a vision. God doesn’t show visions of deceit, and I believe God.

Use Divine Faith and Love

In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, we read of how people were victorious through faith because they yielded to the Holy Spirit instead of grieving Him. When the Holy Spirit and the human spirit are blended into one, it makes up the wonderful personality of Jesus; however, the Holy Spirit will not blend with your spirit unless you use the pure faith of God. You can’t use His faith in any great way when you grieve His Spirit; and you can’t use His love when you grieve His Spirit./

Small disobediences and little things of the flesh grieve the Holy Spirit. Because God’s people have grieved the Holy Spirit on different occasions, they have not been able to use their faith all the time; but divine faith is to be used all the time. Paul said, Faith which worketh by love (Galatians 5:6).

To love the Lord is to please Him. You grieve the Holy Spirit by saying you love Him while failing to please Him and by loving self or others more than you love God. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I John 2:15).

Don’t be deceived about love. You must know the difference between human love and divine love. When you grieve the Holy Spirit, you cannot use His divine love.

In Hebrews, we read, The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him (Hebrews 10:38). You must not grieve the Holy Spirit at any time if you expect to have the divine faith of God and use it; but if you draw back from the Lord, you grieve the Holy Spirit, and His soul will have no pleasure in you. We were made in the image of God and given a miniature soul like the great soul of God. The soul is eternal like God Himself, and it will live forever either in Heaven or in hell.

Sin Grieves the Spirit

In the Garden of Eden, God enjoyed man and woman before sin entered into them; but after Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they reacted differently to the voice of the Lord. They grieved God’s Spirit so much that His grace no longer was in their lives, and they brought judgment upon themselves. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself (Genesis 3:9,10). That was the first time man was ashamed of his nakedness and the first time he realized his soul was unrighteous and naked in the eyes of God.

Before man sinned, he did not look on himself as being naked. He was clothed in God’s garments of righteousness, holiness and purity; but guilt drove Adam and Eve into hiding. Then God asked them, Who told thee that thou was naked (Genesis 3:11)? God knew that their new-found awareness had come from the evil one they had listened to. Then the sad story of how they had grieved the Spirit by disobeying God came pouring forth; and God drove them out of the Garden of Eden, away from His voice and away from His daily companionship. How tragic!

Escape Destruction

Abraham lived so close to God that God took him into His confidence and told him He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him (Genesis 18:17-19).

When God told Abraham what He was going to do, Abraham stood before the Lord and pleaded for the righteous in those cities. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein (Genesis 18:23,24)? The Lord loved Abraham so much that He said He would. And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes (Genesis 18:26).

Abraham went on to ask the Lord, “Will you spare the city if there be forty-five righteous…if there be thirty righteous…if there be twenty righteous…if there be ten righteous?” The Lord agreed not to destroy the city for the sake of just ten righteous people; however, He could not find ten righteous in the city. But the Bible tells us God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished (II Peter 2:7-9). Notice that nothing was said about Lot’s wife being vexed with the sins of Sodom.

God sent an angel to lead Lot and his family out of Sodom before it was destroyed, but only his wife and his two daughters heeded the warning. However, Lot’s wife had grieved the Spirit again and again until she was so weak that she failed God. She wanted the life of Sodom and not what the Lord was leading her into. She loved the world more than she loved God, and she looked back to where her heart was. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26).

Lot’s wife did not grieve the Spirit out of her life until she looked back. Her daughters had not grieved God like their mother had, and they were able to escape God’s hand of judgment.

When people reach the place where they don’t want God, He will reach the place where He won’t want them. The cutting-off time will come for those who persist in turning from Him; and one of these days, all the sinful people on Earth will be cut off. Just like God didn’t want Adam and Eve after they had sinned, He won’t want those who refuse to obey Him today. The Lord will say, “I don’t want you anymore. I have called and called to you, and you rebelled. My Son died for you, and you didn’t care. Now I don’t want you.”

We Must Please God

Today, the eyes of the Lord are running to and fro throughout the whole Earth seeking the righteous to save. For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him (II Chronicles 16:9).

God will take the righteous Bride out from this Earth before destruction falls just as the angels led Lot and his family out of Sodom. Lot and his family are a type of the Bride, and the two angels who pulled them away from destruction are a type of the Word and the Holy Spirit. It is through the Word of God and the Holy Spirit that the Bride will get out of here. She won’t look back because there is nothing behind that is worth looking back to or desiring. Only unholiness, unrighteousness and that which is unclean and despised by God remain behind. Jesus paid the supreme price on Calvary so that we could be delivered from all sin and never have to look back.

Enoch didn’t grieve the Holy Spirit, and he was actually far from doing that. He pleased God so much that the Lord took him to Heaven alive. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:5,6).

The Bible doesn’t say anything about the fate of the rest of Enoch’s family, only him. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him (Genesis 5:23,24). The Bible does tell us that Enoch’s son lived to be 969 years old before he died, but it says nothing about whether or not he pleased God. Since the Bible says he died, we do know that the Lord didn’t take him to Heaven like He did his father; but Enoch had done such a good job of walking with the Lord that He wanted Enoch to be with Him all the time in eternal paradise.

The Israelites Failed God

The Israelites did not accept God’s ways and instead, lived by their own opinions. God had given them His ways, but they wouldn’t walk in them; so in His wrath, God swore that they would not enter into His rest. For forty years, the Israelites wandered in the wilderness because God was grieved with those stiff-necked, rebellious people. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest (Psalm 95:10,11).

All those who were twenty years and older, except Caleb and Joshua, died in the wilderness before their children could go into the land God had planned for them. Through Moses, the Lord told them, Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness (Numbers 14:29-32).

God would have driven seven nations out of the Promised Land for His people; but instead, He drove out seven nations for their children. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot (Acts 13:19). They could have had peace at last and lived in a land flowing with milk and honey where God would have been their captain, but that didn’t happen because they wouldn’t agree with God.

The Lord had been very good to them. He had protected them and provided them with food and water. He had rained down manna from Heaven six days a week and called it angel food. The people were told to gather enough food on the sixth day to last them for the seventh day as well because that was the day of rest.

God had given the Israelites a cloud by day to shelter them in the wilderness and a pillar of fire at night to light their way. He told them, I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot (Deuteronomy 29:5).

The Lord had brought the Israelites out of Egypt with great love and power; but again and again, they grieved Him. While Moses was on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments from the Lord, the people insisted that Aaron make a golden calf for them to worship. When Moses came down from the mount, they pleaded with Moses to tell God never to speak to them again. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die (Exodus 20:19).

Think about how God must have felt when He heard that! He loved the children of Israel so much that He had revealed Himself in a great way so they would know He was the one who would fulfill all their needs and lead them through the wilderness to the Promised Land. Yet after all of that, they didn’t want Him to ever speak to them again. Think of the tears the Lord must have shed over Israel.

Later, Israel grieved God by wanting a king even though He had wanted to be their king, but God let them have their way. He had given man free choice, but what they wanted grieved His heart. God told the prophet Samuel to anoint Saul to be king; and Saul started out well, being humble and obedient before God. Later, he backslid, and the Lord regretted that He had ever made Saul king.

It also broke Samuel’s heart when Saul fell. He cried and cried because the Spirit of the living God dwelled in Samuel, and that Spirit was a part of him.

The Price of Grieving the Spirit

The righteous are grieved when the Spirit is grieved, and the Spirit is grieved when the righteous are grieved. The Bible says the Lord is touched with the feeling of our infirmities (Hebrews 4:15). The Lord feels the hurt of His children, and He feels it when we cry tears from the heart. He is a part of our personality, and we are a part of His.

Study the grieving of the Spirit in Old Testament days; it is an enlightening study. Israel grieved God so much that He killed thousands of them at a time. Sometimes, the ground even opened and swallowed people, just as it did for Korah and those who followed him.

Achan grieved the Lord, and he and his entire family were stoned. And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones (Joshua 7:25).

Over 2500 years ago, Joel saw the great pouring out of the Holy Spirit. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28). The Early Church gloried in that pouring out of the Spirit; and when they received it, they came into the spirit of pleasing God. They yielded 100 percent to the Holy Spirit and had such perfect obedience that the Lord would allow no contamination in the midst of His people.

Ananias and his wife were members of the Early Church. The two of them each told just one lie, and God killed them. They had sold a piece of land for a certain amount of money, but they lied to Peter about that amount. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things (Acts 5:3-5).

Later, Ananias’ wife, Sapphira, came before Peter not knowing what had happened to her husband. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost (Acts 5:9,10). God will pay any price to keep His people pure and clean, and He proved that by giving Jesus for us.

Sin and the Spirit Don’t Mix

What a disgrace the human race has been. So many have trampled the blood of Jesus underfoot and blasphemed the name of God! What great injustices they have rendered to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost! In this last hour, God’s exacting and strict discipline will be in force once again. Hypocrites and deceivers will, no doubt, fall over dead in the congregation of God’s people or be swept out of the way.

Man’s personality without Jesus consists of an unclean heart and eyes that search for the sensuous. Thus saith the Lord, if you claim to have Jesus today but are looking at the wrong things, you will grieve Him [and] hamper Him until finally, He will leave. Ears that listen to the wrong things and mouths that speak criticism and gossip are evidence of people in a degraded state.

Before Calvary, man was so unclean and unholy that God would not walk with him. Then Jesus came to Earth and died for our sins, so all who will accept the blood of Jesus into their hearts and souls can be purged from the sin nature they were born with. Only the divine blood of Jesus could have done that, and only the divine blood can keep you purged daily. His blood must be applied to your heart and remain there day and night.

Now, just because the blood is applied to your heart, it doesn’t mean you can sin. If you sin, the blood no longer remains in your soul; and you will lose your salvation. Many people have taught false doctrine and said that is not so, and that false doctrine has damned many souls to a devil’s hell. Souls who had thought they were going to Heaven woke up in hell; and once you are in hell, it is too late to leave.

Leeches of the Mind

I bring you this verse again: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God (Ephesians 4:30). Any kind of disobedience grieves the Holy Spirit; and if you continue in disobedience, it will make you weaker and weaker until it pulls you into self so much that the devil can take over completely. Disobedience in anything is dangerous, but disobedience that leads to all-out sin can be fatal. Anyone who wants to walk with God must not be disobedient. The Holy Spirit cannot work in an undisciplined life.

When a person comes to the place where he has yielded all to the Lord, he is promised the Holy Ghost; and the Holy Ghost has come into the hearts of many who have accepted Him. Then later, some have failed Him, grieved Him and smothered Him out of their lives. Instead of letting the Holy Spirit blend with their spirit, they preferred their own spirit and insisted on having their own way; and finally, mental leeches took over.

Leeches are blood-sucking worms that are three to four inches long, and they live in water or wet earth. The word “leech” is also used to describe a person who clings to another for some gain, like a parasite. The devil’s leeches are tiny spirits that, like physical parasites, clamp on to the human mind and suck the spiritual life right out of a person. Any leech the devil can get you to accept will hinder you.

Mental leeches take God’s reasoning power out of people’s minds and steal their joy. Leeches of anger, clamor, jealousy, envy and strife are the devil’s tools of destruction. Mental leeches are not measured in inches like Earth’s leeches are. They are tiny, and thousands of them can be clustered together in one mind.

Through the gift of discerning that works in my life, I have seen those leeches; and I have never seen anything else like them. I have watched how they bind the minds of people and hold on in clusters. If people could look into the mirror and see what is in their mind, they would start screaming in horror. However, leeches can’t be seen in man’s mirrors, only in the mirror of the Word God has given to you. Only through the Word of God can the leeches that bind your mind be uncovered.

Keep Your Spirit Under Control

When a person is full of the Holy Spirit, there is a wonderful blend of the Spirit’s personality and their own personality. Self is put down and kept completely under control, and the wonderful fruit of the Spirit of temperance, or self-control, is produced 100 percent. The Holy Spirit knows that having His fruit is a must if a person is to please God in all things.

Don’t grieve the Spirit of God, and don’t let any spirit contaminate or affect your spirit and influence you. Even if the wrong spirit only influences you for a while and doesn’t stay, it will grieve the Holy Spirit. Unkind, ungodly thoughts grieve the Spirit, and speaking cruel words in the home grieve Him. Thus saith the Lord, some have used so many unkind words that the Holy Spirit has departed.

Actions that don’t show love grieve the Holy Spirit. If you are disgruntled, hard to get along with and hard to deal with, the Spirit is grieved.

Giving your opinions without taking them to the Word of God, finding fault with others and gossiping grieve the Holy Spirit. Criticizing the Lord’s work grieves the Holy Spirit. Some people constantly accuse others of wrongdoing, and God despises a faultfinding spirit. Faultfinders are not yielding to the Spirit, and they grieve Him. They don’t have the joy of the Holy Ghost, the peace of God or the satisfaction of working for Him.

How can you have joy in the Holy Ghost?—by pleasing Him and having a wonderful blend of your personality with His. Those personalities will be linked together in the great bond of God’s love and purity.

Don’t Carry Unforgiveness and Blame Others

Bringing up the past of people who have put it under the blood grieves the Holy Spirit. A past put under the blood is one even God doesn’t look at, so no one else has the right to re-examine it or talk about it either. If you don’t respect the blood enough to let the past of a fellow Christian be forgotten, and you insist on talking about it, how can you believe that your own past is under the blood?

Blaming others started in the Garden of Eden. When God asked Adam if he had eaten of the forbidden tree, Adam blamed Eve saying, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat (Genesis 3:12). Adam was stronger than the woman. He was made first and had the strength of Heaven to use, and he knew better than to be disobedient; yet he blamed Eve for his sin.

Some people have grown up blaming others and never taking responsibility for their own actions, but I have never seen anyone who was close to God blame others for his own faults and failures. The Bible tells us to do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke (Philippians 2:14,15). If we are not blameless before the Lord, we grieve His Holy Spirit.

Giving over to the flesh and the devil, pleasing the flesh, satisfying self more than you do God and carrying anger all grieve the Holy Spirit. How can you carry God’s pure love and faith and the humility of Jesus with you when you carry anger? How can you carry the joy and peace of the Lord when anger fills you to the brim?

God Does Not Honor Self-Justification

Being deceitful grieves the Holy Spirit and so does manipulating others to get your own way because it means you are not seeking God’s way. Some people think there is no harm in telling little white lies, but the Bible tells us that all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone (Revelation 21:8). If you commit no sin other than telling a lie and don’t repent, you will go to hell. You can’t lie and expect the Holy Spirit to remain with you.

Self-justification tells you that you have the right to do what you want to do, but that grieves the Holy Spirit. You must have God’s justification, and He won’t justify you for grumbling and complaining. He didn’t excuse the Israelites; and He won’t excuse you, especially since you have the added advantage of Calvary.

The only kind of justification the Holy Spirit rejoices in is God’s justification, which is Calvary’s justification. We are justified through the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross and not through any effort of ourselves. Many have grieved the Holy Spirit out of their lives through self-justification and claiming that whatever they do is all right. No matter how much they gossip, tattle or meddle in the lives of others, they feel justified; but God doesn’t justify anyone who meddles. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling (Proverbs 20:3).

Never Endorse Sin

Thus saith the Lord, when you give advice, you are responsible for that advice. You are taking the place of the Holy Spirit when He isn’t using you; and thus saith the Lord, you are in deep trouble. When you give advice in self, you will meet that advice at the judgment. If it has destroyed or wrecked lives, you will have to give an account for it; so be careful what you say. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned (Matthew 12:36,37). God means exactly what He says.

Some people think that whatever they do is all right. We live in an age in which people glorify sin in themselves and in their children. It is sinful to have sex outside of marriage. God planned children to be the product of marriage, not of fornication and whoredom. It is sinful for couples to live together without being married; and if you endorse or make excuses for sin, you will grieve the Holy Spirit out of your life. You will not be taken when Jesus comes, and you will be spewed into the Tribulation Period.

To justify sin in your loved ones grieves the Holy Spirit, and that is not real love. If you really love people with true love, you will want their sin to be uncovered and moved out of their life because you will know they will go to hell if they don’t change. Saying that no one can live holy is contradicting the Word of God, and claiming you cannot be like Jesus is disputing the truth and grieving the Holy Spirit.

Self Is Hard to Deal With

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD (Isaiah 1:18). The Lord always reasons in truth, and His truth contains discipline and love. Some people are so unreasonable with God and others that it is almost impossible to have a conversation with them that makes sense. Thus saith the Lord, they don’t want the truth; and they don’t want to move on in to dedication and consecration, so I let them alone.

To dispute the truth is to embrace sin and to hug the devil to your bosom. Then you can’t have and serve God’s love, and that grieves the Holy Spirit. People with very little love are cold, unreasonable and hard to deal with.

The Lord has let me know that I must get this Gospel to the world. I can spend a lifetime on unreasonable people and still get nowhere with them because they don’t want the truth, and they don’t want to reason with God. They are satisfied with their own ways and have rejected God’s ways without realizing they are deceived. They label others as being unreasonable and don’t face the truth about themselves.

Make sure you give people only what God says. If you have the Holy Spirit and are not grieving Him, you are not hard to deal with. Your heart and your spirit are soft; so when you receive constructive criticism, you are grateful without becoming angry. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning (Proverbs 9:8,9).

Naked Before God

A leeched mind without the love and faith of God working in it will reject the truth of God and will not be justified in the eyes of God. Only those who are just before God are truly justified, and the justified will walk by faith and accept the whole truth.

When you are justified, every scripture fits perfectly into your walk with God; and they don’t need to be edited or amended. Too many people are trying to modify the scriptures to fit their lifestyles, and it won’t work. You will find that your life is naked before God on that day when you will stand before Him, and many people will be disappointed at the end of their journey.

Saying the wrong things grieves the Holy Spirit, so check your words every day. Before you go to bed each night, take yourself before the Word of God and say, “Lord, have I used words that would hinder anyone today? Have I said anything unkind at home or outside my home? Did I give any wrong advice? Did I give my opinions, or did I give your truth? Did I give people my mind or the mind of the Lord? Did I have the spirit of your love and faith today, or did I have a critical spirit? Did I murmur and complain like the Israelites? Lord, will you tell me as you did the Israelites in the wilderness that I will not go into your rest?”

Are you going to be a member of the bridal company? If so, thus saith the Lord, you will please the Holy Spirit and not grieve Him. When you listen to the devil instead of to the Lord, it grieves the Holy Spirit and causes Him to cry. You who listen to the devil need not expect the Holy Spirit to live within you to teach, comfort and guide you. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, but Jesus said the devil is a liar, and the father of it (John 8:44). It grieves the Spirit when you listen to the devil.

Some people are entangled with the world and in and out with God. Thus saith the Lord, in this last hour, they will go out one of these days and not get back in. You who waver are on dangerous ground. You cannot be in and out and still journey with the Lord, so He is warning you to get in with Him and stay in and not to bring reproach on His name. The hour is too late, and the heathen need the true Gospel to be sent to them by the living epistles of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit Must Live Within

It grieves the Holy Spirit when you are full of the wrong kind of fear that the devil brings about, but the Holy Spirit rejoices when you have the fear of God. That kind of fear is having respect for God in every way. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). Until you fear God and respect Him, you won’t really have God’s wisdom.

When you have misgivings and talk about doubt, fear, frustration and despair, you grieve the Holy Spirit. Oppression and depression are not of God, and the Holy Spirit will free you from those things if you yield to Him enough. Man thinks you can take a pill to ease depression; but unfortunately, that sometimes will depress you even more. However, that is the best man can do. God is the one who delivers.

The Holy Spirit never depresses or oppresses you when you yield to Him. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38).

To ensure you have the help you need, Jesus promised to send the Holy Ghost. Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you (John 16:7).

Jesus also said that when the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, came, believers would do greater works. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Believers, in other words, will do more of the works of Jesus and on a greater scale. How?—They will have more time to work for Him, more people helping them; and they will have the Holy Ghost living inside of them.

Jesus showed us what the Holy Ghost and the human spirit can do together. He showed us that when divinity is mixed with the human spirit, they make one great personality. The disciples couldn’t understand it all until they received the gift of the Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost. Then at last, they saw clearly.

Seek Godly Riches

You grieve the Holy Spirit when your mind is on Earth’s riches instead of the riches of Heaven. Don’t be obsessed with making money and instead decide you will trust God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19). God wants to give you what you need because He wants you to help send this Gospel to the world, and it takes money to do it; but when you bow down to anything other than the God of Heaven, you are in trouble.

If you want riches for the sake of having wealth, prestige and power, you are not worthy of the Kingdom. God does not admire you because you are in step with the devil, and you will grieve the Holy Spirit right out of your life. Jesus said, Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33).

I am certainly not against people having money, but you must know that your security comes from God and not from wealth. You must keep your mind on the Kingdom of God and not be full of greed. Jesus said, But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:20,21).

Don’t Be a Hindrance

Jesus said, Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye (Matthew 7:1-3,5).

Don’t worry about a flaw you see in your brother when you yourself have a greater defect. If your judgment of others is harsh, the judgment you receive from God will be harsh because He will judge you the way you judge others. You must give everyone a just measure by turning them over to the Lord and letting Him deal with them. You are not anyone’s judge—God is. It is dangerous to judge others.

Being careless, a procrastinator or neglectful hinders your walk with the Lord; and everything that hinders your walk grieves the Holy Spirit. Are you careless with the Word of God and with your prayer life? Are you careless with your speech and with your thought life?

Not having zeal for souls and not taking the responsibility to be a true Jesus witness grieve the Holy Spirit. To be silly and shallow also grieves the Holy Spirit. Some people live on a light, superficial level and never seem to have a sober moment in which the Holy Spirit can deal with them.

Are you stubborn, or do you pout? If you are full of the Holy Ghost, you will not be stubborn or pout because those are qualities of the devil; and they can grieve the Holy Spirit right out of your life. If you attempt to get back at people by not speaking to them, you are pouting and being petty.

If you think you are justified in that kind of behavior just because your feelings are hurt, you are deceived. What if the Lord would decide to have nothing to do with you because you hurt His feelings? Some people who claim to be full of God refuse to speak to members of their own family. Their hearts are empty of God, and they love sulking more than they love God.

Paul Uncovers Unrighteousness

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18). When you don’t live according to the Spirit of truth, you hold the truth in unrighteousness. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Romans 1:21). There is no darkness in the light of the Holy Spirit.

Paul went on to explain more about unrighteousness saying, Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen (Romans 1:22-25).

The Bible says that homosexuality is unclean and dishonors the body, yet many today glorify it. Practicing homosexuality is a sin, and people will go to hell for doing that. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (Romans 1:26-28). Practicing homosexuals have reprobate minds that are depraved, vicious, unprincipled, excluded from salvation, lost in sin and rejected by God. That is what God thinks of practicing homosexuals.

Sin is being glorified today wherever you look, but no one with even one little sin will enter God’s Heaven. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity [evil]; whisperers [gossipers], Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable [cruel], unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1:29-32). These kinds of people are not going to Heaven unless they repent and let the Holy Spirit apply the blood of Jesus to their hearts. If you accept even one of these sins and have pleasure in it, you are worthy of death.

Sin Is Raging Today

Many Christians are afraid to stand up against sin. They have decided that things which were once considered immoral are now acceptable and that everyone is doing them. They wonder, “How could something be wrong that so many are indulging in?” Nevertheless, sin is still sin, and it is raging all around. We live in a time like those of Sodom and Gomorrah and the days of Noah. Jesus said, But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matthew 24:37).

The spirit of covetousness is all around us. People break into homes, and they rob and vandalize others. Our nation is filled with sin and darkness, and our schools and universities are no longer safe for decent children to attend. Some years ago, people thought they could educate the devil out of our kids and young people; but after spending billions of dollars on education, things are worse today than ever. Education cannot take the devil out of people; only the blood that stained the Old Rugged Cross can do that. The Holy Spirit is grieved by the darkness in men’s hearts.

How can you keep from grieving the Holy Spirit? This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law (Galatians 5:16-18). When you are born again and led by the Holy Spirit, you are under grace, not the Law of Moses.

Beware of the Works of the Flesh

Many people don’t know what the works of the flesh are, but the Bible says, Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19-21).

Adultery: A married person having sexual intercourse outside the marriage. You cannot fulfill the lust of the flesh and walk in the Holy Spirit.

Fornication: Intercourse without first being joined together in holy matrimony; any unlawful sexual intercourse. This includes couples living together without being married, common law marriages and one-night stands. If you allow a son or daughter to share a bed with a lover in your own home, you grieve the Holy Spirit. You are putting your approval on it, and you are in trouble.

Uncleanness: Anything in your life that is filthy, vile, obscene or morally impure. Uncleanness is seen much today, even among so-called Christians. Anyone with uncleanness in his life does not have the presence or the holiness of God. Unless there is a change, that soul will go to hell. To be clean before God is the only way to live. To be unclean is a fearful thing.

Lasciviousness: Expressing lust or exciting lustful desires. Lust is a way of life with many people. Men, women, boys and girls all wear revealing clothing that incites lust; and those people wouldn’t be displaying their bodies if they didn’t want to be looked at and desired. Be careful how you dress. The Bible tells women to adorn themselves in modest apparel (I Timothy 2:9). When people dress to tantalize others, show nudity, use their bodies to stir desire in others and entice them, God is displeased. Holy people do not flaunt themselves in a lascivious manner or present themselves in such a way as to draw lust. Lasciviousness is damnable and sinful.

Idolatry: Excessive devotion to some person or thing; not putting God first. Putting husband, wife, loved ones, wealth or anything before God can be classified as idolatry. God said, Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Exodus 20:3). God intended us to love and worship Him first with our whole heart and soul.

Witchcraft: Black magic, sorcery, giving over to the supernatural powers of the devil, the practice of witching. Witches are not Christlike at all, and their witchcraft is done through the devil’s power. Witches receive supernatural powers through contact with evil spirits.

Astrology is included in this category; and if you rush to check the daily astrology columns, you are playing with the devil. Your day is not written in the stars; it is written in the Word of the living God.

If you walk with God, He said He would give you peace. If you obey Him and keep your mind on Him, He will supply your needs. Isaiah tells us that astrologers, stargazers and monthly prognosticators shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame (Isaiah 47:14). No one can help you when they are burned up.

Babylon was a wicked and devilish kingdom, and it had astrologers and soothsayers. People in that kingdom turned to astrology instead of God. They lived in lust and practiced ungodly and unholy ways, and many people in America are walking the same path today. The cost then was death, and it is the same today. If you want to know your future, look into the Bible. The end-time hour is clearly laid out for all to see.

Hatred: A strong dislike or ill will for another. Do you dislike someone to the extent that you despise his soul? If he is ungodly, God hates his ways; and you can hate his ungodly ways, but would you pray for his soul if you had the chance to hold him out of hell? Would you try to rescue him, or would an awful spirit within tell you he deserves hell?

If you want a person to go to hell even though he still has a chance for Heaven, that is hatred and not the love of God. You may not like certain people, but you must love their souls as long as there is a chance that they might receive Christ.

Variance: Disagreement, disputing, quarreling or changeableness. Do you argue with your mate or anyone else? If so, that is devilish. Arguing is not healthy, as some would have you believe. It does not make you like Jesus; it makes you like the devil. You will not get to Heaven unless you are holy and pure.

Where is God’s love in arguing? Bickering and not being able to get along with others are of the flesh and the devil. If you and your mate bicker, you must pray for God to change you. Out of all the people you have ever met, you chose that person to spend your life with; and then you argue. Did you get married to make each other unhappy and miserable? If you argue before you are married, it is a good sign your marriage will be a disaster. Why would you want to marry someone you can’t get along with?

Now, God doesn’t expect you to remain in an abusive relationship that leaves you living in fear for your safety or the safety of your children. Under those circumstances, you would be free to divorce; but unless that person commits adultery, you would not be free to remarry.

God intended for His love to be in marriages, and the Holy Spirit will teach you how to love each other as you yield to Him. The Bible tells us to love even our enemies, so how much more should we love our friends and family? Would you continue arguing with your mate if Jesus walked into the room? Well, if Jesus is in your heart, He is in the room; yet there you are arguing and grieving the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit of God does not endorse being disagreeable, and it is not the work of God or the Holy Spirit. The Lord said you are to be perfect in love, and God ordained marriage to be full of love. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh (Mark 10:7,8). It is ridiculous for those who are to be one flesh to battle with the other part of itself. When you don’t get along, you are not pleasing God.

Emulations: Envy or trying to compete with others because you are resentful and jealous. The Lord is displeased with such behavior.

Wrath: Intense anger, punishment carried out in a rage, fury, vengeance or trying to even the score. If wrath is a part of your personality, you are not right with God. Only the spirit of the devil tries to even the score. Jesus said to pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:44).

Strife: Contention with another, conflict or not getting along with your brothers and sisters in Christ. There will be no strife in the Bride and no strife among her members to prevent her from doing God’s perfect work in this final hour.

Seditions: Rebellion, stirring up discontent or trying to involve others in a conflict over some real or imagined cause. Many people have been deceived into building their life’s work around a cause that has nothing to do with God’s true Word. They thought being totally captivated by a cause and pouring all their energy and resources into it would make them righteous; but without God, no man is righteous. The cause of the righteous is Jesus Christ and lost souls.

Do you feel worthy only when you are overreacting? Are you critical of others? Do you cause division? If so, God may love you; but He certainly doesn’t like what you are doing. If you continue, God will one day push you out of the way.

Heresy: Teaching in opposition to the Word of God. We have much heresy in the world today. Do you oppose any of the teachings in God’s Word? Do you prefer man’s doctrine over the Word of God? Do you listen to any false doctrine on the radio, television or Internet because some of it sounds all right to you? If so, you are lending an ear to heresy; and it includes that which is devilish, destructive and will send souls to hell.

The Bible tells us to test the spirits. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world (I John 4:1).

If you think you don’t need the Holy Ghost in this hour to prepare you for the Rapture, false doctrine is in your heart; and it will cause you to doubt God’s Word. Check the Word of God thoroughly with an open mind, and find out what it says. One thing it says is that receiving the Holy Ghost is a commandment of Jesus. And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:4,5). How can you expect to get by if you are disobedient to the Lord in this last hour?

Envyings: Feelings of ill will and discontent because of another’s advantages, possessions or blessings. Do you envy others, or are you glad when they are blessed?

Murderers: Those who willfully kill another human being. You can see and hear reports of brutal murders over and over again in this last hour. People think the answer to their problems is to take the life of another, but that is the devil’s answer.

Drunkenness: Intoxicating drinks flow freely in America and all over the world, and drunk drivers kill many people each year. Alcoholism is called a disease, but it is devil possession. When a person is delivered from the devils of alcohol, that person no longer craves alcohol. The Bible says, Abstain from all appearance of evil (I Thessalonians 5:22). Drinking and being a Christian do not mix.

Revellings: Wild parties, boisterous good times or taking much delight in being wild; to make noise or rebel. Many people revel in sports and exclude God. Sports become their god and the focus of all their attention.

Abstain from All Works of Evil

Those who indulge in even one of the seventeen works of the flesh and don’t repent will never see Heaven. Read this passage again: Now the works of the flesh are manifest…of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:19,21).

The works of the flesh drive the presence of God right out of your life; so be careful what you give your spirit over to, where you go, what you watch, what you listen to, what you read and what you say. In this last hour, many people have an outlook that differs from that of the Holy Word of God. They rationalize their works of the flesh by saying, “God didn’t really mean His Word for this hour; but they are deceiving themselves. They are out of the presence of God and out of His will.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it (I Thessalonians 5:15-24).

God is showing us His great mysteries of holiness, of the blood and of the Holy Spirit. He is also showing us how they will work in a human life to make it pure, clean and fit for Heaven. He tells us what to abstain from and what grieves the Holy Spirit.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord, I am your God; and I am holy. The unclean, the unholy will not walk with me, and they will never live in my Heaven. Many have been deceived by doctrines of devils, and many more will be deceived. This is the hour of great deceit that I have warned you about in my Holy Scriptures, and I told you this hour would come. There cannot be any deceit in my children, not a tiny particle of deceit, saith the Lord, in my children.

My children will be pure; my children will see God. My children will walk hand in hand with their Lord; and just clean hands will be in the hands of the Lord of Heaven, saith the Spirit. Walk in the ways of the Lord thy God. An unbelievable price has been paid for you to have my Holy Word. I paid a supreme price when I gave you my Son, when the Word was made flesh and dwelt among men. I will not excuse you, not in one sin. I will not excuse you in any deceit. You must be holy and blameless before me to dwell in my presence and live in my presence as the eternal ages roll, saith the Lord.

Come to Jesus

Have you measured your life with the Word of God? If you don’t have Jesus, and your life is not yielded to the Lord, let me pray with you now: Oh, God, I have sinned against you. I am so sorry. Please forgive me. I will serve you, Lord, for the rest of my life. I believe your Word, and I love your Word. I love the blood of Jesus, and I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus. Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, you now can say, “Hallelujah! Jesus is mine!”

Accept a Miracle

If you are sick and afflicted, know that it is the Lord’s will for you to be healed. Jesus came for the healing of our bodies as well as the healing of our souls. With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). I am not your healer; God is the healer. I believe in the power of prayer, and I will believe the Lord for your healing or the healing of your child. Jesus said, If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 18:19).

Here they are, Lord. In the holy name of Jesus, I come with your gifts of healing and your gift of miracles for their deliverance. I curse the sickness and disease in their bodies in the name of the Lord just as Christ cursed the fig tree when He was here on Earth. Through the power of the Holy Ghost and in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the living God, heal! Heal! in the holy, mighty name of Jesus.

The healing power is now flowing. If you will be obedient and believe the Lord, that power will linger in your body for days to get you or your child well. Watch for all signs of improvement daily and be careful to praise the Lord for them. You who received salvation, start reading your Bible. Then go on to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and always remember not to grieve His Holy Spirit. This message must be preached throughout the whole Earth, and then the end will come.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord, my people are bowing while here on Earth and crying, “Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!” I delight in my people praising me. I will not be any more delighted when they are before my throne praising me than I am now. I love to hear my people praise me in a sin-cursed world. It pleases me to hear the praises of my people.

I delight in my people, and I always listen when my people, with a sincere heart, give praise unto me. My ears are open to the praise of my people, and I reward my people for their praises. I delight in them loving me, loving my truth and loving my light that is shining forth throughout the Earth in this last and final hour.

Oh, my people, I am delighted that you have turned from unrighteousness, and you have come into my righteousness. You have turned from that which is false, and you have come into my truth. I delight in your strength as you walk with me. I delight in your humility as you bow before me. I am pleased with your love and your faith that I have given to you, and to see you use it is my great delight.

As I see you walk in my faith, I know that victories, victories will be mine throughout the whole Earth. I know that you will gather in my harvest in this last and final hour. Yes, I delight in my true people. I delight in and love my true ones, and I am bringing you into all of my greatness. I am moving upon you with all of my love so that you will share it with a lost and dying world. Go forth, go forth with armfuls on purpose. Go forth, go forth with my message of deliverance and see the multitudes delivered through the power of my grace, through the power of Calvary and through my shed blood, saith the Lord.

In this last hour, the Bride of Christ, the pride of Heaven and the grace of God, will walk without spot, wrinkle or blemish. She will be holy and will not grieve the Holy Spirit, but she will be a holy terror to the devil. She will carry God’s love, faith and deliverance to the world in this last hour; and then the end will come.