{"id":10250,"date":"2018-06-07T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10250"},"modified":"2018-06-07T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:27:00","slug":"ephesians-430-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10250\/ephesians-430-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 4:30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What do you think it means to grieve the holy Spirit of God?\u00a0\u00a0In Ephesians 4:30, Paul says, \u201cAnd do not grieve the holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed until the day of redemption.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I suppose we can grieve the Spirit by not letting go of the behaviors, feelings, and thoughts that Paul says are contrary to being led by the Spirit. We know the God&#8217;s Spirit is life, not a holy being.\u00a0 So how is it that we can grieve &#8220;it&#8221;?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Michael\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Michael.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>We grieve the holy Spirit by making Jesus sad.\u00a0 In this case, what Paul wrote to the Corinthians applies: \u201cThe Lord is the Spirit\u201d (2Cor.\u00a03:17).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0\u00a0 What do you think it means to grieve the holy Spirit of God?\u00a0\u00a0In Ephesians 4:30, Paul says, \u201cAnd do not grieve the holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed until the day of redemption.\u201d\u00a0 I suppose we can grieve the Spirit by not letting go of the behaviors, feelings, and thoughts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}