Grieve Not the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:25-32

If we really accept the Biblical teaching concerning the personality of the Holy Spirit of God, we will not have any great trouble attributing the characteristics of personality to Him. The Bible teaches that He is a person and that He is subject to many of the same feelings and emotions common to personality. The passage before has some very solemn things to say out our treatment of the personality of the Holy Spirit. Read: v17-19

In context of Paul's discussion of our relation to the former life. We see a list of put-on / put-off principles.

Now, grieve not the Holy Spirit...

I. An Unpleasant Possibility "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. . .

II. A Particular Aspect: Let us look at the last of the above list - disordered interpersonal relationships:

III. A Serious Result

IV. A Suggested Solution