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Do you know you can grieve the Holy Spirit? 

You know how the Holy Spirit can be grieved?

It's right here:

Ephesians 4:30-32
30   And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 
31   Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 
32   And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. 

The word "grieve" is lupeo in Greek and it means to make sorrowful, to affect with sadness, throw into sorrow, to make one uneasy, to distress, to be in heaviness, to cause mental torture.

Amazing isn't it? That the Holy Spirit can be grieved. How do we do that?

Walking in BITTERNESS (bitter hatred, extreme wickedness, indignation), WRATH (fierceness, bad temper, rage), ANGER (resentment, animosity, vengeance, violent passion), CLAMOR (quarreling, contention), EVIL SPEAKING (speaking words that hurt people, saying bad things about people to make them look bad before others) and MALICE (desire to hurt and injure people, wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws, evil, naughtiness, causing trouble). 

This saddens the Holy Spirit and causes Him mental torture. Genuinely no believer will want to grieve the Holy Spirit but it's unfortunate that we do in our actions. Message translation says in vrs 30:

Don't grieve God. Don't break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don't take such a gift for granted.

This is how the amplified puts it in vrs 31

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath (passion, rage, bad temper) and resentment (anger, animosity) and quarreling (brawling, clamor, contention) and slander (evil-speaking, abusive or blasphemous language) be banished from you, with all malice (spite, ill will, or baseness of any kind).

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