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Do Not Quench the Spirit
(1Th5:19; Rev2:1-7)

God is holy.
He dwells in the holy place (Dt26:15) and does holy work and
He lets those who are holy enter the holy place and serve Him (He12:14; Rev21:3).

Faith is longing to be inspired by Him and
The life of this life is being filled with the Holy Spirit, that is, to not quench the Spirit, and doing holy work.

Quench means to extinguish or cool the fire and
If believers are not sustained by the fullness of the Holy Spirit, His works and gifts are quenched.

Since Adam, the ancestor of mankind, was deceived by the serpent in the Garden and sinned
All men became unclean and separated from the holy God (Ge3:4-6; Rm5:12)
Hellhound with the devil (Mt25:41).

God sent Moses to Egypt to deliver Israel out of their slavery,
To make them a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Ex19:6).
While they were commanded to be holy (Ex22:31)
Without the shedding of blood nothing was clean (He9:22).

The Holy Place of the sanctuary and all its vessels that God commanded Moses to make had
To be sprinkled with the blood of animals to be cleansed (He9:21, 10:1-4, 10)
But it was only a shadow until the true form comes, the perfect cleansing by eternal blood.

The lampstand and its cups on seven-branches were made of pure gold (Ex25:31-40) and
Clear oil of pressed olives was to be poured into them to give light before Jehovah (Lev24:1-4).
The priests were to keep the lamps burning from evening until morning,
Tending the oil and sparks with the wick trimmers and trays (Ex30:7-8)
For if the lamps went out, they would die (Lev10:1-2).

This lamp represents the gift Holy Spirit of the Old Testament,
The activities of angels who worked outside the human body for God’s work, such as with
Samson, David, John the Baptist, Elizabeth, Zechariah etc (Jdg15:14; Ps51:11; Lk1:15, 41, 67).
In spite of this, the fall of Israel came because of the corruption of the priests and the people
But the prophecy of God giving a new heart and a new spirit kept them in hope (Eze36:26).

Yeshua appeared and said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days” (Jn2:19),
Because through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would reveal that His body is the temple where the Holy Spirit dwells for
He is the holy One of God set apart and sent by the holy Father (Mk1:24; Jn10:36).
After receiving the Holy Spirit, He began His public life (Mt3:15; He9:8).

As He died, He said, “It is finished” (Jn19:30), and the veil in the Temple of Jerusalem tore (Mt27:51):
1) He offered up His life serving the Father on earthly sanctuary, and with His blood sanctified the heavenly
tabernacle, finishing His holy work (Jn10:17-18; He9:11-14, 24);
2) Destroyed the work of the unclean devil (Eze28:16; 1Jn3:8); and
3) Opened the way for the souls sanctified by His blood to serve God (He10:19-20).

His resurrection testified that He is holy (Ac2:27) and
He entered the true sanctuary, sat on the throne and eternally serves the Father (He8:1-2 9:24).
From there He sent the Counselor Holy Spirit (Ac2:1-4) who came
To the souls sanctified by His blood, God’s temple (1Co3:16).

The Counselor Holy Spirit is the person of God who does not leave and dwells inside (Jn14:16, 18).
Just as the wind cannot be seen but is controlled by it, so it is with being filled with the Spirit (Jn3:8):
1) One’s thoughts, heart, speech, and actions become holy (Gal5:22-24);
2) Doing the holy work of testifying Yeshua (Ac1:8, 4:29-31); and
3) The continuous pouring of various kinds of gifts and service (Ac2:4; 1Co12:4).

For the desire of the flesh contrary to the Spirit (Gal5:17),
When the work of the Spirit is quenched
By laziness, stinginess, drunkenness, disobedience, arrogance (Gal5:17-22; Eph5:18),
The lamp stand is removed, His inspiration and gifts cease and one’s zeal cools (Rev2:4-7), and
Ultimately, some even return to the world with their faith shipwrecked (1Ti19:-20).

But those who still have a spark of the Spirit, through prayer and mournful repentance (Ps51:7-11),
Discover their own problems and trim away the snuff,
Doing everything to keep their spirit and spiritual inspiration alive.

O Lord,
My soul! Make it as sensitive as a tender shoot so the anointing of the Spirit will never be quenched.
Please remove this heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh!
Help me trim away my laziness and carnal desires and
Let this small spark grow back to burning brightly once again. Amen.