The grief of unbelief

A word of Wisdom
On The grief of unbelief

Hebrews 3:10,12 KJV
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said,
They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

[12] Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

In the generation of the people of God in Exodus, the unbelief is in the Word of God through Moses regarding the Promised Land, thus departing from the living God.

Now, what is the err of the heart of this generation that grieved the Holy Ghost?

It is the unbelief in the Word of God regarding the Promise of the Father, the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 1:4-5,8 KJV
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.

[5] For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be BAPTIZED WITH HOLY GHOST not many days hence.

[8] But ye shall receive POWER, AFTER that the HOLY GHOST is COME UPON you:
and YE SHALL BE WITNESSES unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The Word of God, Jesus Christ Himself had stated it plainly:

The fulfillment of the Promise of the Father is to be Baptized with the Holy Ghost!

And He even emphasized to us the manner and fruit of being baptized with the Holy Ghost,
which is:
The Holy Ghost shall come upon us;
And we shall receive power;
And we shall be witnesses onto Him by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Many of this generation simply chose unbelief, in that,
they errorneously presume:
The promise of the Father, the gift of the Holy Ghost is automatically present and indwelling upon conversion or upon being water baptized or upon being born again in the Spirit.

Did He not say that being born in the Spirit comes in an unexpected manner like the wind?

John 3:8 KJV
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

But the Jesus clearly and plainly told the disciples who are already born again in Spirit that they are to desire and to WAIT to receive the promise of the Father by the Baptism with the Holy Ghost to come upon them.

Hebrews 3:17-19 KJV
But with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
[18] And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not?
[19] So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

How long, how long are we going to continue to sin in unbelief and grieve the Holy Ghost?

Just as those who grieved God for forty years in the wilderness, not being able to enter into His rest,
So are we who sin in such unbelief not to thirst for, not to ask for, to receive the promise of the Father that we may enter into His rest.

Therefore, in such a generation:
Is it any wonder that with so much unbelief in the need or even the validity for the Baptism with the Holy Ghost,
so few have received it?

Is it any wonder that such do not believe nor have any understanding in the speaking in an unknown tongue both as the evidence of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost and the gift of divers kinds of tongues and the gift of interpretation of tongues?

Is it any wonder that so few walked in the power of the Holy Ghost?

Is it any wonder that so few have been filled with the zeal to witness onto Christ onto the uttermost part of the earth, if even at all?

Mark 16:17-18 KJV
And these signs shall follow them that believe;
In my name shall they cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues;
[18] They shall take up serpents;
and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Without the Baptism with the Holy Ghost and power that allows the Holy Ghost to indwell and work in us as His temple,
to teach and guide us directly,
And,
With such a heart of unbelief even in Jesus' own words regarding His Great Commission to us and the signs to "them that believe",
Is it any wonder that we are so powerless and no longer able nor willing to do any good works and even greater works that He had commanded us?

John 14:12 KJV
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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.

Is it any wonder that we do not cast out devils in His Name?
Is it any wonder that we do not speak with new tongues;?
Is it any wonder we have not the faith to take up serpents?
Is it any wonder we have not the faith that if we drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt us?
Is it any wonder that we no longer have the faith nor even know to lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover?

Mark 16:20 KJV
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Is it any wonder that in the preaching of this generation, the Lord does not seem to be working with them, in that, there is an absence of the power of the Holy Ghost, the Lord no longer confirming the word with signs following?

Alas! brethrens, grieve the Holy Ghost no more!
Repent of your unbelief and theological sophistications and excuses and self-justifications and traditions of man and rebellions!
Obey and follow Him according to what He had told us so plainly!

Mark 9:24 KJV
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears,
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

 

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