Blessed is the Kingdom

Seeking The Kingdom In All Things

Are Christians Rejecting the Holy Spirit?

The renowned Puritan preacher, John Owen (1616-83), wrote prolifically on the person and work of the Holy Spirit. In his discourse “On the Holy Spirit” (1674) there occurs a remarkable passage in which he states: “The sin of despising (the person of the Holy Spirit) and rejecting His work now is the same nature with idolatry of old, and with the Jews’ rejection of the person of the Son. In plain terms, John Owen tells us that if the sin of Old Testament times was the rejection of God the Father, and the sin of New Testament times was the rejection of God the Son, then the sin of our times is the rejection of God the Holy Spirit. (from Anointed Expository Preaching by Stephen & David Olford)

Related Posts:

Tags: , , , , , ,


This entry was posted by on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 1:06 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

About The Author

Fr. Christian is the pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Lenoir City, TN.

Comments

  • Gandolf

    Great POST.

  • mgalbaugh

    I don’t know… I’m catching some kind of Modalist vibe in that statement.  Or maybe an over-emphasis of the individuality of the Divine Persons to the detriment of their unity as one God, which is popular today, even among Catholics.  While this quote is certainly food for thought, a series on the paragraphs from the Catechism on the Trinity would be a real feast!

  • The Ironic Catholic

    I often say in my grad class that the reason the Catholic Church doesn’t have more vocations is that we are not raised to know the Holy Spirit.  How can you know God’s calling when you don’t know who God is?

    Harsh, but I stand by it.

  • http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com Fr. Christian Mathis

    Knowing who God is, and who He isn’t seems pretty important to me.

«     »