Sermons

It always seems like we hit real challenging things when we get deep into Paul’s instructions. There’s a lot of stuff that is either hard to do or hard to understand – often both. In this passage, when we get to verse 19, we hit the first of several of those challenging bits. Over the years a lot has been written and said about what exactly Paul means by “quenching the Spirit”. I’m not sure that there has really been a definitive answer, but we need to explore what we do know.