Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - What does it mean to resist the Holy Ghost? • followHIM Favorites • July 10 - July 16

Episode Date: July 6, 2023

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Hello, my friends. Welcome to another follow him favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the incredible John by the way. Welcome, John. Thank you, Hank. You know the drill today. We take on one question from this week's Come Follow Me Lesson. And the question we're looking at today comes from Acts chapter seven. There's a moment where Stephen says to the people who are about to kill him, he says, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you do always resist the Holy Ghost.

And the comforme manual has this question. What do you think it means to resist the Holy Ghost? Ah, such a good question. I put in my margin, first Thessalonians 5.19, where Paul says, quench, not the spirit. You've got this spirit and you dump cold water on it. You resist the Holy Ghost. And one of my favorite little analogies I heard

way back when Elder Bruce Armaconky said, we come into these congregations. Sometimes the speaker brings a jug of living water that has in it many gallons, and he pours it out on the congregation, and all the members brought was a single cup, and that's all they took away. And then he said this,

or maybe they put their hands over the cup, and they didn't get anything to speak up. I thought, why would you put your hand over the cup? To me, that's an example of resisting the Holy Ghost This could make me uncomfortable because I know I need to do better in this area So I'm gonna resist that is that what you think that means? I think you're right on there John it reminds me of amuleck in Almuch chapter 10 verse 6 He says I did harden my heart I was called many times and I would not hear like you said I put my hand right over the cup

It might be easy for someone today to just zone out on their phone. That would be a way to resist the Holy Ghost, right? I'm not paying attention. I go to church and I'm on my phone for two hours and I go home thinking, well, I didn't give me much. Well, actually, you are the one resisting the Holy Ghost. that actually you are the one resisting the Holy Ghost. I'll bet many times this is a seminary teacher you've had. A really nice moment is coming or feeling and somebody wants to spoil it. You think, don't do that. That's just a great moment.

And sometimes I wonder if that could mean the same thing. So good counsel. Don't resist it. This is the best friend you could possibly have is the Holy Ghost. And right here in chapter seven, they resist the Holy Ghost, they had crucified the Savior, they now kill Stephen. You don't want to resist the Spirit over and over and over and you might get to a place where you're doing things you never thought you'd do.

You would never do that. Holy Ghost would try to warn you against. So boy, and then the moment the Spirit acts, the president of Monson's strength, he'd get a prompting and he would just do it. I need to be more like that. He would act, he wouldn't resist. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcasts. We're with Dr. Casey Griffiths this week. You'll love what he has to say about these chapters. And then join us back here for another Follow Him Favents.