The promised blessing
for honoring a covenant is that we may always have
His Spirit to be with us. Precisely because
the promised blessing is that we may always have
His Spirit to be with us, we should attend to and learn
from the choices and influences that separate us
from the Holy Spirit. The standard is clear. If something we think, see,
hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we
should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is
intended to entertain, for example, alienates
us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of
entertainment is not for us. Because the Spirit cannot abide
that which is vulgar, crude, or immodest, then clearly
such things are not for us. Because we estrange
the Spirit of the Lord when we engage in activities
we know we should shun, then such things
definitely are not for us.