* Will God remove HIS Spirit, The Holy Spirit, from an individual?

Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

God set up "judges" to deliver HIS people from the enemy.  But the people wanted a king to rule them so God gave them a king, Saul.

But Saul would not fully obey God.

So God removed Saul and set up another king.

The prophet Samuel greatly grieved over Saul.

God said to Samuel:

I Samuel 16:1  How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided ME a king among his sons.

vv. 13-14    Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

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Here is a New Testament teaching:

The apostle Paul says to the church:

II Corinthians 13:5   Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

I have often done this instruction given by Paul, examining myself to see the last time the Holy Spirit spoke to me or led me in an instruction.

I would pray asking God to remind me.  After I prayed, I would be reminded of something that I knew to be the Holy Spirit speaking in me to show me something and when I was reminded I knew the Holy Spirit was still in me doing the work of God.

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Psalm 51:10-12   David prayed:  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from THY presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.  Restore unto me the joy of  Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free spirit.

David had committed fornication with Bathsheba, Uriah's wife.

II Samuel 11:1-5    And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.  And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 

And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

So David is going to arrange it where it will appear that Uriah is father of the child.

vv.  6-13   And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. 

However the real motive of David was to cover his own sins through Uriah by getting Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba so the child would appear to be the child of Uriah.

 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

David tries something else. 

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.

And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

None of those things David tried worked, so then David had Uriah put in the front line of his army where he would likely be killed and Uriah was killed.

vv. 14-15    And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.   And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

v. 17   And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

vv. 26-27    And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.  And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. 

Bathsheba had a child by David.

But God put a sentence upon David for these "hidden" sins. 

II Samuel 12:1-15    And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.  The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:  But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. 

And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:  And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. 

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;  And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. 

Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in HIS sight?

thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised ME, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.  

And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 

And Nathan departed unto his house. 

And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

David fasted and prayed that the child be spared but God killed the child.

vv. 22-24   David said:   While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

But the sword never departed from David's house and his own son arose against David before all and fought against David and brought much grief to David.  And when Absalom was killed, the grief upon David was great.

There is a penalty for sins.

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People in the NT church today  often want to think all sins are without penalty and they often say, "Don't be concerned ... those sins are 'under the blood' ..."

Is that all there is to it?

I know a woman who had an abortion.  Even after she was born again, her grief was great over killing her child.  

I did tell her she needed to enter into rest through the blood of Jesus.  I know I often think of sins I committed before and even after I was born again.  I refuse to dwell on those bad memories.  There is nothing I can do about them now.  But I can make myself think on the blood of Jesus.  And I can rejoice in my salvation that God caused to come to me through Jesus, the Word, and through the shed blood of Jesus which paid for my sins.

I can thank God that HE still gave me HIS Spirit.

I also know God can turn us over to a reprobate mind if we refuse to repent when we commit sins and if we continue in hardhearted, stubborn ways.

Romans 1:28-32    And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

And if we continue without repentance after sins, I believe God can remove HIS Holy Spirit from us.

If the Holy Spirit, who convinces us of sins, is removed, then how could we be convicted of our sins and repent?  We would continue in unrepentant sins until the day of judgment and then see our sins ... but then it would be too late for us.

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