Christians and Grace – Is it possible to resist the Holy Spirit?
Jonah did – for a while – and see where it got him! But Jonah was God’s man at the time and did not cease to be so even during his rebellious stage. There’s a huge difference between resisting the Holy Spirit as a saved sinner and being unable to resist a sinful nature that is devoid of the Holy Spirit. God used Jonah’s eventual obedient preaching to move the Ninevites to repentace, so they were saved, as God had planned they would be. If humans resist God, then He will cause the very stones of the ground to accomplish His will (Mat 3:9). The answerer who quoted Mat 23:37 did not point out that Jesus was speaking in general of ‘Jerusalem’ as symbolising God’s covenant people who failed to recognise the day of their inspection. Yet many of those people became Christians later (e.g. on that amazing day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit moved amongst thousands) Those who stubbornly continued to resist the One who came to save them died physically in 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was sacked but w
