Deny the Holy Ghost

“If your spirit has become sanctified, and you have received the presence of both the Father and the Son such that you (as Joseph described it) stand in the ‘noon-day sun’ in your understanding, then you have received the Holy Spirit of Promise. This means that your own spirit reflects the promise of eternal life. You are then a Spirit of Promise, assured of eternal life. Then denying the Holy Ghost, as Joseph described it, involves taking what has become sacred within you and polluting it with deliberate rejection of the God you have received and who now dwells within you.”¹ “Denying the Holy Ghost is not doing something you know to be wrong while the spirit is counseling you not to do so, because people will do that for a whole host of reasons, some of which may include the desire to try and achieve a good end by doing something that they know to be off the mark, in the hopes that it’ll work out. Denying the Holy Ghost means that you come out in outright rebellion against God, that you are committed to a contrary course. You are working at cross-purposes to God’s purposes and you’re doing so deliberately with the intent that you’re trying to overthrow the kingdom of God.”²