Review (38): It’s a Wonderful Life: Corporate Marriage: The Bitterness Factor: Demon Influence, Eph 4:27; Grieving the Holy Spirit, Eph 4:30

Se Diagram: “Top and Bottom Circles”:
http://www.berachah.org/topand.htm

Ephesians 4:27 -	Stop giving the devil a chance to exert his influence.
1.	Satanic influence seeks to destroy every marriage.  The tactic in context utilizes the chronic mental attitude of bitterness to inspire verbal vituperations expressed by brawling, slander, and malice.
2.	A believer out of fellowship carries out this entire operation in the cosmic system.  If order is to be restored then both the man and the wife must put a stop to this status quo.
Ephesians 4:30 -	Stop grieving the Holy Spirit, the God by whom you have been sealed to the day of redemption.
1.	Sins from the emotional and arrogance complexes enter the believer into the cosmic system, placing him out of fellowship with God and breaking the power of the Holy Spirit over his life.
2.	The spiritual life of the Church Age and the fulfillment of the purpose of the Christian marriage are dependent upon the filling of the Holy Spirit.
3.	Thus, sin grieves the Holy Spirit since He can no longer empower the believer’s life towards the ends of glorifying God and achieving the conveyance of escrow blessings.
4.	Refusal or failure to rebound prolongs one’s stay in status quo carnality and therefore quenches the Holy Spirit’s ability to direct the believer’s advance in the execution of the plan of God for his life.

5.	The recovery system involves the termination of sinful behavior through rebound and resumption of the spiritual life.  This is the sequence mandated in the final two verses:
Ephesians 4:31 -	All bitterness both operational anger   and motivational anger, both brawling and slander, must be removed from all of you along with all evil speaking, specifically, malice.