Paul said to the church at Thessalonica, “Quench not the Spirit.” That word quench means “to put out.” Some of you worked in the yard yesterday like I did. You were watering the yard and wanted to move the water hose from one flowerbed to another. You didn’t want to go back to the house and cut the water off at the faucet, so you just quenched the flow of that water by bending the hose. The Holy Spirit in you can be quenched the same way. Paul wrote to say, “Quench not the Spirit.” The Spirit is like a fire, and that fire can be put out.
