The speaker warns that gossip, sin, and ignoring the Holy Spirit's promptings grieve God. Delay in obeying the Spirit's leading counts as disobedience. Immediate action aligns you with God's will.
When you listen to that gossip instead of shutting it down, he grieves. That's why when you walk away from the conversation, you have this subtle guilt hovering about your head, feeling like something just wasn't quite right. When you allow for the cravings of the sinful nature to overtake you and you partake in what you know is sinful, he grieves because it's not what God has for you. When the Holy Spirit tells you time and time again to do something, to go somewhere, to give something, to say something, and you withhold for the fear of man, you withhold because you don't understand the instruction completely, you grieve him because of the compromise. How many times have you heard Christians say things like, well, you know, the Holy Spirit has been dealing with me the past few months and he's been speaking to my heart, and you know, I just— I know he's saying it and I'm just kind of struggling here. My friend, once you know the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, delay is disobedience.
