T. Snow: You said: “Filled with the Holy Spirit” … let’s define, at this point, the role of the word ‘filled’ here. I would suggest this word ‘filled’ refers to our words and actions being “influenced by” the Holy Spirit. Thus, if we “grieve” Him [the Spirit], we are not, at that moment, Spirit filled. Rather, speaking and/or acting from the old self.

My comment:  The word "filled with the spirit of holy spirit" to me means that our human spirit as individuals are saturated with His own spirit-His Word.It is not like mixing gas and water for there is a dividing line between the mixed; but the rather it is like water and wine wherein the mixed is total with the taste of the water now turn a bit like the wine. And the more wine is poured into the water...the more that water now begins to turn into the wine.

To grieve the Holy Spirit is to refuse its leading...the spirit will lead us into all truths -GOD'S WORD IS TRUTH, and when we do not yield fully to the spirit of God...then the process of the renewal of our minds and hearts-are affected. Continues rejection of the leading will result into a SOUR MIXED and as the water begins to outdo the more the wine with continues pouring of water (human reasoning & thoughts)...later on the  the wine and its traces will be gone!

You said regarding the verse presented: Not sure why the New Covenant is mentioned here. Perhaps, because God speaks of a “new spirit”?
Christians benefit from this Covenant in receiving forgiveness and the reception of the Holy Spirit. Outside of that, it is clear this prophecy is future and regards Israel.

My comment: True believers in God is "ISRAEL"...Israel spiritually speaking. The verse talks in a dual sense as most prophecies do.It is about the literal descendants of Israel and those gentiles that have been or will be grafted into the COMMONWEALTH of Israel! They have one KIng Jesus Christ!

Romans 11:17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and ...
bible.cc/romans/11-17.htmAnd if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were .... Into this living tree the wild branch, the Gentile, is grafted among the living ...



You said: You referred to the Holy Spirit as an “it.” Perhaps this was/is a typo? But He [the Spirit] is a Person with all the attributes of personhood. T.

My comment: The spirit depicted as a "dove" is referred to as a "he" and also as an "it" in the scriptures!

John 14:17 But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. New Living Translation (©2007) He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive

Numbers 11:25 "And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it...

Question for you who think the Holy Spirit is a person:

1).Is the Holy spirit different from the Spirit of Truth?
2). Is the Holy Spirit as an individual different from the spirit of the Father and the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ?
3). Does the Holy Spirit have his own holy spirit if he is a person?

1 Corinthians 2: 13For what man knows the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him?Even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;
That we may know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches,
But which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.