God Created You To Be A Home For The Holy Spirit

Keep Your Home Clean!

Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23). This sermon is an analogy. Most sermons about the Holy Spirit are about what the Holy Spirit does for us. This sermon is about what we should do for the Holy Spirit. We generally want our homes to extra clean and neat when we are expecting company. How much more should we want to keep our thoughts and actions spiritually clean and pure so we “do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God” (Ephesians 4:30).

Don Hooser is a minister for the United Church of God. He lives in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.  He and his wife Elsie had three children, and she died in August 2020.  Don married Judy in January 2022.  Mr. Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.  For most of the time since then, he served as the pastor of churches in Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. From 2011 until his retirement in 2021, his primary responsibility was answering the many letters written to the Church.