I know there is mention of grieving the Holy Spirit

but I remember a grandmother saying "you are making Jesus so sad" when we misbehaved.
And I have heard other things like that in sappy songs or testimonies.
I wonder if we could possibly have that ability.

So
given that we can't do anything that comes as a surprise to Him...what do you think, can our behavior "break His Heart".

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
You know what my main problem is? I start things but rarely finish anyth...

Strictly speaking: no.

Figuratively speaking: sure, but it's a lame analogy. I prefer the one which states that we make Him smoke like a furnace. A little less sentimental, but it gets the judicial point across.

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Adam B., Wine Country, California, PCA

"I fear not to hold with Junius, de Politia Mosis cap. 6, that he who was punishable by death under that Judicial law, is punishable by death still; and he who was not punished by death then, is not to be punished by death now."

no

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sarah
WI
OPC
My Pastor's Sermons: Mark Jenkins...he's awesome!!!

I don't believe so. I am newly reformed. SO bear with me.
But my perspective has changed on how God interacts with his people. I got saved in the Methodist Church, but since that time, my understanding of God's nature has changed. I'd say that God does not experience emotions as we do.

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Todd
18 Mile Baptist
La Grange, KY

Not in the same way we feel and experience it.

Way to weigh in without elaborating huh?

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Ewen
1689 LBCF
Assemblies of God Bible College
Singapore

It is certain that God does not experience emotion in the way that we do. We experience emotion within a particular relationship to time and duration; God's foretelling capacity argues that whatever his experience of emotivity is, it is not experienced within time as we know it. Therefore we may not presume that God experiences emotions in the same way we do. I don't see how anyone can specifically define what God's emotivity does or does not entail until they can show exactly how God relates to time.

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In Christ's love and service

Mr. Tim Cunningham,
BMus. (Trombone Performance), University of Toronto
Dip. CS, Regent College, Vancouver
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC
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"I once sat in darkness, and waited for the moon to rise.
I once sat in darkness, and waited for the son to shine.
I once sat in darkness, when all the light I'd waited for was gone.
Then Jesus came, and now the only true light, ever, shines in me."
– John Deacon -

Define "break his heart". The question rests upon that definition.

If we define it as simply "make him sad", then yes, I think the Bible describes our sin as causing him sadness.

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

God does not change - He passes through no varying emotional conditions. So no, you can't break His heart, but His actions towards you may alter, as is appropriate to your condition, in a way that resembles what a heart-broken man would do (e.g., implore you to change your mind).

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Ruben
Moderator
F.P.C.I.
Indiana

Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
John Donne

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