" When we grieve the Holy Spirit, we push aside the One who is the agent to us of the work of Christ for our present life. On the basis of the finished, passive work of Christ—that is his suffering on the cross—and on the basis of the active obedience of Christ—that is, keeping the Law perfectly through his life—the fruits are there. They are there to flow out through the agency of the Holy Spirit through us into the external world. The fruits are normal; not to have them is not to have the Christian life which should be considered usual. there are oceans of grace which wait. Orchard upon orchard waits, vineyard upon vineyard of fruit waits. There is only one reason why they do not flow out through the Christian’s life and that is that the instrumentality of faith is not being used. This is to quench the Holy Spirit…and we sin by omission because we have not raised the empty hands of faith for the gift that is there. "