Psalms 51:11

"Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me." Now, here is a good example of rightly dividing Scripture. Does that apply to us today?

Do you and I even have the right to say something like that? I'm not tricking you. NO! No! God can't take the Holy Spirit from us once He's been given, because we have that kind of assurance that David himself didn't have. The Holy Spirit's modus operandi all the way up through the Old Testament was: He could come upon somebody and leave them. My best example of that is Samson. When the Holy Spirit was upon Samson, what could he do? Well, the impossible. But when old Delilah wiggled it out of him, what happened? The Holy Spirit left. And what was Samson? No more than any other Jew in Israel. But when the Holy Spirit came back upon him, he was able to pull down the temple.