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1 | Filled with the holy spirit? | Mark 1:10 | Ray | 149195 | ||
Hi Angel, I would suppose that you left out a "don't" and meant to say that "I DON'T understand how you would opt to pencil in the text." May I say that I don't have any problem with the Scriptures that say that Christ is in us or that His Spirit indwells us. See Ephesians 3:16,17. But the "fulness of God" is being filled with knowledge and knowing the love of Christ. Grace and truth was given to us and He gives gifts to men. The Spirit fills us with all these things "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fulness of Christ,..." Ephesians 4:13. Ephesians 5:18, "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the *spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; 20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;" The Spirit of sanctification: Ephesians 3:25, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her; 26 that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,..." 1) So I would say that we are washed with the word. Jesus came from God and spoke the words of God. He gave the words (spirit) without measure; John 3:34. We would not be able to contain the Spirit if given to us without measure; but we are given all things and washed with His words. 2) There is a difference between being "indwelt with His Spirit" and being "filled with the spirit". From the heart, Ray |
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2 | Filled with the holy spirit? | Mark 1:10 | JCrichton | 149223 | ||
Hi, Ray! There was no oversight... I could also understand how you see indweling of the Holy Spirit and being filled with the holy spirit as something that is determined by an action not who is doing the act... We can never contain God in our limited being... but when we read Genesis we find that man was created in the image and likeness of God, and that, as no other being, God gave life to man by an influx of His Spirit... We also learned from Scripture that Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to the Eleven prior to Pentecost... but that it was at the meeting during Pentecost that all of the gathered disciples received the Holy Spirit in a visible measure to let the world know that the prophecy in Joel was being fulfilled! ...each time, we are but simple vessels that cannot contain God... it is through His mercy that we receive, according to His design, an influx or indwelling of His Spirit! God Bless! Angel |
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