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1 | Filled with the holy spirit? | John 14:16 | Jessyka | 138142 | ||
I am a new Christian and I have A LOT of questions as you can imagine. One question is What is the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit and how can I know if this has happened to me? Can you give me some verses to look at as well please? | ||||||
2 | Filled with the holy spirit? | John 14:16 | Emmaus | 138143 | ||
Jessyka, I am taking the liberty of reposting someting written by Kalos, a long time member on the forum. what is baptized in the Holy Spirit Answer John 14:16 kalos Mon 04/2/01,1:04pm 1) Upon salvation we are baptized (placed) into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit(1 Cor 12:13). 2) Also, at the time of our salvation, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:9). 3) We must realize that those first disciples did not receive the Holy Spirit until the Day of Pentecost, because the Holy Spirit had not yet been given. . . . 4) Pentecost was a one-time, never to be repeated event in the history of the church. Now there is no need to wait or tarry to receive the indwelling Holy Spirit. This was only true of the first (pre-Pentecost) disciples/believers. . . . What exactly happened at Pentecost?" "The disciples did not actually receive the Holy Spirit until the day of Pentecost." Acts 2:4 *filled with the Holy Spirit.* "In contrast to the baptism with the Spirit, which is the one-time act by which God places believers into His Body (1 Cor 12:13), the filling is a repeated reality of Spirit-controlled behavior that God commands believers to maintain. Peter and many others in Acts 2 were filled with the Spirit again (e.g., Acts 4:8,31; 6:5; 7:55) and so spoke boldly the Word of God. The fullness of the Spirit affects all areas of life, not just speaking boldy (compare Eph 5:19-33)" (p. 1635, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997). . . . To be "filled with" the Spirit means to be "controlled and empowered by" the Spirit. . . . I might add that while all believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:9 "...Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."), it is obvious that not all believers at all times are *filled* (controlled and empowered) by the Spirit. |
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3 | Filled with the holy spirit? | John 14:16 | Jessyka | 138148 | ||
Thank you very much. | ||||||