What It Means to Be Filled With The Spirit

Series:  His Presence

Speaker: Jim Hammond

I.     A Promised GIFT

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

John 4:13-14

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”

John 7:38

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

II.     A Commanded RESPONSIBILITY

Ephesians 5:18

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:

When you are filled with the Spirit, you are filled with an overflowing supply of grace, everything you need for a good and beautiful life that pleases God.

Ephesians 4:30 (CSB)  

And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit…

Ephesians 5:18 (CSB)  

...but be filled by (Keep On Being) the Spirit:

III.     Receive ONCE and Be Filled REPEATED John 14:16-17

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.

Believers in Jesus have two “counselors” working together on their behalf.

1 John 2:1-2

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father — Jesus Christ the righteous one. He himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

Jesus is our advocate in Heaven.  

The Holy Spirit is Jesus’ advocate in us.

Questions to ask yourself:

Have I given Jesus the master key to every room of my life? 

Is he my guest, or my master?

Ephesians 5:18

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:

The Spirit bids us cease from trying to get peace by our efforts, and to come to Jesus as a sinner and rest in what He has done. As we do so, the burden of striving and self-reproach slips away from our hearts, and the Comforter whispers peace to our hearts....      We are not merely on the winning side, but on the side that has already won; we do not fight for victory but from it.

Roy Hession,  Be Filled Now