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RAGING WIND

C. I. Scofield

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Introduction
The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person
The Holy Spirit before and after Pentecost
The Holy Spirit before and after Pentecost (cont.)
Filled with the Holy Spirit
It is essential to be filled with the Holy Spirit
 Introduction
We are experiencing a great interest in the Person and the work of
Holy Spirit. More books, pamphlets, and have been written and published.
treaties on this topic in the last eighty years than since the
invention of the press.
In fact, over the last twenty years, more has been written and
talked more about this doctrine than in the eighteen hundred years
precedents.
Without a doubt, what has been taught according to the
Scriptures have been the divine response to the
False trendy mysticism: spiritism, theosophy, falsely
Christian Science and the denial of the supernatural by Christianity
modernist
Unfortunately, along with good there has been a lot of bad. Great
part of what has been written and said is, evidently, unbiblical;
another part, which does not deserve to receive such a harsh treatment, errs in
interpret the Scriptures. They assert things as true
simply because those who wrote them "felt" them.
Frequently, the Spirit has been placed in the position that
belongs to Christ. Believers have been led to carry out various works.
of faith in order to receive the Spirit. They are advised to pray, that
if they empty themselves, let them purify themselves, who die to themselves and
for the world.
Husbands and wives are taught to "die" one for the
End. Natural affection is labeled as idolatry. Various forms are instilled.
of asceticism and it is taught that they are conditions for the Spirit
be received in Your fullness.
Among the writers who have recently been writing about the Spirit
Saint, few are those who distinguish the dispensational aspects of
theme or that take into account the progressive development of doctrine
of the Holy Spirit and His work. In these studies, I intend to
present vital things with clarity and simplicity.
For now, it suffices to say that, regarding no other
scriptural doctrine, it is more necessary for us to understand its revelation
progressive. The writings we have referred to mix the
personal experience of the apostles as the focus of personal experience
of the current believer with the service and the operations of the Spirit in the past, in
recent past and in the present.
The fact that the apostles began as Jews according to the flesh,
becoming spiritual Jews (the true Israel of
God), passing, finally, like Christ (the annul stone), the stones
fundamentals of the Church, it seems to have been forgotten by most
two recent writers about the Holy Spirit. They speak of a new
Pentecost without reflecting that they could also speak with the same
property of new Christmases.
It should be quite evident, even to the most scholarly.
careless of the Scriptures who, in the same way as the Son of God
has been acting in this world since the beginning, but has made a
true Advent at Christmas, also the Holy Spirit, who had
has been acting in the world and in favor of the world since the beginning, in a certain
she made a true Advent of Pentecost.
Moreover, it is quite rare for us to find the relations of the Spirit.
properly associated with His ministry. In Scripture, this is
carefully discerned. The evident result of all this is that
many sincere children of God are in complete mental confusion
about this deeply vital topic and the danger is that, in its
tiredness and discouragement, many turn their backs on the doctrine of the Spirit
Saint, as thousands have set aside the study of biblical types and
the prophecies, sadly convinced that the truth is so
deeply hidden that there is no hope of being
to obtain a clear view regarding it.
Meanwhile, this writer is convinced that, even though many
the operations of the Spirit (such as His activity in the new birth)
are beyond human analysis and definition, the doctrine of His Person,
Your relationships and Your ministry are perfectly transparent.
The purpose, therefore, of this study is to establish the doctrine of
simple and biblical way. This is the reason that leads us to write. The
the reader, therefore, should not expect to find here a well-elaborated treatise
and much less than here to present or defend a theory. The author
wants to put in order the things that are now in such confusion and
confront the reader with their real privileges and responsibilities with
relation to the Holy Spirit that came to the world on the day of Pentecost with
purposes as defined as those that brought about, some thirty-three years
before Pentecost, the Divine Son to the world.

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 The Holy Spirit
is a Divine Person
The complete demonstration of this fundamental fact would require
to cite each passage of Scripture that refers in one way or another
another to the Holy Spirit, since each reference to Him affirms His
personality and Its Divinity.
It should be enough, however, for us to gather examples of these passages.
under certain titles.

1 - The Holy Spirit is a Person and not simply

an influence, emanation, manifestation, or force.

We affirm this as a result of the following considerations:

1 - The same words are used in relation to the Holy Spirit.
that indicate personality and that are used to talk about others
people.
The following verses are sufficient to serve as an example of this type
of passages and the reader may add others at their own expense:
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, so that
may be with you forever, the Spirit of truth, that the world does not
can receive, because he does not see Him, nor knows Him; you know Him because
He dwells with you and will be in you... But the Comforter, the Spirit
The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things
things and he will remind you of everything I have said to you" (John 14:16, 17,
26).
b -"I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away, because if I
if I do not go, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I
I will send you... However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will...
He will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but he will tell you everything.

whatever he hears, he will announce to you the things that are to come... Everything
what the Father has is Mine, that is why I said to you that He will receive from
What is Mine, I will announce to you" (John 16:7-8, 13-15).
It is written that men act in relation to the Holy Spirit.
in ways that would be impossible or absurd if He were not one
Person.
a -"They were rebellious and grieved His Holy Spirit by
who became an enemy to him, and he himself fought against them" (Isaiah
63.10).
 b -"That is why I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to
men; the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven” (Matthew
12.31).
And do not grieve the Spirit of God, with which you were sealed
for the day of redemption” (Ephesians 4:30).
Of how much severer punishment do you suppose will he be thought worthy
he who trampled the Son of God and profaned the blood of
covenant with which he was sanctified and outraged the Spirit of grace?
(Hebrews 10:29).
It is stated that the Holy Spirit carries out actions that would be
impossible if He were not a Person. As an illustration,
let's consider the following passages:
What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
"Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6).
b - “The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My
Name, He will teach you all things and remind you of everything
what I have told you" (John 14:26).
Then the Spirit said to Philip: Go near this chariot and
accompany him" (Acts 8:29).
While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him:
There are two men looking for you" (Acts 10:19).
While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said:
Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
"called" (Acts 13:2).
The Spirit similarly assists us in our
weakness, because we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the same
The Spirit intercedes for us with groans that cannot be expressed.
(Romans 8:26)
And as they traveled through the Phrygian-Galatian region, having been prevented by
Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, facing Mysia, they tried
"to go to Bithynia, but the Holy Spirit of Jesus did not allow him" (Acts
16.6-7).
Here the Spirit is presented to us as the active agent in the new.
birth of the believer; as teaching, renewing, guiding, speaking,
receiving, pointing, and giving active and specific indications in the service
of the saints and in their prayers. It would be hard to make it clearer.
the idea of personality.

The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person, He is all

Divinity.

Let us note the following:

 He is called God.
a -“After this, I heard the voice of the Lord saying: Whom shall I send?
And who will go for Us? I said: Here I am, send me.
he said: Go and tell this people: Hear, hear and do not understand; see, see,
but do not perceive” (Isaiah 6:8-9). “Having disagreement among them,
they said goodbye, saying Paul these words: The Spirit spoke well
Holy to your parents, through the prophet Isaiah: Go to this people and
He says to you: By ear, you will hear and not understand; seeing, you will see and not...
you will understand” (Acts 28:25-26).
The relationship between these two passages is evident. Isaiah says
who heard the voice of the Lord and Luke says it was the Holy Spirit. A
The whole truth is that God the Holy Spirit spoke.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will establish a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made
with your parents, on the day I took them by the hand to take them out of the land
from Egypt; because they annulled My covenant, yet I
to have married, says the Lord. This is the covenant that I will make with the house
from Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will imprint on their minds
I will also inscribe My laws in their hearts; I am their God.
and they shall be My people. No one will ever teach his neighbor,
not each one to his brother, says the Lord. For I will forgive their
I will never remember their iniquities and their sins (Jeremiah 31:31-
34). "The Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, for as much as,
after I have said: This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days,
says the Lord: I will put My laws in their hearts and on their
I will sign up the minds. Adds: Also in no way Me
I will remember your sins and your iniquities, forever.
(Hebrews 10:15-17)
c - 'And all of us with unveiled faces beholding as in a mirror'
mirror the glory of the Lord, we are transformed from glory to glory, in the
in His own image, as by the Lord, the Spirit” (2 Corinthians
3.18).
Then Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart?
heart, why did you lie to the Holy Spirit, keeping back part of the
value of the field? By preserving it, would it not be yours? And, sold,
Wouldn't it be in your power? How then did you set this in your heart?
design? You did not lie to men, but to God (Acts 5:3-4).
This statement is explicit: to lie to the Holy Spirit is to lie to
God.
2 - The Scriptures constantly attribute to the Holy Spirit the
attributes of God, such as omnipotence, omniscience, and also His
greater perfection: holiness.
 a - "Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Where shall I flee from Your presence?"
Your face? If I ascend to the heavens, there you are; if I make my bed in the depths...
deep abyss, there you are too; if I take the wings of dawn and me
I hold on at the edges of the seas, yet Your hand will still guide me there.
and Your right hand will sustain me” (Psalm 139:7-10).
But the earth was without form and empty; there was darkness over the
the face of the abyss and the Spirit of God hovered over the waters
(Genesis 1:2).
By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand formed the serpent.
twisted (Job 26:13 - Revised Version).
As it is written: Neither eye has seen, nor ear heard,
never has anything entered the human heart that God has prepared
for those who love Him. But God has revealed it to us through the Spirit;
for the Spirit searches all things, even the
depths of God. For who among men knows the things of
man, if not his own spirit that is within him? So also the
things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God” (1
Corinthians 2:9-11)
much more the blood of Christ who, through the eternal Spirit, to Himself
Even if He offered Himself without blemish to God, He will purify our conscience.
of dead works to serve the living God” (Hebrews 9:14).
3 - The Holy Spirit is presented as performing possible works
it is only to the Divinity.
This is presented in all the passages cited in the subtitle.
previously, to which we can add the following:
The Spirit of God made me and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
life" (Job 33:4).
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created and thus You renew the face
from the earth” (Psalm 104:30).
For the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus dwells in you.
among the dead, This same one who resurrected Christ Jesus from among the
He will also give life to your mortal bodies through His
Spirit that dwells in you" (Romans 8:11).
You were some of you, but you washed yourselves, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and in the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11).
For never has any prophecy been given by human will,
meanwhile holy men spoke from God as they were moved by the
Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21).
Brothers, it was necessary for the Scripture to be fulfilled which the Spirit...
Saint spoke earlier through the mouth of David, about Judas, who was
the guide of those who arrested Jesus" (Acts 1:16).
 When they take you to the synagogues and before governors and
authorities, do not worry about how you will respond,
nor concerning the things that you will have to speak. For the Holy Spirit will
He will teach you at that very hour the things you ought to say” (Acts 1:16).
h - "Take care of yourselves and of all the flock over which the Spirit...
Saint you appointed bishops, to shepherd the church of God, which
He bought it with His own blood" (Acts 20:28).
To one is given, through the Spirit, the word of wisdom; and to the
to another, according to the same Spirit, the word of knowledge; and to another,
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
to another, operations of miracles; to another, prophecy; and to another, operations of
miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to one
variety of languages; and to another, the ability to interpret them. But a
but the same Spirit accomplishes all these things, distributing them as
To each one, individually, as he wills” (1 Corinthians 12:8-11).
Without a doubt, it would be impossible to attribute to an influence
such defined and personal actions as these or to assume that someone, who
were inferior to the Divinity, could accomplish them.
In conclusion, we can affirm that more evidence may be found.
of the personality and of the Divinity of the Spirit in the fact that it is possible
to sin against him (Matthew 12:31), in the fact that it is equal in terms of
perfect unity with the Father and the Son in the words of baptism (Ma
your 28.19) and in seven notable passages from chapters two and three of
Apocalypse, where we are commanded: 'Listen to what the Spirit says to the church'
(2.7, 11, 17, 29; 3.6, 12, 22).
There is no biblical reason to believe in the Divinity of the Father and the
Son that does not apply, in the same way, to the Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit

before and after Pentecost
Every reader of the Bible notices that the doctrine of the Holy Spirit
it follows, like any other doctrine, a law of development
progressive. There is nothing in the Scripture that is not presented in
one single time. "First the leaf, then the ear, and finally, the grain in
"ear of grain". It is the divine method of revelation.
 If we look for the natural divisions of this progressive
unveiling the truth of the Spirit, we will find it in a way
so clear that it will be impossible to confuse them.
These divisions are:
1 - The Holy Spirit before the Incarnation of Christ.
2 - The Holy Spirit related to the Person and the ministry
of Christ, from the Incarnation to Pentecost.
3 - The Holy Spirit from Pentecost to the opening of the door
for the gentiles.
4 - The Holy Spirit in His current ministries and relationships,
as presented in the Epistles.
5 - The Holy Spirit (prophetically) in the future time of the Kingdom.
The purpose of this study is simply to outline the
development of the doctrine in the first four aspects of its
fifth order and make clear the distinctions that can prevent us
confusion of ideas.
FIRST - The Holy Spirit before the Incarnation.
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit is revealed as we already have.
state considered, as a Divine Person. As such, it is associated
with the work of Creation (Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; 32:8; 33:4; Psalm
104.30); age in favor of sinners (Genesis 6.3); illuminates the spirit of
man (Job 32:8; Proverbs 20:27); gives skill to the hand (Exodus 31:2-5);
concedes physical strength (Judges 14:6); qualifies the servants of God to
various ministries (Exodus 31:3; 35:21-31; Numbers 11:5-29; Judges
11.29; 1 Samuel 16.18; 2 Samuel 23.2)
This must be added to the operation of the Spirit so that the
men of the faith times of the Old Testament would be regenerated.
Although the doctrine is not explicitly taught in the Old
Testament (except in a prophetic way), our Lord said words that
they leave no doubt about this in John 3:5 and Luke 13:28.
How the new birth is essential to see and enter the Kingdom of
God (John 3:3, 5) and how the saints of the Old Testament are in this
Kingdom, it is concluded that they necessarily were born of the Spirit.
Meanwhile, as they were minors at that time, according to
Paul explains (Galatians 3:23-26) that they did not have the covering of the Spirit.
for the affiliation. They were minors, "under the guardianship of the law", but no longer.
subordinate to the aio.
We must also remember that for the saint of the Old Testament
no means had been revealed by which it could receive the
Holy Spirit. The ministries of the Spirit were reserved for the will
sovereign of God. He sent His Holy Spirit to whom He wanted.
The fact that the Spirit comes to a man is not proof that he was.
saved.
 Even a sincere believer did not have the assurance that the
The Spirit would not abandon him (Psalm 51:11), while the believer in this
the current dispensation we are in has the promise of permanence
in the Spirit.
SECOND - The Holy Spirit in relation to the Person and to the ministry
of Christ, from His conception to Pentecost.
The four gospels present the Spirit in relation to the Person and
to the ministry of Christ. Our Lord was conceived by the Holy Spirit;
he was filled with the Holy Spirit; after His baptism, he was led by Him.
In His power, He cast out demons and performed His works.
wonderful (Luke 1:15; 4:35; 3:21, 22; 4:1.18; Matthew 12:28). John
Baptist indicates that it is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and His
testimony is confirmed by Christ in His last message (Matthew
3.11; Acts 1,-5).
Furthermore, our Lord taught His disciples that they
they can also possess the Spirit. "Now, if you, being evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the
Holy Spirit to those who ask Him for it" (Luke 11:13).
We are so familiar with this passage that we do not
we notice the admiration it must have caused to His disciples.
Surely, they knew the prophecy of Joel, but it indicated an act
sovereign of God, regardless of any reference to prayer
or any other human condition. Up to this point, as we already have
As seen, there was no way for the man of faith to obtain the
Spirit.
In the times of the Old Testament, the Spirit would descend upon some.
men, as required by the service of God, and these cases were
rare, occasional, and exceptional. Everything was in the sovereign will of
God.
But now the disciples of the Lord receive the affirmation
extraordinary that any of them could receive the Spirit
Saint, as long as they asked for it. The privilege was too great to
your little faith. There is not only no evidence that any of the
disciples asked for or obtained the gift of the Spirit, but there is even
conclusive evidence that none of them did it. In the end of His
our Lord defined the Person, relationships and terrestrial ministry
ministries of the Spirit that would come.
1 - As they had not asked the Father to give them the Spirit,
He would do it. "I will ask the Father and He will give you another Comforter, so that
that he may be with you forever” (John 14:16). “But when he comes
Comforter, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth,
that He proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me” (John 15:26). “I will send you
I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away; unless I go away, the
The Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
"I will send" (John 16:7).
2 - The one who would come would be related to the believers of three.
ways. "He dwells with you and will be in you" (John 14:17). "Behold that
"I am sending you what my Father promised" (Luke 24:49). He who
you will be like men, convincing them of sin, converting them
we would be men, like a source of living water, of
purification, of renewal, of satisfaction; you would be over the men,
giving them gifts and power for service. He would be the Comforter, Guide,
Master and Revealer.
3 - As the Lord Jesus did not fully reveal the whole body
of spiritual truths, promised that the Spirit of truth
he would complete (John 16:13). Then, he went to the cross.
Starting names momo day of Your resurrection, in Your new
ministry, Christ fulfilled the promise made to His disciples: 'He will be
in you" (John 14:17). "And having said this, [on the same day of His
resurrection] breathed on them and said: Receive the Holy Spirit" (John
20.22). This means that they had not yet received Him. From Luke 11.13,
we learned that they had also not complained about the promise: "How much
but the Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him.
Christ showed them his hands and side as proof that the
redemption had been fully accomplished, as "firstfruits" (Romans
8.23) and the 'seal' (Ephesians 1:13) of this redemption, and granted the covering
of the Spirit to the men who believe in Him.
It was your privilege, as believers, now that the blood of atonement
it had been poured out, to receive the Spirit under no other condition.
It was 'the pledge of your inheritance' (Ephesians 1:14). The only condition
absolute on his part was the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This
communication or granting of the Spirit as clothing for the believer,
simply for being a true believer, marked the tremendous
transition from the era of the law to the era of grace.
But there was still another relationship of the Spirit, baptism, or the relationship
"open", through which these disciples had received the Spirit as
coating, they received the order to wait. "Behold, I send upon you
the promise of My Father; therefore remain in the city until you are empowered from on high

you will be clothed with power" (Luke 24:49).

For John truly baptized with water, but you will be
baptized with the Holy Spirit, not long after these days.
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be Mine.
witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and
to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:5, 8).
So he departed from them and began the "waiting time."
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The Holy Spirit

before and after Pentecost
(continued)

We have been considering two of the divisions of the revelation

progressive doctrine of the Holy Spirit: during the Old Testament
and in the period relating to Christ's presence on earth. Now we have arrived at the:
THIRD - Until the day of Pentecost, the disciples, who had
received the covering of the Spirit when Jesus breathed on them,
they expected the Spirit to come 'upon' them and when that day came,
The Holy Spirit came with the external manifestation of sound and flame.
They were baptized with the Holy Spirit and not just baptized, but
"full" of the Holy Spirit.
There are three results of this baptism and fullness that can be seen.
clearly:
1 - 'they' - 'began to speak in other tongues' (Acts 2:4);
2 - 'power' - when Pedro preached to the listeners, 'they were moved to remorse.'
heart", "with an increase on that day of almost three thousand souls"
(Acts 2:37, 41)
3 - "unity" - "all who believed were together and had everything in
common" (Acts 2:44).
This external unit was the result, not only of the fact that they were
all believers in one Lord and were devoted to a destiny
common, but it was the manifestation of a new fact that affected them and that
had been done for them through baptism with the Spirit. Through
from this baptism they had been vitally united to one another and to Christ
resurrected.
Then began to form the 'body' of Christ, of which the Lord
Jesus, to the right of the Father, is the Head, and all regenerated believers in
Pentecost day and from there are the members. "Just like the body
it is one, and it has many members, and all the members, being many,
they constitute one body, so also with respect to Christ. For in
one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews,
whether Greeks, whether slaves, whether free. And to all of us was given to drink from
"one Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). See also 1:20-23 and 4:3-
16.
 This was the vital union with the resurrected and glorified Christ of
as our Lord had already said (John 15:1-10), as the union between the
vine and the branches. The unity that manifested externally in
Pentecost and even afterwards, through being 'together and having everything in
"common" was operated by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The "gift" or
special coating for a certain service: the 'power' or the
ministry of this gift in divine energy and the "union" to the Body of Christ
these are the results of baptism and being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Starting from Pentecost, when Peter used the first
key and opened the Kingdom to the Jews, until the memorable day when, in the house
of Cornelius, used the second key and opened the door to the Gentiles, the
communication or sharing of the Spirit to the believers (all
Jews had been marked by two peculiarities that disappeared.
entirely in the case of converted Gentiles. These were:
1 - There was commonly a gap between receiving Christ by faith
and the baptism of the Spirit;
2 - Commonly the mediation of the disciples was necessary, either by
prayer or by the laying on of hands.
There are examples that can be found in Acts 8:12-17 and 9:17.
This entire period (Acts 2 to 9 inclusive) is peculiar, transitional and
typically Jewish.
FOURTH - The Holy Spirit since the opening of the Kingdom to the Gentiles,
in Your current relationship and ministry, as taught in the
Epistles.
With the opening of the Kingdom to the Gentiles (Acts 10) we reach what
it can be called the normal experience for this dispensation. It can
while Peter was still speaking
these things when the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the
word". Peter's own account is in Acts 11:15: "When,
however, when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as well
about us in the beginning.
From then on, wherever the Gospel is accepted among the
Gentiles, the Holy Spirit, at the moment they believe, regenerates them,
clothe and baptize them in the Body of Christ. The Epistles provide a
constant and unchanging testimony about this. Some examples of the
Epistles will be sufficient.
As for the covering: "Do you not know that your body is
sanctuary of the Holy Spirit that is in you, which you have from
"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;" (1 Corinthians 6:19).

We must take into account that this is said to the most carnal and least church.
sanctified mentioned in the New Testament. Regarding its
state little spiritual, see 1 Corinthians 1:11-12; 3:1-4; 5:1; 6:1. In
the apostle makes this great truth of the covering of
I hope to provide a foundation to urge them to refrain from sinning more.
rude. They had not achieved such a coating through acts of
obedience, nor for a certain holiness. The covering had been
resulting from their position as Gentiles saved by divine grace. 'And if
If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him” (Romans 8:9).
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear again.
fearful, but you received the spirit of adoption, based on which
we cry: Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). “Because you are sons, He sent
God to our hearts the Spirit of His Son, who cries: Abba, Father
(Galatians 4:6).
Let us briefly note regarding the fact of baptism: 'Just as
the body is one, and has many members, and all the members, being
many are one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether
slaves, want free. And to all of us was given to drink from one Spirit
Corinthians 12:12-13). This is also said of the very 'carnal' Corinthians
that, instead of having made great progress in spiritual life,
achieving the 'second blessing', they were 'children in Christ' to the point
They must feed on spiritual milk and not on meat.
Note also, in this chapter 12, the emphasis that is placed on the
universality of this position 'in Christ' (verse 11); 'all the members'
(verse 12); "we have all been baptized" and "we were all given to drink"
each one
In other words, the Body of Christ is made up of believers
individuals united with Christ, the living Head, through the baptism of the Spirit
Saints are not, in this sense, 'scattered members', there are no 'members
"separated" in the Body of Christ. This idea is completely strange in the
Epistles and could never have entered the mind of any man through
reading of the Epistles.
The completely erroneous and false idea that a gentile can be
a regenerated Christian in the Lord Jesus Christ is due to failure in
observe the progress of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the New
Will.
Without a doubt, the strange notion that experiences through
what the disciples went through in the time of our Lord, since his
position as simple Jews in the flesh up to their position in the Body of
Christ must be followed by all subsequent believers, whether they are
Jews, whether they are Gentiles, are the cause of this doctrinal error.
The surprising experience at Cornélio's house should be
enough to dispel such an idea. This experience left amazed the
apostolic church, shaking it to its roots and it was the fact that determined the
Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:7-10) so that the Gospel would be
emancipated from its ties to Judaism, because God so
provided.
 Instead of today ’s believers being taught that they are
deprived of the Holy Spirit except because they have gone through
certain experiences after conversion; or that can obtain the
Holy Spirit asking You to the Father, as it happened in the period between the
baptism and the crucifixion of Christ; or that many need to be
agreement in a certain place "with their faces before God" if they wish
receive the Spirit; or that they cannot receive the Spirit until they do not
“be fully consecrated” or “perfectly dedicated”
they should solemnly accept the responsibility that rests upon
all those whose bodies are already "temple of the Holy Spirit".
And do not grieve the Spirit of God, in Whom you were sealed for
the day of redemption" (Ephesians 4:30), being "members in particular"
of the sacred Body of Christ. "And do not grieve the Spirit of God, in
What were sealed for the day of redemption" (Ephesians 4:30).
Let us show them the glorious possibilities of latent blessings
existing in these facts.
There is no more powerful thought to operate a
transformation that can be received by the mind of the believer that the fact
of your body being covered by the Holy Spirit is based on the case of the
"disciples" whom Paul spoke to in Ephesus. "Did you receive by chance the
"Holy Spirit, when did you believe?" (Acts 19:2) In this regard, we must
to say:
The same way that Paul asks the question indicates that,
normally, they should have received the Holy Spirit upon believing;
The question revealed their true state, that is, that they still
they were not disciples of Christ, but of John the Baptist. This shows that
they were Jews or proselyte Jews. They were in the same situation as
disciples of John the Baptist before he pointed them to Jesus: "Behold the
Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29), as the only
object of faith;
The fact that they did not possess the Spirit was not due to their
ignorance of the coming of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, but to the fact of
that your faith was not placed in the crucified Christ but rather in the
the expectation of the Jews regarding the coming of the Messiah (verse 4).
4 - That they were not Christians before their interview with Paul.
shows the fact that they accepted the Christian baptism, adding it to the
simple preparatory rite of John the Baptist (verse 5).
Although it is true that every regenerated believer is clothed with the
Spirit and is baptized in Christ by the Spirit, is of great importance
observe that the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles make a distinction between
to possess the Spirit and to be filled with the Spirit. An example of this distinction
it is found in Ephesians. In Ephesians 4:30 the believer is reminded (as
 If we look for the natural divisions of this progressive
unveiling the truth of the Spirit, we will find it in a way
so clear that it will be impossible to confuse them.
These divisions are:
1 - The Holy Spirit before the Incarnation of Christ.
2 - The Holy Spirit related to the Person and the ministry
of Christ, from the Incarnation to Pentecost.
3 - The Holy Spirit from Pentecost to the opening of the door
for the gentiles.
4 - The Holy Spirit in His current ministries and relationships,
as presented in the Epistles.
5 - The Holy Spirit (prophetically) in the future time of the Kingdom.
The purpose of this study is simply to outline the
development of the doctrine in the first four aspects of its
fifth order and make clear the distinctions that can prevent us
confusion of ideas.
FIRST - The Holy Spirit before the Incarnation.
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit is revealed as we already have.
state considered, as a Divine Person. As such, it is associated
with the work of Creation (Genesis 1:2; Job 26:13; 32:8; 33:4; Psalm
104.30); age in favor of sinners (Genesis 6.3); illuminates the spirit of
man (Job 32:8; Proverbs 20:27); gives skill to the hand (Exodus 31:2-5);
concedes physical strength (Judges 14:6); qualifies the servants of God to
various ministries (Exodus 31:3; 35:21-31; Numbers 11:5-29; Judges
11.29; 1 Samuel 16.18; 2 Samuel 23.2)
This must be added to the operation of the Spirit so that the
men of the faith times of the Old Testament would be regenerated.
Although the doctrine is not explicitly taught in the Old
Testament (except in a prophetic way), our Lord said words that
they leave no doubt about this in John 3:5 and Luke 13:28.
How the new birth is essential to see and enter the Kingdom of
God (John 3:3, 5) and how the saints of the Old Testament are in this
Kingdom, it is concluded that they necessarily were born of the Spirit.
Meanwhile, as they were minors at that time, according to
Paul explains (Galatians 3:23-26) that they did not have the covering of the Spirit.
for the affiliation. They were minors, "under the guardianship of the law", but no longer.
subordinate to the aio.
We must also remember that for the saint of the Old Testament
no means had been revealed by which it could receive the
Holy Spirit. The ministries of the Spirit were reserved for the will
sovereign of God. He sent His Holy Spirit to whom He wanted.
The fact that the Spirit comes to a man is not proof that he was.
saved.
 Full of
Holy Spirit
In the previous chapter, we sought to show that the Epistles are
together with the Apocalypse, the final word for the saints in this present
dispensing, instead of urging the believers to seek the clothing
of the Spirit or the baptism of the Spirit repeatedly and affirm that both the
coating like baptism is already a reality for those who,
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, they are regenerated.
We also show that the exhortations to a holy life are
based on the possession of such blessings. We also saw that it is not the mere
presence of the Spirit as clothing or baptism that ensures the
plenitude of blessing, victory, and power, but the fact that the believer is filled
of the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18 is a command: "Be filled with the Spirit."
The purpose of this study is to indicate the simple biblical conditions
for this 'filling'. These conditions are: 1) negative - some
things that should not happen if we want to know this blessing; 2)
positive - things that require a positively defined action from us
part.

1 - The negative conditions for being filled

of the Holy Spirit
The first of these negative conditions is indicated in Ephesians.
Do not grieve the Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed
for the day of redemption. Far from you all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
screams, and blasphemies, and also all malice.
The word "entristecer" in this passage literally means
"to leave sad". It is moving that the Bible never speaks of the anger of the Spirit.
Isn't it strange that someone has found this particularity of
Spirit of being saddened, but not angry, the maternal aspect in love
divine.
The things that grieve the Spirit are the improper things.
allowed in our life. Some are enumerated, as we have seen.
In Galatians 5:17 it is said that "the flesh battles against the Spirit and the
"Spirit against the flesh" and "the works of the flesh" are enumerated:
prostitution, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmities,
rivalries, jealousy, anger, discord, dissensions, factions, envies, drunkenness
gluttonies and similar things.
This is a clause that encompasses all expression of the flesh.
All these things sadden the Spirit when they are allowed in life.
of the believer. Everything depends on the consent of our will. The
temptations to these sins do not grieve the Spirit, for the temptations,
they are not a sin, but at the moment when the will consents to the
practice or in the presence of such things or 'similar things' then
The Spirit, who is holy and sensitive, becomes saddened.
The effect of the agreement of our will to the 'law of sin that is'
"in our members" is to refuse the government of the Spirit in some sector of the
our nature; is to diminish the sphere of the Spirit's dominion over us.
Our complex nature is like an empire with several states.
We are spirit, soul, and body. It may be that we wish that the Spirit
Our bad character dominates us, but we tend to hold grudges. It can be
that we want the Spirit to dominate our passions, however,
we preserve what we call freedom of intellect.
Before our conversion, this empire (although without us the
know) was governed by Satan (1 Corinthians 12:2; Ephesians 2:2)
through the 'I' as a ruler. Now Christ is enthroned, through
of the Spirit. Now the dethroned monarch seeks to regain the
your domain or part of it and the agreement of human will to
any manifestation of the natural heart is to put the 'I' back in
throne.
When this happens and one lets the 'self' act, there is, consequently,
the dethronement of the regent of Christ, the Spirit. It is not about Him
do not abandon us. Thank God, as we are "sealed for the day of the
"redemption". To offend the Spirit to the point of Him leaving us is a
an idea that does not exist in Scripture, but the grieved Spirit is a
Spirit that does not fill.
The immediate consequence of restricting the sphere of authority of
Spirit is a loss of blessing and power in the inner life and the loss of
power in the outer life, the life of service. The remedy for this loss of
the fullness of the Spirit is indicated further on.
2 - The second negative condition is indicated in 1
Thessalonians 5:1: 'Do not quench the Spirit.' The word used in
original primarily means 'to extinguish the fire' and in a sense
secondary means 'to resist any vigorous effort'.
To extinguish the Spirit, therefore, is to resist His fire energy, His
consumer and purifying work. The Spirit is the Spirit of power. By
through Him, God uses us as instruments for a purpose that
covers the whole world. To extinguish the Spirit, therefore, is to resist His
work of purification and use. To keep something in the dross of man
natural for not allowing His action in our way is to erase Him.
In the same way, any resistance to Him in His will to
to use us, no matter how small and for any reason, is to erase Him.
The spirit does not force us to obey. Its power is irresistible, but it waits.
the consent of our will.
We extinguish the Spirit when we oppose His will.
We extinguish the Spirit, for when we refuse to speak of Christ, moving-
us the Spirit to do it. It may seem like a small thing and without
importance, but we are not the judges to classify what for
God is either great or small. In His work, huge results are often obtained.
results through actions of no importance.
We turn off the Spirit when we refuse to do a service.
We extinguish the Spirit when we refuse His sovereignty.
absolute about our service regarding the way to serve
Christ (Acts 8:29), where We serve Him (Acts 8:2-4; 16:6-7) and what we do
for Him (1 Corinthians 12:6-11). If the servants of Christ are
influenced regarding the place, type, and method of service for reasons that
include mundane advantages, salary and similar reasons then no
they can expect to know the Spirit in fullness. We extinguish the Spirit
when we consent to manipulations in the life of the church that do not give
freedom for the ministry of gifts of the Spirit, imposing silence or
inactivity of some members.
The effect of extinguishing the Spirit is precisely the same as
to make Him sad: the sphere of His authority is diminished; we are no longer
but "full" because we excluded Him from a part of our being. In
In the previous chapter, we provided an illustration of this. It was in the case of the

disciples who, although they were filled on the day of Pentecost,

however, they needed to be filled again on later occasions.
The negative conditions to fulfill in order to be filled with the Spirit
Saints are, therefore, that we stop making Him sad (something that we do
when we voluntarily refuse to live in holiness) and that we let go
by turning it off (opposing the sanctifying work of the Spirit within us
and to the activating power over us).
We repeat: It is not that we have to cleanse ourselves of sin.
or to be perfect in obedience. Neither of these two acts is possible
for us. We are powerless for this. What we can and should do
is to place our will alongside the Spirit in these matters.
It is often said that if we really want to be saints and
obedient, victory is already won. But in chapter 7 of Romans,
Paulo makes the tremendous discovery that wanting and doing are not the same.
same thing. "Because I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is no
I do no good: for the desire for good is in me, but not the good itself.
I do it. For I do not do the good I prefer, but the evil I do not want,
I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. (Romans 7:18-19)

To achieve this, we must turn to the powerful 'law of the Spirit'

Romans 8:2. Now we arrive at
2 - The positive conditions for us to be filled
of the Holy Spirit

They can be summarized in three:

The first is mentioned in the Scripture in various ways:
consecration, presentation of the body as a living sacrifice, take up the cross,
etc., can be summed up in one final word: "offer". "Do not offer each one
the members of your body to sin as instruments of iniquity;
but offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought back to life from the dead and your

members to God as instruments of righteousness" (Romans 6:13).

The word 'offer' used here means, in the original, a
absolute surrender to the control of others. In a somewhat
different is used by the Lord in Matthew 26:53: "Do you think that I cannot
I can ask My Father and He would send Me at this moment more than
Do the legions of angels?
these twelve legions would not have an obedience to Jesus in the fullest sense
absolute?
The same word is used in the presentation of sacrifices. These,
it is not necessary to insist on this, they are completely surrendered to God.
He who sacrificed, under the dispensation of the law, did not even think about
reaffirm your authority or power over your offer, having brought it.
to the priest.
In reality, your last act of authority was to sacrifice the victim at the
presence of the priest (Leviticus 4:33). The same thought of
"to offer" until death is insistently reinforced in the Epistles
The very essence of true 'offering' is
to recognize that in the reckoning with God we are crucified.
with Christ, through the Spirit (Romans 8:13) and this has to
happening in our experience (Galatians 5:24; 2 Corinthians 1:9).
We must repeat that this co-crucifixion with Christ is not a work
our - Christ did not crucify Himself, but "through the eternal Spirit,
He offered himself without blemish to God" (Hebrews 9:14). Thus
we also, "through the Spirit, mortify the deeds of the body".
And this 'to yield' or 'to offer' has a double meaning: 'you', 'yours'
members." The first reaches even to the inner life: the sphere of the soul and of
spirit; the second, the outside life: the sphere of service.
The first includes offering all things to the Spirit that we
they make unclean, and therefore sadden the Spirit. "Far from you all
the bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, and likewise all the
"malice" (Ephesians 4:31). This is very different from us making an effort
to eliminate these things. We would never achieve it, but the Spirit
Saint can remove such things from us.
 "To yield" includes consent in this purifying work. To yield.
our "members" as instruments is to put in the hands of Christ, by
Spirit, all control over our service in relation to time,
place and quality. The formula is "everything at every moment, anywhere"
place.
In Romans 12:1, this 'surrender' is presented in a way
sacrificial. Let us note that the exhortation is placed in the entirety of this
abandonment of our bodies to Him. Under the old dispensation, as already
We have said that what was offered did not have the hidden purpose of asking for donations.
back. Likewise, the "to yield" or "to offer oneself" in the required sense
to give oneself and our members to the authority of Christ, under the
direction of the Spirit, sincerely and frankly, without any reservations
secret.
Let's now put all our emphasis on the remaining truth to
regarding this 'yielding'. It is a defined act. There are millions who
they were never filled with the Holy Spirit because they never offered themselves to
definitely no one and neither they nor their members.
Even among fervent Christians, this lack of definition is
proven through the constant and continuous practice of 'consecrations'
(so-called). If we have truly presented our bodies
as a living sacrifice, then we have nothing more to present.
2 - The second positive condition to be filled with the Spirit is faith.
We understand faith not as our trust in Christ as our
Savior, but the trust in Him as the only one who grants us the
Spirit. Let's set aside all the confusing conditions of the past.
to remind us that now for Christians He is at the right hand of God
exalted and in a position to fulfill what he had promised to
pronounce the words of John 7:37-39: "On the last day, the great day of the
Feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed: If anyone thirsts, come to Me
and drink... This He said concerning the Spirit whom they were to receive
those who would grow in Him.
He is already in a position to do what John the Baptist testified.
About Him: 'I truly baptize you with water, but there comes one who is
more powerful than I of whom I am not worthy to untie
the straps of the sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit” (Luke
3.16)
In the same way as He, during His earthly ministry,
said that the Father was eager to give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him for it
I would have asked, now the Holy Spirit points to the Christ subject and
glorified as He who grants the Spirit (Acts 2:33).
Faith, therefore, is required here for a double exercise: to believe that
the risen and glorified Christ is able and eager to grant
fullness of the Holy Spirit and then to "drink" (John 7:37), that is,
participate in the Spirit through a clear and defined act of
appropriation.
And all of this by faith. He who gave himself up and renounced
to every sin, offering oneself, without reservations, to the authority of
Christ through the Spirit is on suitable ground. Listening to the
invitation of Christ: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink", let's
Christ so that we may be filled definitively with the Spirit and, having
arriving at Him, "we drink". It is the same exercise of faith by which the person,
at the beginning of your Christian life, "receive" Christ (John 1:12).
It is here that crowds have truly surrendered their lives to
Christ, do not "drink". Waiting for some manifestation of the senses,
they continue, perhaps year after year, asking and yearning for the fullness of
Spirit, but they never 'receive' it. Deep down, they might even blame the ...
God. In the spirit of the older son of the parable there was the accusation:
"You never gave me a kid." The answer is always: "My son... everything
what is mine is yours” (Luke 15:29, 31).
3 - The third condition is prayer. Let us remember this well,
it does not consist of asking the Spirit from the Father. It is Jesus Who, being exalted,
to the right of God,” received “from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.”} +#+ assistant to=python codeimport json translations = {

It also does not ask for the repeated and emphatic statements of
that the believer already has the Spirit. In his wonderful prayer in Acts
4.24-30, the disciples do not mention the Spirit. They pray about the
fear they have because of the Jewish religious authorities and of
Herod and Pontius Pilate, with Gentiles and the people of Israel. "Lord, look
for your threats and grant your servants to announce with
all the boldness to Your word.
Let's think about what this prayer has of humility and concern.
I can indeed manage a large part of the prayers these days. And,
especially, let us observe that they prayed regarding what they
they had failed: 'Lord, look at your threats.' The fear was
putting out the Spirit. Thus, our prayers must encompass
scrupulously and sincerely our failure, beyond the interests of
Jesus, who has been entrusted to us.
For the vast majority, if not for all, prayer should be the
natural attitude of the soul when it 'receives' the Spirit definitively. 'Lord
Jesus, I receive; I am receiving from You the fullness of the Spirit. I believe that
You have received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit and You yourself
You said: 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink', it should be ours.
prayer.
Now, a few words of warning. Being filled with
Spirit is, at the same time, an act and a process; a success and a
life. There is a principle of the state of fullness, but the continuation of this
the state depends on the maintenance of the conditions already seen. The believer who
want to know the blessedness of a life full of the Spirit
must begin with defined acts of renunciation and surrender, of
appropriation by faith and prayer and should also maintain as a habit of
life or yield, or appropriate through faith and pray.
Such a believer instantly confesses everything that saddens them to
Spirit, this maintains the attitude of surrender. It is always 'drinking' the
Spirit. 'Whoever drinks the water that I give him will never thirst again.'
seat, forever” (John 4:14). Keeps all your being in an attitude
receptive to what Christ grants.
Do not try to think of the Spirit. Think of Christ, who grants the
Spirit. The blessed, holy, lovely Spirit would be very happy if
He did not occupy our mind, as happens whenever this mind
it is not full of Christ. Live a life of prayer. Use prayer for
the desire and the confident faith of every servant of God when advancing towards
each new activity.

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It is indispensable that we are

filled with the Holy Spirit
Regarding being filled with the Holy Spirit indicates that it is a
desirable state, but not essential; it is a luxury
of the Christian life.

A certain minister once told me: 'One day I will study

"better this". He seemed not to realize the lamentable fact that he is not.
full of the Spirit; no act of his service could have power and, for
because of this problem, your own preaching could harm your
listeners because nothing can stifle the consciousness and the heart more than
that the truth divorced from power (2 Timothy 3:5).
No Christian should perform the least service for Christ
until being filled with the Holy Spirit in a definite way.
You are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send upon you the
promise of My Father; therefore remain in the city until you are clothed from on high
You will be clothed with power” (Luke 24:48-49). “You will receive power, when
the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and you will be My witnesses both
in Jerusalem, as in all of Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of
"earth" (Acts 1:8).
The wonderful way in which all this was fulfilled can be known.
those who read chapter two of the Acts of the Apostles. After the
The Holy Spirit fell upon them, "they received power" because "everyone was amazed."
filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, according to
the Spirit granted them to speak.
The very apostles of Jesus Christ, those men who had
were chosen by Him; who had been shaped by the tremendous
impact of your personality; who were firsthand witnesses
of His powerful miracles and of His resurrection; whose memories
They remembered His wonderful words; that they had been clothed
by the Spirit for having Jesus breathed directly upon them; yes, these
the same men had to wait until they were filled with the Spirit first
of starting to do the smallest service for Him.
It is not dangerous and a self-confidence that leads to disobedience.
start any service for Him without being filled with
Spirit?
And there’s more. Biblically, being filled with the Holy Spirit is not
indispensable only for the ministers of the Word. It is indispensable
for any service.
Now, in those days, the number of the disciples was multiplying,
there was murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because the widows
they were being forgotten in the daily distribution. Then the twelve
they summoned the community of the disciples and said: It is not reasonable
that we abandon the word of God to serve tables. But,
brothers, choose from among you men of good reputation, full of
Spirit of Saint and wisdom, to whom we will entrust this service
(Acts 6:1-3). Just as in the Jewish dispensation, Bezalel was filled with
Spirit of God "to work in gold, silver, and bronze" because God
wanted to teach us that every ministry, even if it is mechanical, is
acceptable to Him when done by a servant prepared for service,
also now, in the age of the Church, God wanted to leave even works
temporarily due to qualified men in the same way.
In other words, this is the method by which God
fill and name positions. How great would be the peace and prosperity of
Church of God all the ministers and people who are in it
responsibility would be filled with the Spirit!
The author believes this is very solemn. The service provided by a
a Christian not filled with the Holy Spirit is not an insolent attempt to
set aside God's order? And is it not a lack of Christian love to say that
the inevitable result of such service is an attempt to replace the lack
of spiritual power through carnal resources. Let us look at the announcements that
certain churches publish in the newspapers of their city and you will see the frantic ones
and feverish efforts to present "attractions" that substitute power. It is the
the sin of Nadab and Abihu.
 And just as this sin was punished with death
physics, the same is happening in modern religious life - sin
to replace the strange fire with the fire of the Spirit. It certainly will be
punished also with spiritual death.
No Christian can live a true Christian life if not
is full of the Holy Spirit.
All the variety of ministries of the Spirit when clothing a believer,
ministries that refer to the inner life of the believer depend on
vigorous ministry of being filled with the Spirit. One can have the
Spirit and living a carnal life, without joy, this the church proves in
Corinth (1 Corinthians 1:2-9, 11-13; 3:1-4; 5:1-2; 6:6). The wonderful
results of the coating occur when the Christian is full of
Spirit.
Let us remember that it is the Spirit that gives us victory over sin
(Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:16-17); which reminds the believer of their position
in Christ (Galatians 3:26; 4:6); that produces the fruit of 'love, joy, peace,
longanimidade, benignidade, bondade, fidelidade, mansidão, domínio
own" (Galatians 5:22-23); which grants spiritual strength, strengthening the
"inner man" (Ephesians 3:15): who assists you in your prayers (Romans
8.26; Ephesians 6.18); that comforts (John 14.16-17); that guides, that
sanctifies and makes him a true worshiper.
Considering all this, it should become evident that, as each
A believer can be filled with the Holy Spirit, we are greatly guilty.
before God if this 'filling' is not a reality.
In other words, the Christian cannot live in known sin,
serving yourself and barren of "much fruit", which is the only that
glorifies the Father (John 15:8). God in His grace has made it possible, by
in the midst of the Holy Spirit, may each believer live a holy and
powerful service. Every Christian minister should be happy to see
that sinners are converted and that saints are built up, because of such
things are dependent on this power.
It is true, however, that there are churches so firmly established
in the world and in the lack of spirituality, that refuse the ministry of
Spirit, no matter how much it is offered with wisdom and tenderness. A
The minitrso full of the Spirit will do well to set aside a church.
thus, even if I have to cry out about her like Jesus
cried over Jerusalem. Surely, God will give you the opportunity to
ministry somewhere else. However, be sure he was
offering a ministry full of the Spirit.
And let's repeat, no believer should be happy with just one
mom, I'm in the enviable bliss of being filled with the Spirit.
They made a necessary final comment, considering that it is significant.
part of what is said and written regarding the security of the Christian
to be full of the Spirit. There is much talk, and as I believe in a way
even detrimental, regarding our awareness of the Spirit. The
Harm exists because it is identified as a feeling. Those who do so
teaches assumes that the Christian who has surrendered definitively and that
one filled with the Spirit must know it through a feeling
saint or powerful. This, they say, is the awareness of the Spirit. But
it is completely wrong.
Men filled with the Spirit are deeply aware of
what Matthew Henry calls 'numerous defects and deficiencies in their
"Santa's obligations". They are aware of the closeness, of the beauty,
of the abundant love, of the holiness and tenderness of Christ and of the power of
His blood to perfectly cleanse all sin.
Upon discovering new sins, these men come again and again
the source that purifies your consciences, for you are aware of Christ,
not of the Spirit.
Without a doubt, there is a holy exercise in emotions. "The fruit of
Spirit is... joy.” There is “justice and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” But
there are also occasions of "weakness, trembling, and fear" and these accompany
frequently the 'demonstrations of the Spirit and of power' (1 Corinthians
2.3-4).
Abandon, then, like a trap for the soul, the vigilance of
mental states and subjective feelings and stay firm in faith.
Just as Christ gave us eternal life because He said, "Truly,
Actually, I tell you that whoever believes in Me has eternal life.
(John 6:47), we also believe that He says to the thirsty: "Come to Me and
"drink" (John 7:37), giving them rivers of blessings and power.
To those who remain thus, in faith, let them see in due time the
rivers and knowing the blessed refreshment and purification of the blessed
spring

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