The Holy Spirit Today
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
The
believers at Pentecost “were all filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts
2:4), but the Apostle Paul never anywhere says that all the members of
the Body of Christ are filled with the Holy Spirit. It is surely clear
from the record that the Corinthians and the Galatians, for example,
were not filled with the Spirit, for Paul’s letters to these churches
contain much of rebuke and correction. And it is also evident that
believers today are not — even the best of them — wholly filled with the
Spirit. The filling with the Spirit is now a goal, an attainment, which
the Apostle, by inspiration, sets before us. We are not all filled with
the Spirit as a matter of fact, as were the Pentecostal believers.
While the Spirit does indeed dwell within us by God’s grace, we must
daily appropriate His help by faith.
Hence
the Apostle now exhorts believers: “Be filled with the Spirit” (Eph.
5:18) just as he exhorts them and prays for them, that they may be
“filled with the fruits of righteousness” (Phil. 1:11); “filled with the
knowledge of His will” (Col. 1:9); “filled with all the fulness of God”
(Eph. 3:19), yet none of us have been filled with any of these.
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Kinta, OK 74552
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