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How To Be Filled With The Spirit

How to be Filled with the Spirit 12/6/09

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There is so much confusion about the filling of the Holy Spirit today. Many emphasize that a person must speak in tongues in order to be filled with the Spirit. There is little understanding concerning what the Bible says about how to be filled.

Purpose: To learn from Scripture what it means to be filled with the Spirit and how to continually walk in the Spirit.

1. First of all we are commanded to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Eph 5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

(a) be filled—present tense, passive voice, imperative mood

(b) The Greek word plaroo means to fill, to make full, to fill up,

to fill up a deficiency, to pervade, to influence fully, to possess fully,

to dominate.

A Systematic Theology

We study theology systematically. This helps us to understand complete doctrines. It helps us to see scripture as a comprehensive text and not disjointed verses. God gave us scripture to understand who He is and to understand who we are. There are many ways to systematically study the bible. We look at all the verses of the bible that touch on the doctrine and study them all together.

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