The Spirit-Filled Life

Other New Testament Names for "Being Filled with the Spirit"--(1) Baptized with the Holy Ghost--"Baptized into One Body," What it means--(2) Rivers of Living Waters--(3) The Pro...

Cleansing--A "New Heart" not necessarily a "Clean Heart"--What is a Clean Heart?--Not Sinlessness--Blameless, not Faultless--"I was alone in the Twilight"--Cleansing a Crisis, n...

How Does it Come?--Aorist Tense: "Were Filled," Refilled, A Crisis--Imperfect Tense: "Were being Filled," A Process--Present Tense: "Full," the Normal Condition--Deacons "Full o...

I have written only for the "babes." The "full-grown," the "perfect," who may read will kindly bear this in mind. A wide and more or less intimate acquaintance with the Churches...

Reader, are you a B. A.? This little book is only for those who possess that degree from the King's College. If you are not "Born Again," please put it aside, for this is our st...

On every hand a lack of _something_ is being felt and expressed by God's people. Their Christian experience is not what they expected it would be. Instead of expected victory, i...

But lest some one should think, "It is optional with me whether I claim my birthright or not; no doubt it would be a very fitting thing for some people to be filled with the Spi...

positive, "Be ye filled." The positive command is as authoritative as the negative, and was binding on _just as many_ of those Ephesian Christians as was the negative command. N...

This being "filled with the Spirit" is a definite blessing, quite distinct from being "born of the Spirit." It is objected by some that every Christian has the Spirit; quite tru...

Some have the idea that this blessing of the Fullness is only for a favored few, for such as have some special work to do for God, but not for ordinary folk, "for auld wives and...

It is most instructive to note how exceedingly anxious the early Christians were, that, as soon as a man was converted, he should be "filled with the Holy Ghost." They knew no r...

It is often asked what time must elapse between the regenerating by the Spirit and the filling with the Spirit? for be it remembered the Filling is as real and distinct and defi...

That we may see how full the New Testament is of this blessing, and that we may the better understand what it is and how it is obtained, let us just glance at some other terms u...

We come now to the practical side of our subject. Surely the unprejudiced reader, if he has not already "received the Holy Ghost," has at least come to the conclusion that there...

But before proceeding to consider these words, it is absolutely necessary that we be on our guard against desiring this so needful a blessing from wrong motives. We must seek it...

As there are conditions requiring to be complied with in order to the obtaining of salvation, before one can be justified, _e. g._, conviction of sin, repentance, faith; so ther...

The second step that must needs be taken by those of us who have been living without the Fullness, before it can be obtained, is Consecration, a word that is very common and pop...

Having considered the two conditions necessary to being filled with the Spirit, viz., the cleansing of the heart, and the consecration of the cleansed heart to God, we come now...

How does the Filling of the Spirit come? "Does it come once for all? or is it _always_ coming, as it were?" was a question addressed to me once by a young candidate for the Bapt...

"Oh, I could not do so and so--I have not the courage," is a reply frequently made by Christian people when asked to undertake some piece of service or other for the Master. The...

"All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, _believe that ye have received_ them, and ye shall have them" (Mark xi. 24). From this you know, that if you have, up to your light,...

The question has been raised--Is it right for one to _say_ that he is "filled with the Holy Ghost"? May this not savor of egotism? John said of Jesus--"Behold the Lamb of God, w...

The question trembles from many a lip--If I get the blessing, may I lose it? Most certainly. But, glory be to God! He has made ample provision for failure. There is no reason wh...