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00-11-05-B.JSH-400 /

The Inscrutable Question: Filling of the Holy Spirit: of Christ in the Incarnation & the Church Age believer; the Link between Salvation & Maturity
17)	The filling of the Holy Spirit is a mystery doctrine of the Church Age.  The only occurrence of it before the Church Age was in the Person of Jesus Christ during His Incarnation.
Isaiah 11:2 - The Holy Spirit of God will rest on Him [ Jesus Christ the Messiah ], the Holy Spirit of wisdom and understanding, of counsel and power, of knowledge and reciprocal love.
Isaiah 42:1 - Behold My Servant, whom I sustain; My chosen One in whom My soul delights.  I will put My Holy Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isaiah 61:1 - The Holy Spirit of God is upon Me.
18)	In Luke 4:18–19, Jesus Christ read Isaiah 61:1-2 at the synagogue in Nazareth and upon finishing His recitation He sat down and said in:
Luke 4:21 - “This Scripture is fulfilled in your presence today.”
19)	The filling of the Holy Spirit was a part of the prototype spiritual life that Jesus Christ bequeathed to every Church Age believer.  He prophesied this ministry to His disciples in:
John 14:26 - My Father will send in My name the Mentor [ par£klhtoj / parakletos / ], the Holy Spirit, He will teach you all things and cause you to remember all that you have forgotten.
20)	Just before His ascension the Lord reminded His apostles of the prophecy of the filling of the Holy Spirit:
Acts 1:8 - But you shall receive power to understand [ filling of the Holy Spirit ] when you receive the Holy Spirit [ baptism of the Holy Spirit ], so that you may be My witnesses [ in the appeal trial of Satan ] …
	21)	For the Church Age believer, the filling of the Holy Spirit constitutes status quo spirituality and is the link between salvation and spiritual maturity.  This link can be understood by observing several results of the filling of the Holy Spirit:
1.	First of all it should be noted that the filling of the Holy Spirit is the basis for spiritual growth:
1 Corinthians 2:12 - But we have not received the world’s frame of reference [ human IQ ], but the human spirit from the source of God the Holy Spirit, in order that we might have permanent knowledge [ o‹da / oida /: knowledge understood.  A synonym for ™p…gnwsij / epignosis / & refers to wheel-tracks of righteousness ] of things that have been graciously given to us under the authority of God;
v. 13 - which things [ mystery doctrine ] we also communicate, not by teaching [ didaktÒj / didaktos /: systematically in categories with exegesis and isagogics ] from the source of man’s wisdom, but by teaching from the source of the Holy Spirit, bringing together spiritual truth [ instrumental of association of pneumatikÒj / pneumatikos /: mystery doctrine communicated systematically ] to a spiritual apparatus [ accusative neuter direct object of pneumatikÒj / pneumatikos /:  Grace Apparatus for Perception ].
v. 14 - The soulish [ yucikÒj / psuchikos / ] man does not accept things [ he cannot learn mystery doctrines ] from the Holy Spirit [ His teachings are not accessible to the unbeliever ] for to him they are foolishness [ no spiritual IQ ], furthermore, he is not able to even acquire academic understanding [ gnîsij / gnosis / in the noàj of the soul’s mentality ] because they [ mystery doctrines ] are spiritually discerned [ by means of the Grace Apparatus for Perception ].    
2.	With an ever-increasing inventory of divine thought circulating in the stream of consciousness, the believer has the capacity for divine guidance through the filling of the Holy Spirit.  This concept is taught in the passage we have just completed:
Ephesians 5:15 - See to it, therefore, that you discern and understand how with due diligence you must walk accurately without deviation in wheel-tracks of righteousness, not as fools, but as wise men.
v. 16 -	Keep on purchasing time because the days are infused with categories of evil.
v. 17 -	Therefore, stop becoming fools but keep on gaining insight and comprehension of what the will, plan, and purpose of God is.
v. 18 -	Stop being intoxicated with wine which is dissipation but keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit.
3.	The Church Age believer is unprepared, unequipped, and unqualified to worship God if he is not filled with the Holy Spirit.
John 4:24 - God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in the power of the Holy Spirit and by means of biblical truth. 
Philippians 3:3 - For we are … those who serve God in the power of the Holy Spirit, and we boast with reference to Christ Jesus and we have not placed our consistent confidence in the flesh. 
		4.	Effectual prayer is impossible without the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 6:18 - By maximum effective prayer and supplication always pray on every occasion by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit, and because of this, be on the alert with unremitting persistence and humble entreaty for all things concerning all saints.
		5.	When we are filled with the Holy Spirit we are at harmony with Christ and with our fellow believers.
Philippians 2:1 - If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Holy Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
v. 2 -		make my happiness complete by being likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 
6.	The filling of the Holy Spirit is the source of power that gets us to the point where we can imitate the thinking of God.
Ephesians 5:1 - Keep on becoming imitators of God as beloved children.
v. 2 - Begin walking in reciprocal love just as Christ also unconditionally loved you.
		7.	Further, the glorification of Christ is not possible without the filling of the Holy Spirit.  It brings us to the point where we have the confidence and courage to express through speech and action our devotion to and love for Him.
Philippians 1:20 - On the basis of intense concentration and absolute confidence that I shall not be disgraced [ when confronting dishonorable people ] in anything but that with all boldness of speech Christ shall even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
v. 21 -	For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is profit.
		8.	The Christian way of life simply cannot be executed by human energy or the power of the flesh.
Zechariah 4:6 -	“Not by might nor by power but by My Holy Spirit,” says the Lord of the armies [ toabx / sevaoth /: armies ].

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