How Do I Know If the Holy Spirit Is in Me?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

Desiring God, Theology, John Piper, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Questions, Religion & Spirituality, Pastor, Ask, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Whether you became a Christian at age 5 or 85, God worked in you, by his Holy Spirit, to open your eyes to the wonder and beauty of Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	How do I know if the Holy Spirit is in me?
0:08.1	I'm very few questions are more important to ask, and all of us face this question at
0:12.6	some point, and it's a question asked even by pastors too, like this one.
0:18.1	Dear Pastor John Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am a pastor in Dubai.
0:23.4	Can you tell me how can I know for sure if I have the Holy Spirit inside of me?
0:28.6	I got saved at 8, and I'm now 33.
0:31.7	I still haven't experienced the power of the Holy Spirit in my life, not demonstrably.
0:37.2	I would really appreciate it if you could explain to me how to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
0:42.2	What does this look like?
0:45.2	Let's begin with a clarification.
0:47.9	Our friend is asking two very distinct questions, and it's not clear to me that he knows that
0:57.3	he's asking two very distinct questions.
1:01.7	My first concern is to make sure that he understands biblically that these are two very distinct
1:08.7	questions.
1:09.7	His first question is, how can I know for sure if I have the Holy Spirit in me?
1:17.8	Second question, how can I be filled with the Holy Spirit?
1:24.4	It is possible to be in a season of true Christian life and not be filled with the Holy Spirit,
1:33.5	and that's what I'm not sure he understands.
1:36.1	But it is not possible to be a Christian at all if one does not have the Holy Spirit dwelling
1:45.6	within us.
1:46.9	To be a Christian is to have the Spirit of Christ, Romans 5, 9, to 11.
1:55.6	You are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit.
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