Most Christians have never been taught what the Bible says about being filled with the Holy Spirit.

So we tend to look in all the wrong places or chase the sensational, when the answer has been there all along tucked

quietly in a single verse of Ephesians 5 you see God never intended his

children to pursue empty promises his word offers something far better tangible

trustworthy access to real power for everyday life today on insight Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall answers the essential question,

What does being filled with the Spirit mean?

We are thinking about how great our God really is these days.

For four Sundays we spoke of the character of God and we focused our time and thought on four particular characteristics of our Heavenly Father. And then we turned to the cross of Christ

and we addressed the benefits of what our Savior accomplished when he died in our behalf on that cruel

cross as the climax of his reason for coming to this earth.

But our father and our Savior have not left us without a comforter.

And though the work of the Holy Spirit is not as well known or well articulated or defined

as the work of the Father and the Son we do need to be aware of what the spirit of God does and the role he plays and today there there is the all

important subject of his filling very few Christians are taught the accurate teaching of Scripture regarding

how to be filled with the Spirit. So we look for all other ways to make that happen. Among

them, sensational ways, which we'll say more about later. But tucked away in the fifth chapter

of Ephesians is the clear and unmistakable direction given by the Spirit of God in Scripture

for us to hear and to heed. And this section has to do with the filling of the Holy Spirit not to be

confused with the regenerating work of the spirit or the sealing work of the

spirit or the baptizing work of the spirit this is the the filling and and we'll

explain that further as we are together today.

Ephesians 5.

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