What Does Being "Filled with the Spirit" Mean?, Part 2

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 July 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ephesians 5:15–21 Christians often sense a gap between the life they’re living and the life Scripture describes—a Spirit-empowered life marked by joy, wisdom, and self-control. The problem is rarely a lack of desire. It’s a lack of understanding about what “being filled with the Spirit” actually means. From Ephesians 5:15–21, Pastor Chuck Swindoll explains Paul’s command to “be filled with the Spirit”—what it is, what it is not, and what it looks like in daily life through speech, song, thankfulness, and mutual submission. Stop settling for a half-lived Christian life. Learn what it means to be controlled by the Spirit and walk each day in the fullness He provides!

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0:00.0	On Tuesday's program, Chuck Swindall laid the foundation. And today on Insight for Living, he goes deeper.
0:16.8	At the heart of this message is one commanding verse written by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5, verse 18.
0:23.6	Chuck will draw four observations from the original Greek language that will change the way you think about the spirit-filled life.
0:30.6	This isn't theology for scholars. It's direction for every believer who's ever wondered,
0:36.6	how do I live out this command to be filled with the spirit?
0:40.5	Let's open our Bibles to Ephesians Chapter 5 as we begin with prayer.
0:53.4	Father, we thank you for the beauty of the earth,
0:55.8	and we thank you for the lovely glory of the skies,
1:01.9	and for the love which from our birth over and around us lies.
1:08.3	And Father, thank you for the reminder that your beauty stretches around us and above us and
1:15.2	even because of your faithfulness within us.
1:20.4	Thank you for loving parents who raised us to love you, and thank you for their faithfulness
1:26.6	and building into our lives.
1:28.3	Thank you for the families you have given us on this earth.
1:33.3	And at this time of year we do pause to express our gratitude.
1:40.3	We remember those men and women in uniform in dangerous and difficult places as well as we come to you today.
1:48.0	And we pray for them, for their families here at home, the families of our allies in this battle.
1:57.0	Our Father, we pray that you will hold them close to yourself and take care of them and meet
2:05.1	their needs as their hearts turn toward home.
2:09.9	Also our Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.
2:20.3	We know your word says, woe to those who call evil good.
2:27.3	But that is exactly what we have done.
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