Study – How To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit Every Day

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Short Summary
The study explores the multifaceted nature and operations of the Holy Spirit, emphasizing its role as the life-giving and guiding power of God that works in diverse ways from creation to inspiring Scripture and daily spiritual growth. It highlights the personal and powerful influence of the Spirit in believers’ lives, including the process of being spirit-begotten, walking after the Spirit, and being continually filled with it through prayer, study, and surrendering self-will. The discussion also underscores the Holy Spirit as essential for transformation, offering wisdom and strength, and the intimate relationship believers have with God as His children through the Spirit.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Study on the Holy Spirit

Nature and Operations of the Holy Spirit
– The Holy Spirit operates in diverse and mysterious ways, often beyond human comprehension.
– It acts in creative roles, spirit begettal (new spiritual birth), guidance, teaching, sanctification, conviction of sin, and many other capacities.
– The Holy Spirit is likened to the wind by Jesus in His conversation with Nicodemus (John 3:8), emphasizing its invisible yet powerful and unpredictable nature.
– Jesus stated, “The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life” (John 6:63), highlighting the life-giving and spiritual essence of the Holy Spirit.
– The Spirit is an extension of God’s presence, not merely power but a personal and active agent carrying out God’s will.
– Trinitarian views often personify the Holy Spirit because of its apparent personality and independent operation, though it never acts apart from God.

Biblical Characteristics and Scriptural References
– The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter or Helper (Greek: Parakletos) in John 14:26, meaning guide and advocate.
– Referred to as the Spirit of Truth (John 16:13) because it cannot lie and comes directly from God.
– Galatians 5:22-23 lists the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
– The Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8).
– Titus 3:5 speaks of the Holy Spirit renewing and regenerating believers.
– Romans 12:1-2 discusses transformation by the renewing of the mind through the Spirit.

Holy Spirit in Creation
– Genesis 1:2 mentions “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,” showing the Spirit’s active role in creation.
– The Hebrew term “Elohim” (plural) used for God hints at the multifaceted nature of God’s power, including the Spirit’s role.
– Psalm 104:27-30 illustrates how the Spirit renews and sustains all life continuously.
– The Spirit is the life-giving breath of God (Job 33:4; Psalms 104:30).
– The Spirit is unique as the only being capable of creating from nothing.
– The power behind the universe’s expansion and unseen energy may be attributed to the Spirit’s dynamic force.

Inspiration of Prophets and Scripture
– 2 Peter 1:21 explains that prophecy did not originate from human will but from holy men moved by the Holy Spirit.
– The Spirit guided writers without overriding their personalities, ensuring consistency across centuries and diverse authors.
– The Bible’s interconnectedness (over 63,000 cross-references) is evidence of the Spirit’s role in unifying the Scriptures.
– Jeremiah 20:9 describes the burning fire of the Spirit compelling prophets to speak God’s message.
– John 14:26 shows the Spirit reminding and teaching Jesus’ followers after His resurrection.
– 2 Timothy 3:16 confirms all Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching and correction.

Holy Spirit in the Gospel Age
– Acts 2:38 promises the gift of the Holy Spirit upon repentance and baptism.
– The Spirit’s role has become more direct and intimate in the gospel age, especially in begetting new spiritual life.
– Spirit begettal is the beginning of new life, creating a new mind and nature distinct from those of faithful individuals in earlier ages.
– Spirit begotten believers are considered new creations, different from the prophets who were moved externally but not begotten by the Spirit.
– Romans 8:15 and Ephesians 1:5 speak about “spirit of adoption” or better translated as “spirit of sonship,” indicating the intimate family relationship believers receive.
– The concept of sonship surpasses adoption, emphasizing new creation beyond earthly or natural origins.

Daily Life and Practical Application of the Holy Spirit
– Ephesians 5:18 commands believers to “be filled with the Spirit,” which implies a continuous process of growth and increase in the Spirit’s influence.
– Being filled means emptying oneself of selfishness, worldly influences, and sin to make room for the Spirit.
– Practical ways to be filled include prayer, Bible study, fellowship, singing hymns, meditating on pure and virtuous thoughts (Philippians 4:8), and obedience.
– The Holy Spirit empowers believers with wisdom, guidance, and strength to overcome challenges and live like Jesus.
– The Spirit is the power (Greek: dunamis) enabling Christians to accomplish God’s will.
– Jesus’ example shows growth in the Spirit (Luke 2:52), and believers are encouraged to follow that pattern.
– The Spirit can be felt in moments of worship, ministry, and service, often producing unforeseen wisdom and guidance.
– A warning from Matthew 12:43-45 emphasizes the need for continual filling with the Spirit to avoid spiritual decline.

Additional Resources and Encouragement
– The study recommends devotional books like Andrew Murray’s *The Spirit-Filled Life* to deepen understanding and practical experience.
– Understanding the Spirit’s work is a lifelong process, often beyond full human comprehension.
– Believers are encouraged to boldly ask God for the Spirit’s filling, relying on His grace and power.
– The study highlights that the Spirit’s work is not instantaneous but progressive, likened to an embryo growing until full birth at glorification.
– Emphasis is placed on the necessity of aligning one’s life to God’s Word to maintain a strong spiritual connection (“satellite dish” analogy).
– The ultimate goal of the Spirit’s work is to make believers like Jesus, which is the final test at judgment (1 John 4:17).

Key Bible Verses Mentioned:
– John 3:8 – The Spirit is like the wind.
– John 6:63 – Words of Jesus are spirit and life.
– John 14:26 – The Comforter (Helper) will teach and remind.
– John 16:8,13 – The Spirit convicts the world and is the Spirit of truth.
– Galatians 5:22-23 – Fruits of the Spirit.
– Titus 3:5 – Renewal by the Holy Spirit.
– Romans 12:1-2 – Transformation by renewing the mind.
– Genesis 1:2 – Spirit of God moving over the waters.
– Psalm 104:27-30 – Spirit renews creation.
– 2 Peter 1:21 – Prophets moved by the Holy Spirit.
– Jeremiah 20:9 – Burning fire of the Spirit in the prophet’s heart.
– 2 Timothy 3:16 – All Scripture inspired by God.
– Acts 2:38 – Promise of the Holy Spirit gift.
– Romans 8:15; Ephesians 1:5 – Spirit of adoption / sonship.
– Ephesians 5:18 – Be filled with the Spirit.
– Philippians 4:8 – Think on things that are pure and lovely.
– Matthew 12:43-45 – Need for continual filling with the Spirit.
– Luke 2:52 – Jesus increased in wisdom and Spirit.
– Romans 10:10 – Belief and confession leading to salvation.

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This study underscores the Holy Spirit’s multifaceted role—from creation, inspiration of Scripture, to daily empowerment and transformation of believers—while emphasizing the ongoing, dynamic, and personal nature of the Spirit’s work in the Christian life.

Transcript

That operates in ways that we can’t even probably imagine. But so as far as the interesting thing about the Holy Spirit is it’s, and the pastor addresses it is its diverse manner of operations can do everything from creative acts to, you know, to spirit begettal to other amazing, you know, acts and whatnot. So but defining it is, I think we don’t have a whole lot of information as to, you know, what, what’s going on behind the scenes. Over.

Okay, Brother Michael.

All right.

Were given one of our first examples is the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus. He was particularly concerned and interested in, you know, what Jesus was, who Jesus was and what he was about, and he explained to him that the Spirit was like the wind. I mean, we didn’t even need a Greek translation. It’s there right there in the dialogue.

And he’s given us a clue as to the action of the Spirit and the nature of it as he compares it to the wind, and Nicodemus was particularly concerned with the idea of being born again as Jesus was speaking, which we know is begotten. So there’s a conversation there that jump starts our understanding as to what the Holy Spirit is and the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Brother Paul. You had your hand up.

My anchor scripture for the Holy Spirit is when Jesus said the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life, and so to me, that describes the power and influence of God. You know, the power of the Holy Spirit gives life.

The influence of the Holy Spirit, guides, directs, teaches, sanctifies.

It convicts us of sin.

You know, a whole slew of things. You know, is the Holy Spirit in, you know, in our lives, and so we should, as Brother David said, also include the word invisible, the invisible power and influence of God over. Okay, thank you, Brother David.

I appreciated the comments. That kind of instill in us a reverence for God with respect to his power. We, we minimize the Holy Spirit by the definition we usually use or often use. It’s the power of God. It’s that.

But I really like the way that Paul expressed it here a moment ago, that to a certain degree it’s undefinable to us because it has so many roles, so many capacities, so many uses of God. You can sort of understand how trinitarians sometimes ascribe it to being a person because the Holy Spirit does take on the disposition of God. It’s more than just his power. It’s like the extension of his presence which accomplishes everything he needs to do. So there is A spiritual element here that’s hard to put your finger on.

In the fifth volume where Brother Russell talks about the Holy Spirit, you can see all of these different roles and applications that it had. In Genesis chapter 22, where Abraham sends out his servant Eliezer to get to procure a bride for Isaac, he represents the Holy Spirit, and here’s a case where the Holy Spirit almost takes on a personality being represented by an individual, and that’s true too. It takes on that, as I mentioned, the personality, the disposition, the aspirations, the desires, the objectives of God.

It does all of that. So really we stand in awe of the power of God, and on top of all that, we are invited to ask for Holy Spirit. It will add to us, it will help us to grow, it will give us insights, it will help us in our daily concentrated walk. So many of the comments already given have given that, but I just wanted to emphasize that this is something that it’s hard to put your urns around with, but it’s powerful and our Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, make it available to us.

Over. Yes, thank you. Yes, brother Sister Julianne, I just wanted to add a couple scriptures. John 14:26, the comforter. So as you know, it was mentioned, you are given scriptures that are characteristics of what it is, but not really defining it because there’s just so many aspect of it.

So the comforter, the Greek word also, you know, mentions that it means helper or guide. In John 16:13, it gives another characteristic. It’s the spirit of truth. It cannot lie because it comes from God. In Galatians 5:22 and 23, there are more characteristics.

It bears fruits. So what are the fruits of the Holy Spirit? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. So everything that is contrary to it is not of the Holy Spirit.

John 16:8, when the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment. So it means that it stands for righteousness. Titus 3:5 he served us by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit. When we think of Romans 12:1, being renewed by the being, transformed by the renewing of your mind, that’s what the Holy Spirit helped us to not think according to the flesh, with all its blemishes and the corruption of the mind, and, you know, not being wise enough to know how to walk in this world.

God gives us his Holy Spirit, his wisdom. You know, by his power we’re able, you know, we learn to have the wisdom from above that is above anything that we can imagine here. So it’s potent. We know that his influence, his power, his wisdom in our life is wonderful. Thank you.

Thank you, Brother Brendan.

Yeah, all good comments are giving hearing you test test. Okay.

So yeah, the comments are great and what Brother David was saying, and I think we all have probably a similar thought that it’s so big it’s probably beyond our ability to even really comprehend or understand because to really understand the Holy Spirit is probably to understand God, and I think that’s going to take a lot longer than a few years on earth in fallen flesh. So. But Sister Julie, I’m glad Sister Julianne brought up the comforter or the parakletos, that Greek word that’s used five times.

Four times it’s used by Jesus to refer to the Holy Spirit, and one time it’s used by Paul to refer to Jesus as the advocate. That word advocate with the Father, of course most brethren know is also paracletos. But so just that one Spirit, many operations that the pastor goes into in the volume and even he recognizes of course that that it’s beyond and it’s interesting and Brother David mentioned it, that you can understand why the Holy Spirit looks like an individual entity with its own thinking and understanding and its own ability to do like what it wants, and that may actually be completely true in how it operates.

We don’t know, but we know it is from God and it’s not. It doesn’t operate independently, you know, or without doing God’s will. But we just the way that it’s portrayed in the scriptures does seem to be very personal. Like it almost is an individual and it does things that so it so God’s power, like we have what operates in mysterious ways, I guess as we say so, and of course with the study that I know that you’ll be getting into it soon.

Looking ahead, I’m cheating a little bit and reading your later questions and points that how does this, how do we, for lack of a better way to put it, take advantage of as best or to the maximum ability that we have in the flesh of the various facets of the Holy Spirit, whether it’s being filled with the Holy Spirit, walking after the Holy Spirit, being begotten of the Holy Spirit. These are all different things in our life, and then how we recognize the operation of the Holy Spirit and all these things, but especially as it translates to us being filled and what is God seems to give us the ability his children, his consecrated Spirit begotten children gives a special dispensation of his Holy Spirit to us to utilize and he wants us to use it and at all times, as often as possible, and of course not in the Pentecostal sense that we fully understand. But so how.

So hopefully in the course of your study, you’ll be able to answer all those questions for us. Brother Randy. Well, I hope you could give the answers or all of you together. I’m going to move along a little bit.

How was the Holy Spirit used in the works of creation? And we have Genesis 1:2, and we’ll have brother Ken to read Genesis 1:2 and then give us his comment.

Genesis 1:2, Genesis 1:2, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. So my comment, yes, I believe that when we look at first of all is the beginning of creation. What is this the beginning of the creation of? And that’s the heaven and the earth.

And I think that we’re talking about our heaven and earth here in the beginning of that creation. What’s interesting, you know the first verse in the Bible, it says in the beginning God. Well he uses the word. The word God is translated here from Elohim, and when we look at Elohim, hem in Hebrew is plural.

And so when you look at this, Eloah being Lord, Elohim being plural is a title of God, and when you look at that, it says and the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the earth. Now Trinitarians would use some of these scriptures to say that this would show proof of a true in God. Well, the Hebrew translators have a problem with that because if you go to Deuteronomy 6:1 it says Hear O Israel, the Jehovah, your Elohim is one, and so in the Hebrew when you look at this, it’s a multifaceted title of God to show us in the works.

And here it is being used in the works of creation, and so it is the power or agency of God using all of his attributes and characteristics. Wisdom, justice, power and love. We always think of. But multiply that by and we’re getting into.

We really can’t understand the whole power of God. But some clue may be given by the use of Elohim in the multi duplicity and awesomeness of it. Okay, thank you. Anyone else have a thought on how it was used in the works of creation? Sister Joyce I love that comment that was just made very much.

I think it really does incorporate the essence of the Hebrew in this sense. It’s the awesome one moved upon the waters, and when we look now in the light of science and what we know about astronomy, we can just be in awe of the power of the Holy Spirit that had the whole universe and then prepared this jewel for inhabitants of life, and the earth is so unique in the universe. I think that this does this demonstrates the Holy Spirit.

It’s often been said that amongst analytical theoretical physicists, they. There are no atheists. They may not be Christians, but they understand the concept of the great first cause, and that is the power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, brother Homer.

And then the sister up front here.

So this is, it’s more than deep. We’re talking about something that we don’t understand. It’s hard to say that. But let me begin by giving a difference in scripture because as has been stated, you cannot separate this from the Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit and the Heavenly Father. The scripture I will go to is in Psalms chapter 90 and it says in verse two, speaking about the Heavenly Father, he says, you are from everlasting to everlasting.

Thou art God. Now, one of the ways in which I look at this and I sometimes say, you know, and we even talk about other scriptures that talk about reverencing or our Lord Jesus Christ for all that he has done as a willing son. The way I put it is we don’t know exactly when our Lord Jesus was created. We don’t know but the time from now, if we were to count back to the point in time when Jesus was created, because we’re talking about the works of creation. I mean, that was God’s masterpiece, if you will, as a Logos is shorter than the period from the creation of the Logos backwards to the beginning, because God had no beginning.

And the point I’m making is the Holy Spirit is older than Jesus Christ. Think about that, and so when we’re talking about creative, how do you separate the Holy Spirit from God himself? I mean, if it’s a power, it belongs to him. He manifests it in many, many ways.

So we struggle. It’s a concept, and I guess if we’re faithful, I guess we’ll know more about it. I suppose we will, and that’s the only comment I wanted to make.

Yes. Thank you, Brother Homer. Sister, thank you. I appreciate all the scriptures thus far. So the question says, how was the Spirit used in the works of creation?

So my answer is speaking from that aspect. So the Holy Spirit throughout the scripture is always associated with, with life giving. Job 33, 4 and Psalms 104, 30. So I would say The Holy Spirit in this aspect would be the active, life giving presence of God. Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Brother Paul.

So if you want to get really definitive about this, you can read Psalm 104, which is a quite, it’s a long, it’s a long psalm, but it, it’s all about this subject. I’m just going to read two verses, verse 27. All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time. Isn’t that interesting? But then if you go down to verse 30, and when you send your spirit, they are created.

And I think that means that they are in the process of creating because he’s talking about feeding us, feeding his creatures, and it goes on and you renew the face of the ground. You know, this is the time of year that we see everything sprouting and, and you know, you walk out of your house one day and you see, you know, this vegetation that wasn’t there, you know, a couple days ago, and you just wonder how did this happen? You know, and it’s through God’s Holy Spirit that all creation is renewed, and it goes on and says, may the glory of the Lord endure forever.

May the Lord rejoice in all his works. This is a wonderful psalm to read about the Holy Spirit and creation. Okay, thank you. Brother Brendan say another probably exclusive and unique feature to God’s Holy Spirit is that he is, at least as far as we know, the only being that is able to create something from nothing.

I’ll just say when you think about that, that is an extraordinary. I mean, it’s mind boggling. Obviously, like Brother Homer said, we’re like playing with things that we have. It must be almost comical sometimes to God to look down and see his. His children as intelligent as we might be, like little kids fighting about what, or talking about what these things are.

But just that one thing alone, the ability to create something from nothing staggers the ability to even use words to describe it. Yes, that’s an amazing point that we.

He creates everything from nothing that existed before. He creates all the elements to make up everything else. Brother Stein?

So when we’re talking about the Holy Spirit, and I want to call it the theory of the Holy Spirit, because until we have a really definitive understanding of it, it’s just a theory. That’s how it works in the science community, and when you look at the creation and science can look at it and say, well, this is, this is where the Big Bang happened and it expanded out and we can see this expansion. But then as science continues to Grow. They look out and say, well, it’s actually bigger than that.

And we’re seeing the expansion continuing to go. The fun thing about the Holy Spirit is that as an extension of God, it is very humble. The fact that we call it wind. Something you can’t see, yet we know it’s very powerful. With regard to space, it is estimated that there is more energy in the dark areas of space, the areas where you don’t see anything because of how the universe is expanding.

There’s more energy in those dark areas than all of the energy that you can see combined. Where does it come from? If we attribute that to much of the same power as the Holy Spirit, I can just say that energy is still there. It’s right there, right now, and with regard to wind, that was the word that God had chosen to describe this.

We can feel it when we’re out and the wind is blowing on us. You can’t see it, but you know it’s there, and you want to know how strong it is. You can see storms, but that’s anybody anywhere on the planet. But it’s more than that.

And again, he used the word wind. So you know what else God did? He put a planet close enough that we can see it, and at some point in human history, you can observe this planet and see that there’s a storm on it.

That storm on Jupiter, there’s a lot of wind and it’s big, about 10,000 miles across. That storm is so big it could swallow the entire planet. It’s wind. That was the word he used. You can’t necessarily see it, but it is beyond your imagination on how powerful it is.

Over. We can see the destruction that comes about with a hurricane or a tornado. But that’s part of this wind that the Holy Spirit is described as. Thank you. Let’s move along.

How were the prophets moved to Right as they did, and I’d like brother here to read 2nd Peter 1:21.

Yeah. The prophecy came not in old time, but by the will of man, by holy men, of God, spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, and this Percy emphasizes that the prophecies and writing in scriptures did not originate from human ideas or desires, but they came from God’s power and influence. The phrase moved by the Holy Ghost suggests that the Spirit guided or carried along the writers, ensuring that the recording was truly God’s message. That’s it, over.

Thank you. Anyone else have any thoughts about how the prophets were moved to write as they did?

Sister Kathy?

Yeah. I’m not sure how they were moved to write as they did. But my comment may touch upon the next question. But I. I do believe that they were moved by the Holy Spirit, even though they were not spirit begotten.

The Holy Spirit, and I really can’t define how the Spirit allowed them or allowed their minds to write as they did. But they were not spirit begotten. They did not have the Holy Spirit within them. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Sister Julianne.

I wanted to read from the prophet Jeremiah because, you know, being a prophet is pretty difficult because usually what you have to announce is not very pleasant. But it’s true. It’s true and it’s powerful, and Jeremiah was discouraged, like he didn’t want to share anymore, because what for? They don’t listen to me anyway.

And he said in Jeremiah 29, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart, a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay. It means like he was trying to hold those words, but they were so powerful, he just could not hold them. He had to speak them.

That’s how the Holy Spirit was just moving them. There’s no other way. You have to speak what the Lord tells you to say. Thank you. Yes, thank you, Brother David.

It is interesting to contemplate how the Holy Spirit worked upon those that wrote the various portions of God’s word number one. Their personalities and their characters often came out in the way that they wrote. So the Holy Spirit didn’t take them over, like possess them or something like that, but rather it guided their thoughts, guided their hands, so that they would write down the things that God wanted written down, and you can see the fingerprint of the Holy spirit across the 1600 years during which the Bible came into existence. From the writings of Moses all the way to John.

There are commonalities in it. There is no way that all of these men, I don’t know how many there were, 40, 50, 60 men who were involved, could have collaborated in saying, all right, what can we do to have some theme? These are men that lived at different times, different places, and yet there is a commonality. There is a thread of truth that goes through all of them.

The way that they use symbols, the way that they describe the visions that they had, and in many cases, they wrote down things that they didn’t understand. As Daniel, for example, the inspired word of Daniel, near the end of the book of Daniel, he says, what does this all mean? Sorry, sorry, Daniel Seal it up, Go thy way. It’s not time to give an explanation.

So it is remarkable to me how the Holy Spirit worked in that way in the inspiration of the Scripture. Now just making application of that, as was mentioned already, that these men were not spirit begotten. I think Sister Kathy mentioned that. So this is an outward or an external role or operation of the Holy Spirit. They were not begotten to new life.

You and I are. We have access to the Holy Spirit to guide and direct us. You know, I hesitate to use the word inspire, but it comes out. There are things in our lives that are inspired by God that we do or say, places we go, circumstances that we handle and manage, and all of that is part of the Holy Spirit operating in us.

So as much as we marvel at how it was used in these ancient worthies of old, we have it even better over. Thank you, Brother Jeff. When I think of this question, I think of Jesus final evening with the apostles after they had the memorial supper and they’re walking on the way to Gethsemane. Jesus tells them lot of things and these are his last messages to them. So he wanted to make sure he was giving them something very, very important to remember.

So In John chapter 14, verse 25, Jesus says, I have spoken these things to you while being with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, remind you of everything I said to you, and so, you know, in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit gave more of a perception, more of an understanding as well as the remembrance of what had been said in the Old Testament, it was more the knowledge. Like when the Holy Spirit was given to give them the instructions how to build the tabernacle. They had the knowledge of how to do it, but they didn’t have the perception of what it meant.

Over. Thank you. Did I see a hand over here, Brother Vivian?

Yeah. When you get into this specific topic about not just the profits, I mean, I think it applies to the whole scriptures in general about how much interconnectedness you’re, you’re dealing with. Because not only are you dealing with, you know, 40 plus authors over multiple continents over thousands of years, they have to not only, you know, write what they’re moved to, but they have to relate to each other. It’s not an individual piece of writing for each individual thing, and I’ve shared this in our class and I wanted to share this as well, see if I can pull it up.

It kind of is a pretty neat little visualization Here, I can show you if I’ll ever pull it up. Of course, it’s probably a start.

Let’s see.

So this specific graphic is looking at every single chapter in the bible from Genesis 1 to Revelation, the end of Revelation 22, and that’s every little tick mark at the bottom is each chapter, and what you see is this is over 63,000 cross references in Scripture, and so you look at this, you know, you can look it up online, type in, you know, Old Testament, New Testament, prophecies fulfilled graphic, and this will pop up and some individual put this together, and this is kind of the interconnectedness we’re talking about.

It’s not just, oh, you know, you look at Revelation 22, I see a tree, boom, Genesis 1 tree. No, you’re talking about thousands and thousands, and, you know, you really dig into it, as we all know as students of the Bible, that they all have to connect, and there can’t be a contradiction in here, as we know. You know, when your average, you know, Bible reader or scholar who may not be a Christian is like, oh, there’s a couple contradictions in there.

None of these can contradict, you know, and if we call the Bible a perfect book, then all 63,000, you know, it’s. It’s almost like you’re doing matrix algebra at that point. 63,000 by 63,000 row matrix. So all these interconnected, and, you know, when I first saw this, I thought.

I thought it was pretty cool, and I thought I’d share with the brethren as well. Thank you, Sister. You have a comment?

I just wanted to give a cross reference. Second Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives, and it corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. Thank you all.

Scripture inspired of God. Yes, Brother Keith?

Yeah. Brother Ken and I were having a little discussion on the way up this morning, and he said something I thought was interesting, the way he phrased it. You know, when Jesus got baptized, the Holy Spirit opened his mind to higher things. You know, the heavens were open to him, and that thought we delineate the difference between receiving the Holy Spirit in us as a form of the new creature or being influenced by the Holy Spirit and that thought of opening our minds to the heavens, meaning opening our minds to God’s Spirit.

Several brethren have given examples today. You know the tabernacle Peter, when he said, you’re the son of the living God, you know, Jesus told him, well, you didn’t get that from flesh and blood. That came from higher thinking, and even before Pentecost, the apostles had the influence of the Holy Spirit given to them by Jesus. In Matthew 10:1, it says, and when he had called unto him his 12 disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

So even before they had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, he had given them the ability to cast out unclean spirits and heal sicknesses and diseases, and so that kind of gives us an understanding more of in the kingdom, when it says, God will fill the earth, his spirit will fill the earth like the waters of the seas. You know, it’s going to be a great time that people will really see the influence of God’s spirit, and I think, you know, I’ve heard that we only use like 12% of our brains. Well, when the curse is lifted, I think that mankind will be capable of much higher thinking and be able to connect to God better.

And we have the advantage now by being in his word. That channel is opened up for us to have higher thinking and to think in spiritual terms, and it opens the breadth and depth and height of our understanding of God. Yes. Thank you, Brother Homer.

So this is why, as Bible students, we cannot be selective in picking out scriptures that we like that favor a particular point of view. I was thinking about what Brother Niven showed us, and I was thinking about what Sister Renee said and putting them together about the all Scripture, and, you know, when our Lord, during his ministry, when he was talking about the Scriptures, he wasn’t talking about the New Testament because it didn’t exist. He’s talking about the Old Testament Scriptures, and so, you know, we cannot say that this set of scriptures is more valuable than the other set that we.

You know, there’s an old saying among those who hopefully are not of our fellowship that, oh, there’s enough in the fifth chapter of Matthew to save any individual. It’s got to be the whole thing, and we, if we want to be. I don’t want to use the word honest, but if we want to show that we’re true, real, we are really truth seekers, we must go and search, and I don’t want to use the word justify, but prove it all through all the available resources and not exclude something that doesn’t favor our opinion.

Thank you. Okay, thank you. I think we need to move along a little bit. The next question, which Sister Kathy alluded to Is how was the Holy Spirit used differently in the gospel age? And we got Acts 2:38.

And brother Keith, if you have it, could you read it for us? Acts 2:38.

I said, sorry, I wasn’t prepared. Okay, Acts 2:38. Then Peter said unto them, repent and be Baptize every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost. Okay, Brother Paul, so that’s exactly what I was going to comment on. To recognize the gift and that is associated with another word.

The gifts and callings of God are without repentance. God does not have to be ashamed for selecting or offering the high calling in Christ Jesus. But how thankful we should be for that gift, and so the difference between the gospel age and the ages before, I think is described in Hebrews 12, Hebrews 11. The biggest difference is, you know, the bottom line.

They without us shall not be made perfect. Well, why without us? Well, us it’s because Jesus came at the appropriate time, and without Jesus, you. There couldn’t be an us.

We are part of the Christ, and so that’s the ultimate fulfillment of how the Holy Spirit works in any individual. It worked by faith through all those ancients of old, and they were sanctified by God’s Holy Spirit. There’s no doubt about that.

Faith only comes through understanding God’s words and obeying God’s word. But they didn’t live, as we know, when Jesus spoke about John the Baptist. They just didn’t live into the age where the ultimate gift, I think, is what we’ve received through the sacrifice and through the understanding of God’s word through his Son, Christ. Over. Thank you.

Sister Kathy mentioned the prophets of old were not spirit begotten. What does it mean to be spirit begotten in the gospel age? It’s not on the outline, but Sister Kathy and then Sister Julianne.

Well, I understand. Spirit begotten is to have the Holy Spirit within your mind. You have a new mind. You see things. Old things have passed away.

New things become new. I don’t believe that as faithful as the servants of old were, they received this new mind. They just didn’t have it. I don’t believe, and I think that’s what the Holy Spirit does for the new creature. They were not new creatures.

Thank you. Thank you, Sister Julianne.

Well, we, you know, when we answer the high calling, we renounce, you know, earthly hopes and aims. So the hope of, you know, coming back to the kingdom is giving up because we want to be priests and kings. So becoming, you know, at this higher level, becoming new creatures and being called to this holy Office, this Spirit help us to be trained for that office, and in this present time, we gain all the knowledge, the understanding and the experience that we will need for that office. So constantly when we think of the Holy Spirit, yes, it’s first you have to deny yourself.

You have to make a consecration, and when our offering is accepted by our Heavenly Father, he grant us this Holy Spirit to help us understand the deeper things of God. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Brother Ken, an MP first Peter 1:3.

I think we’ll read through five. It says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved from heaven for you, we who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, and the word begettal, here, the word begat can be used in either with the feminine or the masculine, and in a masculine, I think that a begettal means the beginning of life in the womb, and so that when we are begotten by the Holy Spirit, we are begotten by the holy power of God.

And through that consecration, to be part of the Sarah covenant, and we are nurtured through that. So begettable, I think, is an inheritance that would be incorruptible and undefiled and fadeth not away. This is the mystery of God to us. So that where that is what is begun, in my opinion, at our begaddle.

Thank you, Brother Keith, and then Brother Homer. Yeah, along with that, I think the pastor alluded to we’re like embryonic new creature, and here again, it’s a process. We’re begotten.

But the begettal isn’t complete until birth, until we go beyond the veil and we become. Our spirit being is born. But right now, we are developing that embryo. Not we, but the Holy Spirit. I view that umbilical as feeding me.

Everything I need spiritually is the Holy Spirit, and it comes from the Father, and that’s why we just. That’s a good picture of it, is that on this side of the veil, we’re in the embryo. We’re learning, growing, developing, maturing, and hopefully we’re faithful in that. So.

So that when we go beyond the veil, we can be born to a glorification okay, thank you, Brother Homer. Yeah. The last two scriptures or last two comments. I just want to make a point, and it really transitions into question number five.

I would say think about begetto and adoption. I think the preferred concept is not the spirit of adoption. It’s the spirit of begetto, because we are not really adopted. It’s a new creation that a seed is implanted for us. So think about the natural order of things.

You can have a child that you beget, or you can have a child that you adopt. End of common. Okay, thank you, Brother David.

Just to back up what brother Homer just said, adoption isn’t the best word. The Greek word there is huothesia, and it means sonship. The word for son in Greek is huios, and so this is not merely an adoption, but it is something new. I think one of the comments already called it the new creation, something that comes into existence that never existed before.

Someone asked when we were talking about new creation. They said, doesn’t the scripture say there’s nothing new under the sun? Well, the new creation is not under the sun. It’s above the sun. It’s something way above this physical universe and new.

So some of the Bible translations use the word sonship instead of adoption, and I think that’s more. More precise. Over. Okay, thank you.

Let’s look @Number Question 5. Romans 8:15, and Sister, could you look that up for us? Romans 8:15 and Ephesians 1:5. Sister Karen, you have it?

Yeah.

Okay, I’m reading from the new living translation. Okay, so you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him Abba. Father.

Father. Okay, King James says, spirit of adoption, what did de stay God’s spirit when he adopted you as his own children? His own children. Okay, so mentioned that sonship is really the thought more than adopting. Although we become God’s children through the beginning of the Holy Spirit.

You know, originally it was. It was only the Jews. Then it was open to the Gentiles to come in.

Brother Keith and then brother Michael.

That’s okay. Oh, read your scripture. Did you want me to read the scripture first or them? Go ahead, go ahead, read it. Okay.

Ephesians 1:5, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ himself according to the good pleasure of his will. This is a King James. Maybe a better translation would be in another. Thank you, Brother Keith.

The term adoption, I always viewed that as by national origin or religion. I’m not a Jew. I’m not the chosen people. But through this adoption I made a spiritual Jew, the stars of the heavens, and that’s how I think of adopted.

But my father is the father of spiritual Jews and literal Jews. But I’m still his son. Yeah, okay, Brother Paul. No, Jeff, that’s a compliment. Paul is my father.

So anyway, I’m looking in the Moulton’s lexicon published in 2021 and it talks about adopting individuals to be heir of their property if they didn’t have their own children. But I like a couple paraphrases and on this Romans passage, one of them is from the New Albany Notes, and I like it because I had a discussion with a Jehovah’s Witness in Chicago at Brother Richard Doctor’s house recently and they were asking, well, why don’t we use the name Jehovah? And the reason for me was simply our relationship. We have this special relationship with, with our father that they simply don’t have because they are only friends of God.

They’re not children of God. They expect to be on the earth. They’re not in that same intimate kind of relationship. But we can call him Abba, Father. So in the New Albany Notes, the brethren paraphrase this verse this way.

It says, as sons you have not received a spirit of slavery. This would only return you to your fears, but instead you have received the spirit of sonship. Dearest brethren, you may in all sincerity and without fear address your new father as Abba. You are now a part of his intimate family, and then one other paraphrase, and this is a.

A modern paraphrase, the Message Bible, and it does go a little bit too far. But I think the last question really brings home the point, and the message translation says, the resurrection life which you receive from God is not a timid grave tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike, what’s next, Papa?

Thank you, brother.

Okay, I’m going to bridge a couple topics here from the beginning. So we of course ask, what is the Holy Spirit? And to differentiate throughout the Bible the difference between the Spirit and the Holy Spirit, we’ll go first to Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiastes 3:21, and the preacher asked, who knows if the Spirit rises up from the. Sorry, the Spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animals go down to the earth.

Of course, he’s talking about the breath, the breath that we are all innate with from birth, which is the breath of life that we are given from birth. Also the same breath of life that is moving along the face of the earth, the breath of creation, and we move forward from there, of course, to the New Testament, and here, hold on, I forget which verse I was going to bring up next. Oh, there you are.

I was going to make a call back to what Brother Jeff had pointed out with John 14:26. But the helper. This is from New American Standard. But the helper, the. The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you the things and remind you of all that I told you, and when he says he will send him in my name, he’s alluding to the ransom. We are children after the ransom, after the sacrifice of him. Jesus, his sacrifice, and we are made alive in his sacrifice.

And we will jump forward now to second Corinthians 5:16.

So that. So that we from this time respect no man.

Sorry, no one, on the account of the flesh, and even if we esteem Christ on the account of flesh, yet we no longer thus regard Him. I don’t like that translation. But he says, we know no man after the flesh, but after Christ. So we now have the adoption through Christ, through his ransom.

And I had a few more verses, but for time’s sake, I’m going to move on. Let others speak. Oh, two other verses I’m going to paraphrase, because I have one on hand, but not the other. Jesus is calling a disciple, and he says, but first let me bury my Father, and he says, let the dead bury the dead.

And then, of course, Jesus also lootes, saying that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, and I’ll. Let’s move along.

Question 6. How does the Holy Spirit work in your daily life after consecration? And I have Ephesians 5, 18, if. Jeff, do you have that? Can read it.

Ephesians 5, 18. Yeah, and do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit. How are we filled with the Spirit? That’s kind of the main point in our topic, Brother Brandon.

Yeah, and as you just mentioned this, the whole. Your whole topic is exactly that. How can we be filled with the Spirit every day? And that’s what we’re all essentially not just commanded to do.

But that’s what God wants. He literally desires. It’s almost like we are holding him back from filling us with His Holy Spirit, that we’re the impediment. So it’s like any good Father, and of course, we have the best Father of them all.

And what does Jesus say? If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them who ask him? And so this filling. So we have this, and this is just the way I see it.

I don’t know if it’s wrong or someone else has a more complete view, but we just discussed being begotten by the Spirit. That’s like stage one. Everyone who’s consecrated is begotten by the Holy Spirit, let’s say, for argument purposes.

And then we have a couple of other things. Walk after the Spirit, not after the flesh, and be ye filled with the Holy Spirit, and as you were asking, how do, and that’s the kind of, I’ll say the goal of your study, even though we only have about 10 minutes, is how. Because I know plenty of us feel like we would really love to have more of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives.

I don’t know. I’ve never talked to a brother or sister that said, I’m good there, I got enough, I’m full up, and I think it’s something we know individually whether or not we are filled with the Spirit, whether or not we are walking after the Spirit. I think these are, if we’re honest with ourselves, these are things that we do know. I don’t think they’re mysteries or, gee, I’m not really sure if I’m filled with the Holy Spirit.

I don’t think it’s that kind of thing, and I’ll just say, and you mention it in this question, which I think is right on, you know, spot on. How do we empty ourselves of self, will or the spirit of the world? And that’s the big so being. How do we become filled with the spirit while we’re all filled with something, every last one of us, we are full.

There’s no person of at least some moderate degree of sentience and natural understanding that isn’t already full. So we are all filled with something. It’s just do, what are we filled with? And if we’re filled with something, we don’t want to be filled with the spirit of self, the spirit of the world, whatever. How then do we displace that spirit of self and the spirit of the world and all these things that are in us, how do we displace them with God’s Holy Spirit so that we can actually be truly be filled with the Spirit?

And so I’ll just leave it there. Since our time, it looks like Karen has a Sarah Sister, you have A comment. So I’m just going to bring up something that. Oh, okay. Oh, sorry.

The. The wise and foolish virgins. You know, there’s a lot of debate on what the oil is, but the oil’s always been the Holy Spirit. So we all have the wise and foolish. Both have the oil, but the wise are filled.

And so that’s how I view that now. They are full of the Holy Spirit, as that scripture is every day, and so that’s where I want to get to over. Okay, Brother Paul, in keys very quickly, this word filled can also mean increasing. So we want to always be increasing in the Holy Spirit and that it’s used in when it’s talked about Jesus.

The child continued to grow, become strong, increasing in wisdom. That’s the word filled. It’s also translated filled with wisdom, increasing in wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him, and so we want to be always increasing.

We don’t want to go the other way, which is described in many places of if we live after the flesh, we’re going in the opposite way of being filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay, Brother Keith and then Jeff, just a couple illustrations. One, I mean, we’ve seen before. You have a glass of water. The world is mud and Holy Spirit’s clean water.

Well, like Brother Brendan said, we have this glass, it’s murky water, and the Holy Spirit continues to pour into us, and if we’re not adding more mud, as time goes by in our sanctification, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer, and hopefully by the time we’ve developed, you know, past the fourth quarter mark, our love, that water is as clear as we can get in this flesh. The other example that goes along with it, hand in hand, is you have a satellite dish and a satellite.

And if you don’t align that dish to the signal to the Holy Spirit, that channel of God’s communication to us, you’re going to get a weak signal, and that’s not God’s fault. That’s up to us to align that, and we do that by getting into His Word and studying it so we understand what we’re receiving, and we have to keep that in mind.

You know, it’s not just we sit there and like, okay, I’m waiting on God. I’m not feeling it today. You know, that’s mostly because we’re not aligned. Yeah. The question seven here, how does the study and reading of Scripture help to be filled with the Spirit?

So maybe you can incorporate that into your comment, Brother Jeff.

My wife had a comment first and then I’ll add to. I’ll combine 6 and 7. It was already mentioned. I was just going to say that I would go back to the study. Study from Yesterday with Romans 12:2.

Transforming of the mind. There has to be a transformation and emptying of our old self and becoming something new. Okay, thank you, and I think Brother Keith’s comment really answers number 7. Keep filling with the spirit.

And if you look at the meaning of this word, to be filled, that’s what it means in the Greek, and so this. This word is used also in Philippians 4:18, where it says, but I, having received everything in full and have an abundance, I am amply supplied, and so having this abundance, this is like when you’re drinking too much alcohol, you have an overabundance. Well, some of the translations in the Philippians passage really makes the point.

It says, Moffatt’s translation says, your debt to me is fully paid and even more than paid, and Goodspeed’s translation says, you have paid me in full and even more, and so that’s the way it is with the Holy Spirit. If we can be filled with the Holy Spirit by, you know, studying and reading scripture to be overfilled, it helps get rid of the. It fills the time in a proper way to get rid of all the imperfections that Brother Keith was talking about.

Okay, Sister Gabriella. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate all the comments. This is a topic that I, you know, have struggled with a lot of, and so I appreciate the discussion because I’ve always struggled with understanding what the Holy Spirit was like.

I know the wind thing and all that, but understanding how it works in our lives, like, it has always felt so distant, and so I really appreciated the idea that it kind of is supposed to be, you know, so I’m not. Maybe I’m not supposed to understand it fully.

The only how to. That I’ve ever been able to find in Scripture on how to be filled is just to pray for it, and I think maybe because I have felt like I didn’t understand it, I kind of felt, like, unworthy to pray for it, and I mean, I still did, but it kind of was like, sorry, God, I don’t get it. Can I still have some?

Maybe, you know, like, it wasn’t. It wasn’t like, claiming the promise, you know, and so.

So maybe we’re supposed to just boldly claim it and pray for it, and that’s kind of what came to mind is the story of Nahum, I think, is it? Or maybe not, I don’t know. Okay, that one leper who. Who I think the prophet Elisha maybe was the one who was like, you know, he traveled all that way to go see him.

And Elisha was like, okay, all you have to do is go dunk seven times, and he was like, are you kidding me? And he left, and then the servants were like, yeah, but that’s a pretty easy one. Maybe you should just try it.

And so it feels similar where God’s, like, I told all you have to do is pray for it, and maybe that’s all we have to do. Like, I don’t know, does anyone have maybe like a testimony of that happening in their lives? Because also from the discussion, it feels like maybe it’s not. Not that it comes and goes, but it’s not like, oh, I’m filled with it.

And now forevermore, I will be filled with it. You have to continually get more of it. So if anyone has, like, sort of a testimonial example of praying for it and getting it, maybe that would be helpful. I don’t know. For me.

Anyway, thank you, Sister Julianne, and I saw a number of hands.

Well, Jesus was filled with the Spirit, and we only have a little, and as we grow, the Lord increases it. But as it was said, it’s only as we emptied ourselves of self that this can grow, and the Scriptures help because it’s the perfect guidance. But then we have to practice it.

So how do we practice it? And I like him, 2:29 O to be nothing, a broken and emptied vessel for the Master’s use made meet, emptied that he might fail me, as forth to his service I go broken that so unhindered his life through me might flow. This is powerful for me. It’s really, really powerful. There is a work to do, you know, subduing the flesh, you know, striving, fighting against that flesh with all our heart so that we can empty ourselves of self to make room for that spirit.

And as we grow in the Spirit, we grow to cherish God’s ways more and more, and that allows us to have more of it, and when we don’t understand, we don’t get something. Father, don’t help me to get more. Just help me understand what it is and then help me how to desire it more and in order to get it more. But it’s about emptying self so that we make room for this spiritual way of thinking, of acting, of speaking, of understanding.

And that comes from being broken and also allowing the experiences to work in us, to understand when we are broken, when we go through difficult circumstances, but we see God’s perspective, not the earthly perspective. That is about self pity, and, you know, I’m just enduring. No, it’s about what are the lessons I’m learning in everything I’m going through. What is God’s perspective?

What is he teaching me? How can I use this experience to transform myself? So thank you. Thank you. One of the questions was, how does the singing or playing of hymns help to be filled with the Spirit?

So the lessons in our hymns often touch our hearts and lift us up. Brother David.

Okay, third time was the charge. I want to add another word to the discussion. It’s been said a couple of times the word power. The word power comes from the Greek word dunamis. We think of the English word dynamic or dynamo.

It’s all from the same root and it has to do with power. The Holy Spirit working in our lives from. Well, actually from before our consecration. I’m of the opinion that, you know, when the Lord is choosing us, that he is doing a lot of things in our early life, preparing us for when we get to the point where we can see enough of the truth to make a consecration. But it is God’s power.

And we’ve used that expression. But what does that mean? What does the word power mean? Well, there’s the expression in the world, I need more power. What does it mean?

We don’t have enough energy to accomplish a certain thing. That’s what power does. It’s the force that allows us to accomplish things in our consecrated life. The very highest objective in our lives is to be just like Jesus. That’s what we’re going to be judged on.

Not how much we know, not the level of our knowledge and understanding, but how like our Lord are you. That’s the final test.

Some of you say, well, Brother David, isn’t the final test love? Well, yeah, being like Jesus, that’s love. So in our lives, we ask the Holy Spirit, we ask for the power from God to be able to accomplish different things, and I like Gabriela’s invitation to think back in your life, you know, where have you had a position where you said, or a situation, I don’t think I can do this. I don’t know.

I have a real doubt whether I can do it or not, and we pray for the power of the Holy Spirit and we find what we’re able to do it. You know, I’ve had many times in my life where brethren come up to me and they said, brother David, I want to talk to you about A personal matter, and right away, inside, I have fear. They’re coming to me for advice from Scripture, and it’s an accountable and it’s a scary thing.

And almost always when someone says that I’m praying internally, Lord, give me the words, and I don’t know if this is exactly the type of experience you’re asking for, Gabriela, but I know on more than one occasion there have come out words from my mouth that I don’t know where they came from. They were wise words, didn’t come from David Stein, came from the Holy Spirit. It’s what that brother or sister needed at that point in time. I think that’s one example to be able to accomplish things in our ministry of sharing the truth, to be able to make preparations for meetings and things like that.

This all comes from the power, the dynamic of the Holy Spirit. We ask for it. He gives us what we need to be able to accomplish a certain thing. So just like with the Heavenly Father, we’ve seen several scriptures that he sends forth His Spirit, His Word. Things are created, things happen.

Well, the same can be true of his sons. We have the sonship of God, and he wants us to accomplish certain things. You know, most important, again, being like Jesus, but in our relationship with one another. So we should avail ourselves of the Holy Spirit. We should invoke the Holy Spirit to be able to accomplish things in our life.

Many, many promises say, I will do this if you ask. All we have to do is ask.

Brother Michael.

Yes, we’re given some help from our Lord in Matthew, chapter 12, verse 43, regarding filling of the Spirit and the need for it. He says, when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest and finds none. That he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out, and when he is come forth, come. He finds it empty, swept and garnished.

Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there, and the last state of the man is worse than the first. This is a condition that after coming to Jesus and being cleansed of our sins and we’re set on the right path, we need to continue to fill ourselves with the Holy Spirit, make ourselves available to his influences. You know, praying, fellowshipping with the brethren, Bible study, or there is that risk that not doing those things, we could get even worse, feel worse off than when we began over. Okay, thank you.

Another question I had here was what other readings would be beneficial, such as devotionals and volumes. Brother BRENDAN so obviously being what our fellowship is, and this is a journey and I really appreciate Sister Gabriela’s question because it’s an honest question, and to be honest with you, I think most brethren have the same or going through, to one degree or another, the same experience that we know we’re missing something or we’re not taking, we’re not seizing our full birthright that we’ve been that God wants us to take, and so with regard to that specific question that you just asked, the pastor does mention it’s fairly scattered throughout his writings because of his writings were on so many different topics.

One I would strongly recommend, and I know that this is a bit of a point of contention, but it’s a brother from the 1800s, Andrew Murray, wrote a book, Spirit Christian. Spirit Filled Christian, I think it is, and you can actually go, I actually enjoy listening to audiobooks when I read, my brain loses focus very quickly. So on the audiobook you can go to this place called Librivox and you can listen to it chapter by chapter, and it’s exceptionally good.

You just kind of have to every once in a while because he, you know, I’ll say he has the nominal mind virus when it comes to the Trinity. You hear that pop up occasionally. But most brethren, you can filter that out. Aside from that, and that’s very infrequently when it comes up. I strongly recommend, I think it’s the Spirit Filled Christian or Spirit Filled Life by Andrew Murray.

It’s free, you can listen to it online, it’s not copyrighted, and it is exceptionally, exceptionally good, and the reason it is good is because it doesn’t just like right now we’re defining the problem and it’s like that proverbial thing where someone’s drowning and you’re describing the water. So we’re putting out a lot of definitions and going through a lot of information. But as far as the practical aspect of how.

Yeah, that’s all nice and good, and I. But it’s. I liken it to. You don’t need to understand the workings of the internal combustion motor to drive a car.

I mean, most people couldn’t tell you how the motor works. They just get in, they turn the key and they go. Or now they push a button. But that’s the. I think the same thing with us.

We don’t necessarily need to drill down deep at the PhD level of what is the Holy Spirit? How does the Holy Spirit operate? How does it, you know, all these things. I think this is A great study for that. Get me wrong.

But as far as the practical aspect of how do we. Individually. How do I. Me. Become filled with the Holy Spirit to.

As ma. You know, and again, I think, Brother Keith, yesterday. I’m sure it is a process. I mean, I’d love it to be instantaneous. But right now, just in our journey with Sister Karen and I, this is a question we never asked.

For the first, I’ll say, 35 years of my consecration, it was never on my radar, but now it is. I do want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and every single day, every minute of every day, without exception, to the maximum extent, and I know I can’t do it. It is literally an impossibility for me.

I cannot do it in my own strength, and no human can and ever has and ever never will be able to. It has to come from the Lord in his strength, and so how do we. Essentially, for lack of a better way to put it, how do we let God do what he wants to do in us?

What’s the process of surrender and abiding and waiting on the Lord in order to be filled with the Holy Spirit? Over. Okay, Kathy, and in peace, and then I send Paul at his hand.

Yeah, we’re gonna run out of time. Okay, I’m gonna be brief because I looked at this question before and I was trying to think, what do I do? If indeed I am looking for a way to provide some sort of comfort without looking at the devotions or the volumes. I could only think of two examples, and they may or may not be good, but there’s a sister, and I don’t know what her name is, but she puts together poems, and I’ve read those poems, and they’re spiritual poems.

And the other thing is, which I don’t know how many brethren do this, but I go through my hymn book, and I’ll look at the hymns and I’ll read them. So those are my two choices. Thank you. Okay. Brother Keith, I was going to say, you know, we’ve said a lot of good things.

Remember the discussion about the vessels? Jesus was a perfect human being. Paul tells us we’re leaky vessels. Well, if you have a vessel that’s leaky, it requires maintenance. You have to continually replenish.

And what you replenish with, is it the Holy Spirit or is it the spirit of the world? You have to be careful, and we already gave that example. But in Philippians 4. Eight, you know, the question was asked.

In your question, it says, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true. Whatsoever things are honest Whatsoever things are just Whatsoever things are pure Whatsoever things are lovely Whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Well, that’s how we do it. Whether it’s scripture, volumes, poems, hymns, you know, not what’s going on in politics, not what’s going on, you know, in your car club. But these things are what replenishes that pure water, that Holy Spirit.

Brother Paul and then Keith, and we’ll have to close.

Yes. On my car club. It’s my pickleball club.

I just want to say something that Brendan, that in response to what Brendan said, it’s impossible to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Because if you look at that concept, it’s like a water balloon. It’s just. You’re gonna. It’s gonna be expanding and expanding and expanding.

So it’s a. It’s a process. We have to look at it as not an end goal, but the process of being regenerated, being washed and so forth, and so, you know, I’m filled with the Holy Spirit, though, when I’m singing. I’m sorry, I’m filled with the Holy Spirit.

It’s just, and, and to me, that’s. That’s life. That’s my life, is to have a song, the melody in my heart and mind and be able to express that.

Now, everybody should know this one thing, the formula for salvation, and it’s very easy to remember Romans 10:10. For with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness. With the mouth we confess, resulting in salvation. That’s the formula.

So the word of God has to come into our minds. The Spirit of God goes down to our hearts, comes out of our mouth. That’s how we are sanctified. That’s how we are saved. Amen.

Thank you, Brother Ken. Well, I know we’re out of time, so I’m going to suggest that one way to be more filled with the Holy Spirit and scriptures that could be used is Ephesians 2, chapter 4, and I would suggest especially verses 22 through 30. 32, yeah. That’s the grace of the Spirit.

Yeah. Okay. Brother Ben,

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