{"id":367,"date":"2009-10-27T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/october-qspirit-filled-an-individual-responsibilityq\/"},"modified":"2015-11-01T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T04:33:31","slug":"october-qspirit-filled-an-individual-responsibilityq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/october-qspirit-filled-an-individual-responsibilityq\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Filled: an individual responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local church is made up of individual believers.\u00a0 Each believer comes into the church by testimony of his faith in Christ exhibited by believer\u2019s baptism.\u00a0 The local church is the earthly expression of the body of Christ and must keep itself pure, by all human means, of unbelief within its members.\u00a0 Only in this way can the church fully represent and display the holy character of Christ to the world.\u00a0 So we find in Scripture a common pattern:\u00a0 \u201cThen they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls\u201d (Acts 2:41).\u00a0 First conversion to Christ, then water baptism, and only then membership in the local body of believers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The church, then, is a unique organization which operates as a free congregation under the Headship of Christ and His Word.\u00a0 The members are equally children of God and all possess the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The church acts as a democracy in that final decisions are voted on by the whole congregation, even the calling of a pastor and the election of the deacons.\u00a0 We often say that we are all \u201cbeliever-priests\u201d under the one high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, since the Scripture plainly says that we are \u201ca holy priesthood\u201d and a \u201croyal priesthood\u201d (1 Pet. 2:5, 9).\u00a0 This is why Baptists have held to a congregational form of church government.\u00a0 The two church offices of pastor and deacons are given due respect but even each of them has only one vote in congregational matters.<\/p>\n

Since we believe this arrangement is truly biblical, it presents a great responsibility as well as a great danger.\u00a0 The danger is that the church would become filled with members who are truly saved and baptized but not filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 Though we believe that all true believers possess the Holy Spirit from conversion, the filling of the Spirit for daily walk becomes a continual command for the believer in this life (Eph. 5:18).\u00a0 It is entirely possible for a church to have more members who are not Spirit filled than who are!\u00a0 In this case, the possibility of such a church making biblical and wise decisions is thrown to the wind.\u00a0 The decisions are made from human wisdom and understanding, but not from the leadership of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

The great responsibility, therefore, is for the whole church to strive to be filled with the Spirit and for the leadership of the church to guard this great occupation at all costs.\u00a0 Ephesians 5:18-21 and Colossians 3:16 tell us that when we are filled with the Spirit, we will be (as a result) teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace, making melody in our hearts to the Lord.\u00a0 In Hebrews 13:15-16 we find that we may offer spiritual sacrifices to God which are the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.<\/p>\n

When Spirit filling is missing, the church will rely on human emotion for its comfort, various methodologies for its fruit, and symbolism for its substance.\u00a0 This has often been the case in every age of the church because there is no guarantee that people will seek to be filled.\u00a0 In times like ours, imitations abound because they are easier and are more comfortable to carnal Christians and to the world.\u00a0 When people want success rather than spirituality, growth in numbers rather than in knowledge, friendships rather than fellowship, human effort alone will accomplish those much easier and will not bring with it that uncomfortable conviction of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 But filling is not an automatic phenomenon that comes by turning on a switch.\u00a0 It comes by yielding ourselves to the Spirit as we live out the New Testament Biblical faith.\u00a0 Rather than seeking hidden formulas, we will find the way to the filling of the Spirit clear and open to every believer.\u00a0 It sounds like an old list but that is because it has been true for two thousand years.<\/p>\n

Scripture<\/h2>\n

Paul\u2019s command for us to be filled with the Spirit in Ephesians 5 is paralleled by the command to let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly in Colossians 3.\u00a0 The Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs come as a result of this filling, not as means to that end.\u00a0 All of Scripture is the command of Christ to us and we should not expect to remain in fellowship with Him if we are disobeying His Word.\u00a0 It is by the Word that the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin (Heb. 4:12) and then cleanses us from our ways (Psa. 119:9).\u00a0 Disobedience to the Word causes the Spirit to be quenched (1 Thes. 5:19) and grieved (Eph. 4:30).\u00a0 How could we expect that the same Spirit would be filling us if He is offended?\u00a0 Sanctification is the process by which the Holy Spirit makes us holy.\u00a0 A believer who dislikes that process dislikes the Holy Spirit Himself.\u00a0 Paul wrote, \u201cFor God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.\u00a0 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit\u201d (1 Thes. 4:7-8).<\/p>\n

Paul admonished the Corinthians that their carnality was keeping them from the meat of the Word (1 Cor. 3:1-3).\u00a0 We cannot feed on the Word when sin is dominating our lives and we are remaining babes not adults.\u00a0 The writer of Hebrews desired to write of deeper things concerning the priesthood of Christ, but the readers could not handle the meat of the Word because their senses were not exercised in the deep things of God (Heb. 5:12-14).\u00a0 We cannot expect to be filled with the Spirit and only open our Bibles for Sunday school and church or for a coffee shop Bible study.\u00a0 We need extended time in the Word.\u00a0 With all of our technological advances, our modern day has robbed us of time in the Word.\u00a0 Though we have the Word available in more forms than ever before and though we can access it from more avenues than ever before, we still do not take the time.\u00a0 That same technological age keeps our schedules full and robs us of every hour of the day.\u00a0 George Gallup said, \u201cAmericans revere the Bible — but, by and large, they don’t read it.\u00a0 And because they don’t read it, they have become a nation of biblical illiterates.\u201d1<\/sup> Jeff Brown wrote, \u201cThe average unbeliever in America 200 years ago knew more of the Bible than the average member of an evangelical church does today.\u00a0 Daniel Wallace contends, \u2018We are a generation away from biblical illiteracy on a scale that mirrors the middle ages.\u2019\u201d2<\/sup> We must again find the time to read the Bible if we are to be filled with the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Prayer<\/h2>\n

Jonathan Edwards said, \u201cPrayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life; and to say a man lives a life of faith, and yet lives a prayerless life, is every whit as inconsistent and incredible, as to say that a man lives without breathing.\u201d3<\/sup> J. Oswald Sanders said of prayer, \u201cIt is indeed the Christian’s vital breath and native air.\u201d4<\/sup> Prayer is the life blood of the Christian life.\u00a0 \u201cThe effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much\u201d (Jas. 5:16).\u00a0 An unrighteous man doesn\u2019t pray and that is largely why he is unrighteous.\u00a0 Paul tells us\u00a0 that the Holy Spirit waits beside us when we pray to interpret our prayers before the Father (Rom. 8:27).\u00a0 We don\u2019t even know what would be best to ask, so the Spirit helps \u201cour infirmities\u201d because He has the same mind as the Father.\u00a0 A Spirit filled believer is a believer who prays.<\/p>\n

A Spirit filled man is not necessarily the one who prays long prayers in public, though he might.\u00a0 Many times the one who prays long in private prays short in public.\u00a0 But the only factor that really counts is whether a person prays with the help of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Jesus Christ has opened the door into God\u2019s presence so that we may come boldly before the throne of grace (Heb. 4:16).\u00a0 The Holy Spirit, then, helps our prayers as they come up before the Father as sweet smelling incense (Rev. 8:3), whose eyes are over the righteous and whose ears are open to our prayers (1 Pet. 3:12).\u00a0 We must find time to pray if we are to be filled with the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Church<\/h2>\n

R. Kent Hughes recently wrote, \u201cIt is my considered belief that those who do not have the local church at the very center of their lives are likely not to make it as Christians through the opening decades of the third millennium.\u201d5<\/sup> There is an antipathy toward the local church in our day.\u00a0 People want to malign it, change it, profane it, abuse it, and refuse it; anything, it seems, except use it.\u00a0 But the local church is God\u2019s program for this age of grace which exists between the first and second comings of Christ.\u00a0 The church belongs to Christ and He is its Head.\u00a0 We are commanded not to forsake our assembling together with other believers in our local church, and even more so as we see the day of Christ approaching (Heb. 10:25).<\/p>\n

Since the Holy Spirit indwells every believer (1 Cor. 12:13), and the local church is the place where believers gather together, it is obvious that a believer needs to be in that meeting for the benefit of the Spirit\u2019s work in his life.\u00a0 \u201cFor where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them\u201d (Matt. 18:20).\u00a0 When the Lord spoke to the pastors of each of the seven churches of Revelation, those letters were always ended with, \u201cHe that hath an ear to hear, let him hear, what the Spirit saith unto the churches\u201d (Rev. 2:7).\u00a0 The Holy Spirit builds us up spiritually through the life of the body.\u00a0 A Spirit filled believer, then, is not one who neglects the church.<\/p>\n

Family<\/h2>\n

A believer may be in one of a number of different family situations.\u00a0 The New Testament has many admonitions to various family members.\u00a0 Husbands are to love their wives; wives are to obey their husbands; parents are to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; children are to obey their parents (Eph 5:25-6:4).\u00a0 A believer who does not provide for dependent ones in his family is worse than an infidel (1 Tim. 5:8).\u00a0 When a husband is not the husband he ought to be to his wife, his prayers are hindered before God (1 Pet. 3:7).<\/p>\n

Above all, members of a Christian marriage or family are brothers and sisters in Christ.\u00a0 It is a shame when some treat strangers with more brotherly love than their own family.\u00a0 Many marital problems are solved when a husband and wife remember that they are first brother and sister in Christ.\u00a0 A home ought to be the place, above all others, where believers show true Christian character.\u00a0 Churches cannot expect to see the blessing of God when their members are carnal six days of the week at home and pretend to be Spirit filled at church on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our family relationships are vital to the filling of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Witness<\/h2>\n

Can a believer effectively share the gospel while not being filled with the Spirit?\u00a0 Will a truly Spirit filled believer not make attempts to share his or her faith?\u00a0 One of the important pieces of the Christian armor is the feet which are shod with the preparation of the gospel (Eph. 6:15).\u00a0 When Peter stood to speak during the days of Pentecost, it says, \u201cThen Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them\u201d (Acts 4:8).\u00a0 Similarly, when Paul preached on Cyprus, it says, \u201cThen Saul, (who also is called Paul), filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him\u201d (Acts 13:9).\u00a0 Paul quoted David when he said, \u201cWe having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak\u201d (2 Cor. 4:13).<\/p>\n

It stands to reason that if the Holy Spirit has filled the believer, he will have a God-given desire to share the gospel, the good news, with souls which are lost.\u00a0 Since the Holy Spirit\u2019s job in this age is to convict the world of sin and judgment (John 16:8-11), a believer who is filled with that same Spirit will be speaking the gospel.\u00a0 Also, the believer who desires to be filled ought to endeavor to be involved in evangelism.<\/p>\n

And So . . . .<\/h2>\n

As individuals, as families, and as churches, we are commanded by God to be filled with the Spirit.\u00a0 If we are to salt our world and shine light upon its darkness, it must be through Spirit filled believers through whom God can powerfully work, even with the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead and now lives and works in us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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