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The other day, we'd been working long and hard

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here in the office, and it was time for a meal,

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and I said, Maggie, I think what I need is a

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good piece of meat. I haven't had steak for a

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couple of weeks, and I'm tired. Mabel just kind

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of picked me up, and so she and I went to a place

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where... We'd never eaten before. And I heard

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that they specialized in steaks, and I felt I

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needed some meat. And so we went into the place,

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and I tell you the truth, it was the best piece

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of meat that I'd had for months and months. Especially

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good. It was just great. And then, before we

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got ready to go, Maggie got up at the table for

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something and the chef, the man who had prepared

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our steaks, went over to Maggie and said very

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quietly, Are you Ruth? She smiled and said no.

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I'm Maggie. He said, I saw Miss Kuhlman come

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in. And I never miss her broadcast. Tell her.

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Just tell her. I love her old -fashioned cornbread.

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And if that chef is listening to me right now,

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I want to say, You keep those good steaks coming.

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Oh, sir, your steaks are wonderful. And I'll

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keep the good old -fashioned Missouri cornbread

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coming. And it's just like that. I'm going to

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talk to you again about something that, um...

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It's so vitally important. Oh, sure. We've been

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speaking about the Holy Spirit, and you know

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how real the mighty third person of the Trinity

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is to me. And I've spoken to you regarding the

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person of the Holy Spirit, the use of the personal

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pronouns. And we spoke of him regarding his intellect.

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I've spoken to you regarding the activities of

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the Holy Spirit. He guides. He confirms. He communes.

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He intercedes. He teaches. He reveals. He impels.

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He restrains. He speaks. He defends. Oh, the

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work of the Holy Spirit is marvelous. And we've

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spoken to you. in these heart -to -heart talks

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regarding many of these things, literally the

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activities of the Holy Spirit. But do you want

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to know something? Of all the doctrines in the

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realm of the person and the work of the Holy

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Spirit, there is none more important as it relates

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to the believer's Christian life than that of

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the feeling of the Holy Spirit. And I believe

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that I receive more letters asking me how can

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I be filled with the Spirit than any question

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that is asked me. Ms. Coleman, you speak of this

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wonderful experience, and it is the greatest

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experience. that a human being can know is that

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experience of being born again. Without it, the

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richest man in the world is poor. And with that

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wonderful experience of being a Christian, of

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being born again, the poorest man in the universe

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is rich. Nothing is more vitally important to

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any human being. Nothing is as glorious their...

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There is no experience known to man that is more

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important than that experience of being born

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again. Then there comes that experience of being

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filled with the Spirit. And that experience is

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for every man and every woman who's been born

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again. If you're a Christian, if you've had that

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experience of regeneration, then this second

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experience is as important. This second experience

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is a part of your inheritance. It is in the plan

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of God that you receive this vitally important

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experience of being filled with the Spirit. But

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somebody says, Ms. Kuhlman, how can I be filled

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with the Spirit? The Apostle Paul gives us a

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command. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess,

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but be filled with the Spirit. It's a command.

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Read it. It's there in the fifth chapter of Ephesians,

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the 18th verse. Literally, look at it. It isn't

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something that's optional. Paul says, but be

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filled with the Spirit. Now, what does the apostle

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have in mind when he says, be filled with the

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Spirit? Now, this word, filled, may be used in

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two different senses. In the original text, There

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are two different Greek words, both translated

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filled. One seems to suggest a filling up. You

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might take a glass and a pitcher of water and

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you pour the water from the pitcher into the

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empty glass so that water fills up the glass.

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The disciples on the day of Pentecost were filled.

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up with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit moved in,

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came into dwell, and His presence was manifested

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in the believers. That's understandable. But

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watch something. The second word seems to have

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the added thought, not only a presence, but a

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power that manifests itself through the individual

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who is filled up. Not only as the water was poured

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into the empty glass, there was more than that.

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There was a power that manifested itself through...

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That glass having been filled up with water.

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There's more than just being filled up with the

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Spirit. There is more than just an empty vessel.

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There's more than just you being filled to Spirit.

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More than just me being filled to Spirit. That's

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glorious. That's wonderful. But there is a place

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where we are so filled up, not only with his

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presence, but a power that manifests itself through

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the individual, through the one who is filled

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up with the spirit. The word is used of sails

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that are filled with the wind. Now, the result

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of filling sails with wind is that the boat moves.

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The sails are not truly filled with the wind

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when the wind simply builds them out, but they

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are in the same sense filled with the wind when

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the boat is moved or carried along by the wind

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that is in the sail. And in this scriptural sense,

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when the Apostle Paul is talking about the familiar

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spirit, He's talking not only about the spirit

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indwelling in a person, but about the added thought

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that the one who indwells moves the one who is

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filled into a new course of action and produces

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a new kind of life, a life of power. Oh, that's

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glorious. This can be illustrated in the Upper

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Room Discourse when our Lord takes the disciples

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aside and emphasizes the truth that he's to be

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taken away from them, that he's going into death,

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and that there'll be a resurrection. But remember,

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death and resurrection meant a separation from

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them. Our Lord says, Because I have said these

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things unto you, sorrow hath... filled your heart.

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What does it mean to have a heart filled with

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sorrow? When sorrow controls a person, it dominates

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him. It produces a new life, a new outlook. Even

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the facial expression will change. If we would

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understand what Paul is trying to teach us in

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the fifth chapter of Ephesians, in place of the

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word filling or filled, Use the word controlled.

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We would not be amiss and would make plain what

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Paul says. Do not be drunk with wine, which produces

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riotous living, but be controlled with the Spirit,

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which produces psalms and hymns and spiritual

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songs. It produces the giving of thanks. It produces

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submission. It produces power. It produces a

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new life. So Paul brings this contrast to us

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to teach us that as a man may yield himself to

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the control of alcoholic beverages, one can...

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also yield himself completely to the power and

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the person of the Holy Spirit to the extent where

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the Holy Spirit will control his life and his

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being. The Spirit produces a new walk. The Spirit

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produces new speech, a new manner of life. Do

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you want to know whether one has been filled

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with the Holy Spirit? There will be power in

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that life. That life will be dominated, will

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be controlled by the Holy Spirit. But you say,

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how can I be filled with the Spirit? I'll give

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it to you in just a few words. Turn over to Jesus

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yourself and all you have. You say, is it that

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simple? It's that simple. I repeat it. Turn over

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to Jesus. yourself, and all you have. This is

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the crucial point. And if you bungle this, you

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block the whole thing. Between two persons, there

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is no love without an inward self -surrender

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to each other. If either one... withholds the

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essential self from the other, love is blocked.

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It'll not spring up no matter how hard you try

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to love around and pass that core of an unsurrendered

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self. You cannot love fully unless there is an

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unsurrendered self. So between you and Jesus.

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There can be no love without an inward self -surrender.

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You cannot be filled with the Holy Spirit until

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there is an inward surrender of all that you

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are and all that you have. The real You surrendered

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to him. Not the surrender of this thing or that

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thing. Some people miss it entirely by saying,

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well, I surrendered this thing or I surrendered

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the other. It's not the surrender of things.

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It's the surrender of you. The essential you.

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And he feels that which you surrender unto him.

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All that he wants is you. And when you turn over

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to him yourself, You don't seek him. You don't

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seek something. You don't seek an evidence. You

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turn yourself. You commit yourself. You surrender

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yourself. An inward self -surrender to... Jesus.

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And when you have surrendered to him completely,

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the Holy Spirit will fill the vessel. Not only

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filling it to the full, but there will be the

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outward manifestation of the power of that one

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who has filled you with himself. Being filled

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with the Spirit is that simple.