Spirit Filled Gives You A View Of God

Most of the time, we can kind of balance things in our life, can’t we? Take the concept of sorrow. Okay, we’ve got sorrow over here on the scale, and happiness over here, right? And we go through life and a little bit of sorrow and then we think of something happy, see? Or, well, it’s not going too well at home, I think I’ll go to the office, see, it’s better. No, it’s not going too well at the office, I think I’ll go home. See, we balance this thing off, you know, we talk about sad things, we don’t want to talk about it anymore, let’s talk about something happy, see? But every once in a while, we can’t keep that balance, you know, the person we love the most dies, foom.

See, all of a sudden, the scale is all the way down on the sorrowful side, and nothing anybody says and nothing anybody does can take away the sorrow. Filled. And that’s when that word would be used. It’s totally dominating. On the other hand, you’re going along, happiness over here, and sadness over here. Aunt Martha dies and leaves you 50 thou. Whoa, on the happy side, you know, and it doesn’t matter. The world can go down the tubes, I got 50 thou. See? Never expected it. Now, all of a sudden, you’re filled with happiness.

And that’s the concept of the word. You’re totally dominated by it, and you don’t need any equilibrium. Sadest thing going on around you is totally uninteresting to you. You’re happy. And that’s the way life goes, you know? There may be things that keep us secure, and things that scare us and give us fear. And we go along a little bit and, oh, you know, a husband gets a raise, and we get a new house, and the kids are doing great, and we feel so we’re filled with security. On the other hand, some disaster happens.

Terrible. We’re scared to death. You know, it’s the middle of the night, and somebody’s poking around the windows. Whoa, see? You know, that’s pleroo. It’s to be controlled by that emotion, so that you no longer can keep your balance. You’re out of it. You’re out of control. You’re controlled by that which influences your thinking and your emotion. Now, the same thing is true with how we live the Christian life. You know, this is the way most of us go. Here’s self over here, and here’s the Holy Spirit. We say a little bit for self, a little bit for the Holy Spirit.

Oh, a little bit for me. See? And that we kind of… But all of a sudden, at some point in time, we yield to the Spirit of God, and totally self disappears, and we’re filled with the Spirit. Everything is controlled by Him. All of our emotions. All of our acts of will. All of our thinking processes. That’s what it means to be filled with the Spirit, you see. That’s the heart of the matter. It is the idea of being moved along. It is the idea of being permeated, so you have the flavour of Jesus Christ.

But it is also the idea of being controlled by, and a firm hand of control. Let me give you an illustration. Look at Matthew 4.1. Matthew 4.1 says this. Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. Now here’s the Holy Spirit operating in the life of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, it says, led Jesus. He led Jesus, all right? Now let’s go to Luke 4.1. He led Jesus in Matthew 4.1 to the temptation. In Luke 4.1 we have the same incident, the temptation, the same situation, but here it says, now watch.

And Jesus, being full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Now what was the condition by which the Spirit led him? He was what? Full of the Spirit. Do you see what being filled with the Spirit means? It means to be led by the Spirit, to be controlled by the Spirit. Now if you were to go to Mark chapter 1, Mark chapter 1, the same thing is dealt with again, the temptation of Jesus. And in Mark 1, 12, it says, and immediately the Spirit.

And it uses the word ekbalo, drives him into the wilderness. And that is a really strong word. He drove him into the wilderness. He thrust him into the wilderness. In other words, Jesus himself was under the power of the Spirit of God, so that the Spirit of God literally drove him where he wanted him to go. He was controlled by the Spirit of God. And that’s why later on, when they came to Jesus, and they said, what you do, you do by the power of Satan, he said, you have blasphemed, not me, but whom? The Holy Spirit.

Why? Because he had yielded the control of his life to the power of the Spirit of God. He was full of the Spirit, and that’s why he was driven by the Spirit. Listen, to be filled with the Spirit, beloved, is that same thing. It’s the idea of being driven by the Spirit of God, of being moved by the Spirit of God, of being permeated by the Spirit of God, of being controlled by the Spirit of God. That’s the issue. And that’s what we’re talking about. We’re talking about living your life under the control of the Spirit of God.

He’s there. And if you don’t live that way, you grieve him on the one hand, and you quench him on the other hand. You grieve him. That’s how he personally feels sorrowful. You quench him. That’s how you restrict what he’d like to do. So you are really dealing with his person negatively, and his purposes negatively. And by the way, unless you’re filled with the Spirit of God, you’re no use. I used to use the illustration of a glove. If I have a glove lying here, and I say glove, go play the piano, what’s the glove do? Glove doesn’t play the piano, it just sits there.

If I put my hand in that glove, and then play the piano, what happens? Chaos. March of the wee folk, you know, that was it. I quit after my first recital, went into baseball, but you know, the glove, you put a hand in the glove, and a glove just goes. The glove doesn’t get pious and say, oh, fingers, show me the way to go. Doesn’t do that. And a glove doesn’t fight you saying glove, please respond. No. Glove just goes. Well, as a Christian, you’re a glove, and you can lie around on the table and grunt until you die.

But you’re never going to affect anything for God until you’re filled with his Spirit. Because a glove can’t do anything without a hand. And you can’t do anything without the energy of the fullness of the Spirit. Everything you try to crank out on your own is done in the flesh and is useless. It’s at best stubble, not gold, silver, precious stones. So what the Scripture is saying here is that you need to be filled with the Spirit of God to be effective, to fulfill the worthy walk, to fulfill the love walk, light walk, wise walk, to do anything for God, to walk in wisdom.

You must be filled with the Spirit of God. You must be permeated by his person. You must be born along by his power. And you must be controlled by his presence. Now, let me show you something. You know, unless you’re that way, you’re useless to the Lord. I mean, he can’t do a thing with you. It’s a waste of time. Functioning in the flesh reaps absolutely zero. Whenever the Lord wants a job done, he always gets somebody full of the Spirit. In Acts 6 and verse 5, they needed some men for a special job.

And so what were the qualifications? Acts 6-5, and the saying pleased the multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit. They chose him because he was full of faith and full of the Holy Spirit. And it says in 755, but he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right side. Boy, I’ll tell you, to be filled with the Spirit just takes you right out of this world, doesn’t it? To be filled with the Spirit gives you a view of God.

To be filled with the Spirit detaches you from the system. To be filled with the Spirit means I could care less what happens to me as long as he is glorified. He just looked up and saw the glory of God. It’s a transcending thing. It’s a transcending reality. You move right out of the world, right out of your circumstances, right out of your vicissitudes, right out of your trials, to see God, see. Whenever God wants a man for a job, he wants a man full of the Spirit because it may wind up the man getting stoned.

And if he isn’t filled with the Spirit, he’ll never be able to handle that. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of Spirit-filled, gives you a view of God. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].