Samuel Morris: A Spirit Filled Life by D.E. Reed

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Scripture Teaching Concerning the Holy Spirit in His Ministry to Christian Believers

  1. “Born of the Spirit”—John 3:5-6, 8. Through the channel of our faith, believing that “Jesus is the Christ,” the life of God is imparted to us. I John 5:1.
  2. “Baptized of the Spirit”—I Corinthians 12:13; Romans 6:3; Ephesians 4:5. This baptism secures the position of the believer. By it he is put into the body of which Christ is the head, the true Church. This gives him an inheritance in Christ to be apprehended by a growing knowledge and appropriated by a growing faith. The burden of the apostle’s prayer for believers is that they may know and appropriate the riches of this inheritance. See Ephesians 1:18.
  3. “Sealed by the Spirit”—Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; II Corinthians 1:22; II Timothy 2:19. This is the act of God who sets His stamp, or seal, upon the life of His believing people. The Spirit Himself is the seal, for His presence in the life marks the believer as belonging to God. It implies ownership and holiness.
  4. “Indwelt of the Spirit”—I Corinthians 6:19; II Corinthians 5:5; Galatians 4:6; I John 4:13. From the moment one becomes a true child of God by faith in Jesus Christ, he is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
  5. “Filled with the Spirit”—Ephesians 5:18; Acts 6:3; 9:17; 11:24. The Spirit-filled believer is the divine ideal both for life and for service. The Christian believer born of the Spirit, baptized of the Spirit, sealed and indwelt by the Spirit, may also be filled with the Spirit. (This was the secret of the life of Samuel Morris. He realized in experience the abundant life.) The condition for the Spirit-filled life is that of a sincere yielding of our lives to God on the basis of such Scriptures as Romans 6:13-14; Romans 12:1-2.
  6. “Walking in the Spirit”—Galatians 5:16, 25. This means to walk in reliance upon the Spirit who dwells within the child of God. It is the life of faith, the practice of dependence upon Him to do the things that he has come to do. See John 14:26; 16:13-15; Romans 8:2, 26.
  7. “The Renewing of the Spirit”—Titus 3:5. This is a process by which the divine life within us is renewed and strengthened and the character of the believer conformed more and more to Christ.