The Holy Spirit Teachings of Great Preachers

                                                 The Holy Spirit: Teachings of Great Preachers & Teachers of the Past

I. Three Conditions of the Holy Spirit's Working (F .B. Meyer)

    A. Filled [A Sudden Decisive Experience for a Specific Work] (Acts 4:8)

    B. Being Filled [The Ongoing Process] (Acts 13:52)

    C. Full [The Perpetual Experience] (Acts 6:8)

II. Three Types of Christians (D.L. Moody)

   A. Saved & Satisfied (John 3)

   B. Water Bubbling Up (John 4)

   C. Rivers Flowing Through (John 7)

III. Two Conditions to Living the Spirit-Filled Life (G. Campbell Morgan)

   A. Abandonment ['Let Go'-Charles Trumbull] 

      1. To Purification (Ephesians 4:30,31)

      2. Of Whole Being (Romans 6:13)

   B. Abiding (John 15)['Let God'-Charles Trumbull]

      1. Christ Abiding In  Us (John 15:4)

      2. Christian Abiding In Christ (To abide is to obey-I John 3:24)

IV. Three-Fold Ministry of the Spirit's Power/Fullness through the Believer

   A. Ministry To Sinner (Acts 1:8)

   B. Ministry To Saved (Colossians 3:16,17)

   C. Ministry To Self (Ephesians 5:18,19)

V. Descriptions of the Holy Spirit's Working (Ruth Paxson)

   A. Filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18) EVENT/Crisis-Pentecost

   B. Full of the Spirit (Acts 6:5, 7:55) STATE/Condition-Deacons/Stephen

   C. Filled with all the Fulness (Ephesians 3:19) PROCESS/Continual-Believers

VI. Yielded Life is the Key to Spirit's Filling-Yielding (Ruth Paxson)

   A.Yielding/Surrendering/Emptying: A Defininte Voluntary Transfer of Undivided:

         1. Possession 

         2. Control  

         3. Use of the whole spirit, soul & body from self to Christ

         4. Yielding/Surrendering/Emptying: A Definite One Time Act of the Will (Romans 6:13,16,19, 12:1,2)

    B. The Yielded Life Waits for Faith to Claim the Fullness of the Spirit

         1. Faith Claims the Promises: Christ Liveth in Me (John 14:17,20,21,23, 15:4,5)

         2. Faith Claims: I Can Do All Things Through Christ (Philippians 4:4)

         3. Faith Claims: Christ in you the Hope of Glory (Colossians 1:27)

         4. Faith Appropriates Christ As Life (Colossians 3:4)

         5. Faith Claims the Birthright of the Fullness of the Spirit in Christ: (Colossians 1:19, 2:9,10)

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