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GG How does it apply to us today—being “filled with the Holy Spirit”?

JT Just the same as then. The question is whether we make room for Him. It is a remarkable feature in Acts and in Luke, the thought of being filled by the Spirit, and the allusion is to the fact that there was room made. The way to it, doctrinally, is found in Romans 7, where the analysis is made as to what is in each of us; we are enabled to name the things there and see how God has dealt with them; then they are not allowed a place in us.

God has judicially dealt with them, so we righteously disallow them, and in proportion as that is done, the Spirit has place in the Christian. His presence ceases to be mere theory, and becomes real power in the soul. “These are not full of wine, as ye suppose”, Acts 2: 15. They were rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.

J. Taylor (Vol. 41, p.235)

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