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    The Spirit-Filled Life

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Spirit-Filled Life" by John MacNeil. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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      The Spirit-Filled Life - John MacNeil

      John MacNeil

      The Spirit-Filled Life

      EAN 8596547131786

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION.

      PAGE

      THE

      PREFACE.

      THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      CHAPTER VI.

      CHAPTER VII.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      CHAPTER IX.

      CHAPTER X.

      CHAPTER XI.

      CHAPTER XII.

      CHAPTER XIII.

      CHAPTER XIV.

      CHAPTER XV.

      CHAPTER XVI.

      CHAPTER XVII.

      CHAPTER XVIII.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      I have been asked by the publishers to write a few lines introducing this book to American Christians. I count it a privilege to be allowed to do so.

      The one thing needful for the church of Christ in our day, and for every member of it, is to be filled with the spirit of Christ. Christianity is nothing except as it is a ministration of the Spirit. Preaching is nothing, except as it is a demonstration of the Spirit. Holiness is nothing except as it is the fruit of the Spirit. These truths are so little taught or emphasized as they should be, and the blessings they speak of are so little experienced that one gladly welcomes every voice that draws attention to them.

      It is known that all do not perfectly agree as to the best answer to the question: How to be filled with the Spirit? Some press that aspect of truth which reminds us that the Holy Spirit has been given to the church and that He dwells in every believer, a fountain of living water. As there have been fountains clogged by stones and earth, and only needing to be cleared and opened up, so we have only to remove the hindrances, to yield ourselves in perfect surrender to the Spirit in us, and the filling will come. We must not ask God for more of the Spirit. God asks for more of us that the Spirit may have us wholly.

      Others, while admitting fully that the Spirit is in the believer, and that He asks for a more entire surrender, yet urge that it is from God direct that the filling of the Spirit must ever still be asked and received. God cannot give His spiritual gifts apart from Himself, once for all. As the divine and everlasting One, He gives unceasingly. The Spirit has not been given as if He had left heaven. He is in God and in the church. It is from God Himself that larger measures of the Spirit must ever be sought and received.

      Among those who hold this latter view, there is again somewhat of a diversity in the representation of truth. On the one hand we are reminded that it is "by faith" we receive the Holy Spirit, and that faith often has to rest and to act without any conscious experience—has to walk in the dark. Souls that are fully surrendered to God are invited to claim the promise and then to go and work in the full assurance that the Spirit is in them, and will in His fullness work through them. On the other hand stress is laid on the words "we receive the Spirit by faith. The difference between believing and receiving is pointed out, and we are urged to wait until we receive what we claim, and know that God has anew filled us with His Spirit. To be filled with the Spirit" is offered us as a definite, conscious experience.

      With still other Christians there is to be found what may be regarded as a combination of these different views. They believe that a very definite, conscious filling of the Spirit been received by some, and may be had by all. Though from their own experience they cannot testify of it, they still look for God to do for them above what they have asked or thought. Meantime they know that God's Spirit is in them, and seek grace to know Him better, and to yield themselves to Him more undividedly. They believe that the Spirit within them is Himself leading them on to the Lord above them, whose it is to fill with the Spirit. They have claimed in faith the fullness; they have placed themselves to be filled; they look to their Lord to fulfill His promise. Whether it comes in one swift moment or more gradually, they know it is theirs.

      I have written this with an eye to those who may not entirely agree with the way in which the truth is presented in this little book. I wish to urge all, especially ministers of the gospel, to give it a prayerful reading. I feel confident it will bring them help and blessing. It will deepen the conviction of the great need and absolute duty of being filled with the Spirit. It will point out the hindrances and open up the way. It will stir up faith and hope. And it will, I trust, bring many a one to feel that it is at the footstool of the throne, in the absolute surrender of a new consecration, that the blessing is to be received from God Himself.

      And may this book stir up all its readers, not only to seek this blessing for themselves, but to cry earnestly, praying exceedingly day and night, "for all Saints," that God may throughout His whole church give the Holy Spirit in power. It is when the tide comes in, that every pool is filled, and all the separate little pools are lost in the great ocean. It is as all believers who know or seek this blessing begin to pray as intensely for each other and all their brethren, as for themselves, that the power of the Spirit will be fully known. With the prayer that this Spirit-filled book may be greatly blessed of God, I commend it to the study of His children.

      ANDREW MURRAY.

      London, Dec. 1, 1895.

      PAGE

      Table of Contents

      Introduction—Andrew Murray 3

      Author's Preface 9

      Introduction to first Australian edition 13

      CHAPTER I.

      The Starting Point 17

      CHAPTER II.

      Every Believer's Birthright 19

      CHAPTER III.

      A Command to be Obeyed 21

      CHAPTER IV.

      Something different from the new Birth—Proved from the Case of (1) The Apostles—(2) The Samaritans—(3) Saul of Tarsus—(4) The Ephesians—Unclaimed Deposits 23

      CHAPTER V.

      Everybody's Need 29

      CHAPTER VI.

      Preventive Against Backsliding 31

      CHAPTER VII.

      How long Between the New Birth and the Filling? 34

      CHAPTER VIII.

      Other New Testament Names for Being Filled with the Spirit—(1)

      Baptized with the Holy Ghost—Baptized into One Body,

      What it means—(2) Rivers of Living Waters—(3) The Promise

      of the Father—(4) Pouring Forth—(5) The Gift—(6)

      Receiving—(7) Falling—(8) Coming—(9) Sealed 36

      CHAPTER IX.

      How Obtained?—(1) Cleanse—(2) Consecrate—(3) Claim 47

      CHAPTER X.

      Wrong Motives 48

      CHAPTER XI.

      Cleansing—A New Heart not necessarily a Clean Heart—What is a Clean Heart?—Not Sinlessness—Blameless, not Faultless—I was alone in the Twilight—Cleansing a Crisis, not a Process 49

      CHAPTER XII.

      Consecration: What is it?—(1) Sanctification—(2) Surrender—(3)

      Transference of Ownership—(4) Enthroning Christ 72

      CHAPTER XIII.

      Claiming—(1) Prayer—(2) Laying on of Hands—Claiming and

      Asking—Through Faith the Blessing Made Ours—Objections

      Against This 87

      CHAPTER XIV.

      How Does it Come?—Aorist Tense: Were Filled, Refilled, A

      Crisis—Imperfect Tense: Were being Filled, A

      Process—Present Tense: Full, the Normal Condition—Deacons

      Full of the Holy Ghost—Illustration of Water

      Trough—Illustration of Service Pipe 91

      CHAPTER XV.

      Its Effects—(1) Courage—(2) Fruit of the Spirit—(3) Reach the

      Masses—(4) Persecution 104

      CHAPTER XVI. May One Know that he is Filled?—(1) From the Testimony of the Word—(2) The Witness of the Spirit—(3) Signs Following 117

      CHAPTER XVII.

      May One Say that He is Filled?—Testifying to

      Forgiveness—Testifying to Full Salvation 120

      CHAPTER XVIII.

      May One Lose the Blessing?—By Disobedience—By Neglect of the

      Word—It will be Found Where it was Lost 122

      THE

      Table of Contents

      SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE

      BY THE LATE

      REV. JOHN MACNEIL, B. A.

      INTRODUCTION BY THE

      REV. ANDREW MURRAY

      Be filled with the Spirit—Eph. v. 18

      Chicago

      THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION

      250 LA SALLE AVENUE

      PREFACE.

      Table of Contents

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