How To Live A SPIRIT-Filled Life Galatians 5:16-25 Dr. David Higgs --January 17,2021

 

1.   The HOLY SPIRIT-Filled  life seeks to obey the command of Ephesians 5:18.

2.   The HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life has a deep desire to be filled with the SPIRIT.

3.   The HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life is totally surrendered to the HOLY SPIRIT.

4.   The HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life seeks to live a holy life.

Holiness  --- separation from sin

5.   HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life can recognize the whisper of the HOLY SPIRIT.

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Romans 12:1-2

King James Version

 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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6.   HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life is totally dependent upon the HOLY SPIRIT.

7.   HOLY SPIRIT-Filled life is guided by the HOLY SPIRIT.

Holiness is living our life on GOD'S terms.

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Evidence That I am  Filled With The SPIRIT

• Bearing fruit
• Using my Spiritual gift
• Willful rejection of sin
• Purpose of the filling of the HOLY SPIRIT is to Glorify GOD!

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Application

1. The filling of the HOLY SPIRIT will affect your whole person.
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   Romans 6:1-2

   King James Version

    What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

3. A SPIRIT-Filled life will bless others.

4. John 7:38

   King James Version

   He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

5. Hear the whisper of the HOLY SPIRIT through Word and through Prayer.
   
6. We are filled for a purpose.