What happens in your life when the Holy Spirit takes control? How will you know you are truly Spirit-filled? Will you speak in tongues? Will you be healed? What will happen? The New Testament suggests a number of answers to that question. But one answer stands out above all the rest. It is the great evidence that you have truly been filled with the Holy Spirit. When you are truly filled with the Spirit, you will have boldness to preach the gospel. Look at Acts 4:31. “They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.” That’s a pattern you find repeated throughout the book of Acts. As the believers are filled with the Spirit, they begin to share Christ openly. It happens in Acts 2, in Acts 4, it happens to Stephen in Acts 6, and to Paul in Acts 13. Let me state it very clearly: When the Holy Spirit fills your life, he also opens your mouth! Sometimes we get it all backwards. We talk as if the filling of the Holy Spirit is primarily to help us feel better about ourselves. And we pray to be filled so that we will live more obediently or walk with God more closely. Those things are noble and good, but they are by-products of the Spirit-filled life. God fills you with the Holy Spirit so that you will open your mouth and say a good word for him! Or to say it another way, the Holy Spirit gives holy boldness so that God’s holy people will take the holy Word of God and speak it boldly to an unholy generation. Amen.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:36:58 +0000
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