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I wish to urge all Christians, especially ministers of the gospel, to give The Spirit-Filled Life 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 I trust it will bring many people 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.May this book stir up all its readers, not only to seek this blessing for themselves, but also to pray earnestly that God may give the Holy Spirit in power throughout His whole church. It is when the tide comes in that every pool is filled and all the separate little pools are lost in the great ocean. As all believers who know or seek this blessing begin to pray as intensely for each other and all their brethren as for themselves, this is when 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 MurrayAbout the AuthorJohn MacNeil was born in Scotland in 1854 and was raised in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. He was educated at Ballarat College and Melbourne University, earning a B.A. in 1874. He studied theology at New College, Edinburgh, and was ordained in 1879. MacNeil was a Presbyterian evangelist and minister, and in 1881 he began touring Australia as an itinerant preacher. MacNeil married Hannah Thomas in 1884, and they had five children. But their marriage was a short one, as MacNeil collapsed suddenly and died at the age of forty-two while on tour in Queensland in 1896. His wife, Hannah, wrote his biography, John MacNeil: Late Evangelist in Australia, in 1897.
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The Spirit-Filled Life
Restoring a Biblical Understanding and Experience of the Holy Spirit
John MacNeil, B. A.
Be filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18
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Editors Foreword
S ince John MacNeil first wrote The Spirit-Filled Life in 1894, much has changed in our world. Yet the truth found in the Word of God is timeless. This makes the heart of MacNeils message timeless as well.
We have edited this modern adaptation in order to add clarity to the language and expressions MacNeil used over a century ago, meaning this book has been significantly edited from the original. Chapter divisions have been modified, and we added subheadings. Yet in the process, weve been careful to stay true to the heart of the message and to MacNeils unique writing voice. We have researched terms to provide an appropriate substitute from todays vocabulary. Our goal is to bring a new audience of readers to appreciate the timeless message about the importance of being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Added reference information and biographical notes provide a starting point if readers wish to complement their reading with additional research.
The Scriptures used throughout the book have been updated to the New American Standard Bible , except for as noted where the author used a phrase that was specific to another translation.
We hope to provide a new understanding of what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit a life-changing experience that transcends any barriers of time and applies to readers of yesterday and today.
Introduction
by Andrew Murray and H. B. Macartney Jr.
by Andrew Murray and H. B. Macartney Jr.
I have been asked 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 for being a ministry of the Spirit. Preaching is nothing except for being a demonstration of the Spirit. Holiness is nothing except for being the fruit of the Spirit. These truths are so seldom taught or emphasized as they should be, and the blessings they speak of are so seldom experienced, that one gladly welcomes every voice that draws attention to them.
We know that all do not perfectly agree on the best answer to the question: How can we be filled with the Spirit? Some press the aspect of truth that reminds us the Holy Spirit has been given to the church and that he dwells in every believer, a fountain of living water. In the same way as there have been fountains clogged by stones and earth that only need to be cleared and opened up, so we only need 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 so that the Spirit may wholly have us.
Others, while fully admitting that the Spirit is in the believer and that the Spirit asks for a more entire surrender, will still urge that we must ask for and receive the filling of the Spirit directly from God. 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 always be sought and received.
Among those who hold this latter view, there is again some 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 it 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 work through them in his fullness. On the other hand, some stress 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 filled us with his Spirit again. To be filled with the Spirit is offered us as a definite, conscious experience.
With still other Christians, we find what may be regarded as a combination of these different views. They believe some have received a very definite, conscious filling of the Spirit and this 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. Meanwhile, they know Gods Spirit is in them and they seek grace to know him better, and they seek to yield themselves to him more undividedly. They believe the Spirit within them is himself leading them on to the Lord above them, whose role it is to fill with the Spirit. In faith they have claimed 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 I trust it will bring many people 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.
May this book stir up all its readers, not only to seek this blessing for themselves, but also to cry earnestly, keep praying most earnestly (1 Thessalonians 3:10) for all the saints (Ephesians 6:18), that God may give the Holy Spirit in power throughout his whole church. It is when the tide comes in that every pool is filled and all the separate little pools are lost in the great ocean. As all believers who know or seek this blessing begin to pray as intensely for each other and all their brethren as for themselves, this is when 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
Introduction to the American edition, December 1895
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Christian reader, I pray that before you finish this little book you may become so eager, so intense in your longings after God, that you will not be satisfied until you are really and actually full of him and filled with the Holy Spirit.
When the Lord asked Job, Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you? (Job 38:34), he would undoubtedly have answered no.
On the other hand, with all humility but without the slightest hesitation, we can answer yes. Abundance is the Fathers will; the provisions of life in Jesus are abundant. The stream of the Spirits energies is abounding forever and ever.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed. (2 Corinthians 9:8)
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