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A person filled with the Spirit has only one object---a risen and glorified Christ, whom the Spirit came from heaven to glorify.
"If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you," Rom. 8:9.
In the most simple unmistakable terms we have here the great essential of Christian blessing, "If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you." A mistake on this point, therefore, is a mistake about the very vitals of Christianity. Pause, then, my reader, before we proceed. Face this matter honestly, and solemnly consider how you stand.
A real Christian is one who has received the Holy Spirit; and you are, this moment, really indwelt of the Holy Spirit, or you are not. Your body is actually the temple of the Holy Spirit, or it is not. And if not, wherein, let me ask, do you differ from the foolish virgins of Matt. 25:1-12? save in this, that they were, at the moment of waking up, too late to procure the "oil," while you, thank God, are not. Do not, I beseech you, be content with knowing a great deal about this subject. A mind well stored with Scriptural teaching is, as far as it goes, a boon; but if this is all you have, it will no more avail you at the great crisis, when the Lord comes, than knowing where the necessary oil could be obtained availed the foolish virgins. Their knowledge could only intensify their bitter remorse, only deepen the gloom of their outside position.
Oh, beware, my reader, lest in the twinkling of an eye such calamity overtake you, lest "want" come upon you "as an armed man" (Prov. 6:11) and your destitution be laid bare beyond remedy, your destiny fixed beyond hope. What a deplorable coming short would this be!
It is the writer's purpose, in these pages, to answer, by God's help, five questions:
1. WHO ARE INDWELT?
2. WHEN INDWELT?
3. WHEREFORE INDWELT?
4. FOR HOW LONG INDWELT?
5. WHAT IS IT TO BE FILLED?