SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/13/2019
9:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “The
Meaning of Being Filled”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:18b
Message of the
verse: “But be filled with the
Spirit.”
“The continuous aspect of being filled (‘be being kept
filled’) involves day-by-day, moment-by-moment submission to the Spirit’s
control. The passive aspect indicates
that it is not something we do but we allow to be done in us. The filling is entirely the work of the
Spirit Himself, but He works only through our willing submission. The present aspect of the command indicates
that we cannot rely on a past filling nor live in expectation of future
filling. We can rejoice in past fillings
and hope for future fillings, but we live only in present filling.”
This can be pictured in marriage, as marriage couples
cannot rely on the love they had at the beginning of their relationship, nor
the hope of what they will have in the future, but the love they have for each
other on day-by-day living with each other.
John MacArthur writes Pieroo
connotes more than filling something up, as when someone pours water in a glass
up the rim. The term was used in three
additional senses that have great significance for Paul’s use of it here. First, it was often used of the wind filling
a sail and thereby carrying the ship along.
To be filled with the Spirit is to be moved along in our Christian life
by God Himself, by the same dynamic by which the writers of Scripture were ‘moved
by the Holy Spirit’ (2 Pet. 1:21).”
I am about to quote all fourteen verses found in the
fourth chapter of Zechariah, and before I do them I want to say that it seems
to me that the Spirit of God has made something clear to me about what is found
in this chapter about being continually filled with the Holy Spirit. I wrote about this chapter when I went
through my study on Zechariah, and then also when I was teaching and studying
the book of Revelation when we were looking at the two witnesses from the
eleventh chapter. As we look at this
quotation from Zechariah we see two olive trees connected to the
lampstand. Now the lampstand had to be
filled by the priests two times a day in order for it to continue to burn, but
as we see the olive trees connected to the lampstand and the oil continually
coming out of it then that means that the lampstand will continually be filled
with the olive oil and never need anyone to fill it again. The same, I believe is true with the Holy
Spirit, as I look at the passage from Zechariah, as He will keep us continually
filled to do the works that God has prepared for us in eternity past (see Eph.
2:10).
“1 Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and
roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep. 2 He said to me, "What
do you see?" And I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold
with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts
belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it; 3 also two olive
trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left
side." 4 Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying,
"What are these, my lord?" 5 So the angel who was speaking with me answered
and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said,
"No, my lord." 6 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the
LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ’Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says
the LORD of hosts. 7 ’What are you, O great mountain? Before
Zerubbabel you will become a
plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace
to it!"’" 8 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the
foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will
know that the
LORD of hosts has sent me to you. 10 “For
who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when
they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel-these are the eyes of
the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth."
11 Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right
of the lampstand and on its left?" 12 And I answered the second time and
said to him, "What are the two olive branches which are beside the two
golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?" 13
So he answered me, saying, "Do you
not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." 14 Then he
said, "These are the two anointed ones who are standing by the Lord of the
whole earth.’”
We have another unknown author giving a
quotation for us today: “No one ever
falls into sin as the result of being too watchful.”
7/13/2019 10:20 AM
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