Be Filled with the Holy Spirit | Darren Rouanzoin

In Ephesus, the wealthiest and most pagan city of Paul's world, a move of God began with about twelve people being filled with the Holy Spirit. Before the lecture hall, the miracles, or the riot, the Spirit came first. This week we look at the fourth condition for revival in Acts 19: a church full of the presence of God. We trace the promise of the Spirit from Genesis through the prophets to Jesus, who said he would send another advocate like himself, and we talk about what "baptized in the Holy Spirit" actually means: soaked, overwhelmed, changed all the way through.

We also get honest about why so many of us live without that power. We've tried to will ourselves into patience and self-control, we've been discipled by secularism and consumer Christianity more than by scripture, and we're too busy and too hurried to wait on God. Paul's command to the Ephesians still stands: keep on being filled with the Spirit. It starts with humility, and with an old prayer the church has prayed for two thousand years. Come, Holy Spirit.

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