Are You Holy Spirit Filled?

The Holy Nope

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So I asked on Facebook the other day, what action is most immediately connected to the filling of the Holy Spirit in Luke and Acts?

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We got a lot of different answers, and some were correct. And no, it is not speaking in tongues specifically, though tongues is included under the answer.

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Rather, the action most immediately connected to the filling of the Holy Spirit is the proclamation of the

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Word of God. We see this in the very first chapter of Luke's Gospel, in verse 15 and 16,

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John the Baptist will be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb, and from there, the text immediately describes the nature of his preaching ministry.

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Again in Luke chapter 1, as the angel speaks to Mary, he says the Holy Spirit will come upon Mary, at which the

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Word is made flesh. The eternal Word is made flesh, becomes incarnate by whom

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God has spoken to us in these last days. Again in Luke chapter 1, when Mary visits

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Elizabeth, who is pregnant with John the Baptist, Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit, and, verse 42, she cried out with a loud voice.

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Again in Luke chapter 1, after John is born, in verse 67, his father, Zacharias, is filled with the

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Holy Spirit, and he prophesied. In Luke chapter 2, the Holy Spirit is upon Simeon, who prophesies concerning the child

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Jesus. In Luke chapter 3, verse 22, the Spirit descends upon Jesus at his baptism, and the

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Word of God is proclaimed, this time, the voice of the Father testifying to the identity of his

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Son. In Luke 4, Jesus returns from his wilderness temptation in the power of the

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Spirit, beginning his public ministry by proclaiming the Word of God. This is confirmed further in Luke 4, when he reads from the

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Isaiah Scroll, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel.

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In Luke 12, Jesus tells his disciples that when they are brought before the authorities, the Holy Spirit will teach them what to speak.

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In Acts 1, verse 2, Jesus speaks to his apostles by the Holy Spirit. In Acts chapter 1, verse 8, the power of the

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Holy Spirit is directly linked to being a witness for Christ, which necessarily involves the bold proclamation of his

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Word. In Acts 1 .16, in the upper room, Peter says, Brethren, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the

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Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David. In Acts 2 .4, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the

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Spirit gave them utterance. And in those foreign languages, they were proclaiming the mighty deeds of God.

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In Acts 2 .17, Peter quotes Joel, another connection between the Spirit and prophecy. In Acts 4, when

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Peter and John are arrested, the rulers ask, By what power or in what name have you healed the lame man?

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And verse 8, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, He speaks. Acts 4 .31, one of my favorites,

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And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the

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Word of God with boldness. We see Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit as he preaches in Acts 7.

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I'll leave it to you to search out the rest, but I think this is a fascinating observation that suggests that where the

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Holy Spirit is present, the Word of God will be proclaimed. And if a church claims to be

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Spirit -filled, but does not preach the Word, or even decentralizes the proclamation of the