Introduction—Andrew Murray 3

Author's Preface 9

Introduction to first Australian edition 13

CHAPTER I.

The Starting Point 17

CHAPTER II.

Every Believer's Birthright 19

CHAPTER III.

A Command to be Obeyed 21

CHAPTER IV.

Something different from the new Birth—Proved from the Case of
(1) The Apostles—(2) The Samaritans—(3) Saul of Tarsus—(4)
The Ephesians—Unclaimed Deposits 23

CHAPTER V.

Everybody's Need 29

CHAPTER VI.

Preventive Against Backsliding 31

CHAPTER VII.

How long Between the New Birth and the Filling? 34

CHAPTER VIII.

Other New Testament Names for "Being Filled with the Spirit"—(1)
Baptized with the Holy Ghost—"Baptized into One Body,"
What it means—(2) Rivers of Living Waters—(3) The Promise
of the Father—(4) Pouring Forth—(5) The Gift—(6)
Receiving—(7) Falling—(8) Coming—(9) Sealed 36

CHAPTER IX.

How Obtained?—(1) Cleanse—(2) Consecrate—(3) Claim 47

CHAPTER X.

Wrong Motives 48

CHAPTER XI.

Cleansing—A "New Heart" not necessarily a "Clean Heart"—What is a Clean Heart?—Not Sinlessness—Blameless, not Faultless—"I was alone in the Twilight"—Cleansing a Crisis, not a Process 49

CHAPTER XII.

Consecration: What is it?—(1) Sanctification—(2) Surrender—(3)
Transference of Ownership—(4) Enthroning Christ 72

CHAPTER XIII.

Claiming—(1) Prayer—(2) Laying on of Hands—Claiming and
Asking—Through Faith the Blessing Made Ours—Objections
Against This 87

CHAPTER XIV.

How Does it Come?—Aorist Tense: "Were Filled," Refilled, A
Crisis—Imperfect Tense: "Were being Filled," A
Process—Present Tense: "Full," the Normal Condition—Deacons
"Full of the Holy Ghost"—Illustration of Water
Trough—Illustration of Service Pipe 91

CHAPTER XV.

Its Effects—(1) Courage—(2) Fruit of the Spirit—(3) Reach the
Masses—(4) Persecution 104

CHAPTER XVI. May One Know that he is Filled?—(1) From the Testimony of the Word—(2) The Witness of the Spirit—(3) Signs Following 117

CHAPTER XVII.

May One Say that He is Filled?—Testifying to
Forgiveness—Testifying to Full Salvation 120

CHAPTER XVIII.

May One Lose the Blessing?—By Disobedience—By Neglect of the
Word—It will be Found Where it was Lost 122

THE

SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE

BY THE LATE

REV. JOHN MACNEIL, B. A.

INTRODUCTION BY THE

REV. ANDREW MURRAY

Be filled with the Spirit—Eph. v. 18

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