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 Chicago THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION 250 LA SALLE AVENUE _Copyright 1896 by Fleming H. Revell Company._ PREFACE.