For this widely felt, though sometimes inarticulate demand, the Divine supply is _the fullness of the Spirit_; and this Fullness is the birthright of _every_ believer, his birthright by virtue of his new birth. Sometimes we hear it said that to be filled with the Spirit is the Christian _privilege_; but _birthright_ is a stronger word. Reader, it is your birthright to be filled with the Spirit, as Peter was filled, as Stephen was filled, as the one hundred and twenty men and women in the upper room were filled (Acts ii. 4, and i. 14, 15), as the men and women in Cornelius' house were filled (Acts x. 44-47). "And ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off" (Acts ii. 38, 39). What have you done with your birthright? Have you claimed it? _Are you living at this moment in the possession and enjoyment of it?_ Or, are you, Esau-like, "despising your birthright"? (Gen. xxv. 34). Or, if not despising, are you neglecting it? Esau's eyes were ultimately opened to his folly in parting with his birthright for "one mess of meat," and he then desired to inherit the blessing, seeking it "diligently with tears;" but alas! his awaking came too late (Heb. xii. 16, 17). May every reader of these lines have the desire graciously awakened (if it has not yet been awakened and satisfied), to inherit their birthright blessing, while place of repentance is to be found. May the prediction be fulfilled in our glad experience: "The house of Jacob shall _possess their possessions_" (Obad. 17). CHAPTER III. _A COMMAND TO BE OBEYED._