Fullness of the Spirit!
It was 1903!
Two young men stood perched on a sand dune overlooking the Atlantic.
The place Kitty Hawk, NC on the outer banks.
The boys we remember as Wilbur and Orville Wright.
They were launching a 40 foot long frame that weighed barely 750 pounds.
In a brief 12 second flight of less than a 120 feet the Wright Brothers became the fathers of modern aviation.
Imagine a gleaming metal object sat on our parking lot.
This metallic tube is 185.7726 feet long,
65.2833 feet high,
wings spreading 194.544 feet wide,
and weighing 317520 kg.
That object is called today a Boeing 747-400.
In 1903 there would have been no wildest imagination that such an object weighing (fully loaded) 317520 kg could ever fly.
Strapped to the earth by sheer weight and the law of gravity-
– it would be impossible to ever think it could soar through thin air.
But hundreds of times each day all over the world objects just like it do!
Do you ever feel like you are one of the Wright Brothers sitting at Kitty Hawk with an 317520 kg hunk of metal on the sand trying to get it in the air?
Trying to walk in the Spirit-
– but glued to the ground?
The way to live an unbelievable, incredible life is found in God’s Word.
In fact-
-the secret that sums up Peter’s life, Paul’s life and John’s life.
This same secret summarizes how the galaxy of 1st through 21st century saints have stood alone triumphantly for Christ.
The secret they knew and followed was:
Fullness of the Spirit!
Walking in the Spirit is-
– living in the conscious presence of the Lord Jesus Christ,
– letting His mind, through the Word, dominate everything that is thought and done.
Being filled with the Spirit is-
– the same as walking like Jesus did on earth!