# 58 Not By Measure, The Fullness of the Spirit

Joh 3:34 "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 "The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

God the Father has sent His Son and the Son speaks the words of the Father. No words were held back! The fullness of the Holy Spirit was in the Son and all things were placed in the Son’s hands.

This “fullness of the Holy Spirit” is poured into those who receive the Son. The Holy Spirit comes with the package and God holds nothing back. Joh 1:16 reminds us: “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.”

In verse 35 we see that that Father has given all things into the hands of His beloved Son Jesus, a truth reiterated by Jesus in  Mt 11:27 "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”

And in  Joh 5:20,21, “For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 "For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

The unmeasured fullness of the Holy Spirit poured out on His church through Jesus. God the Father holding nothing back from His children, yet, why are we so weak spiritually? The problem is not with God, it is with us and our sinful flesh! We are so easily distracted from all that really matters!

God commands us to be filled with the Holy Spirit as we read in  Eph 5:18, “And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit”

The problem isn’t wine, it’s dissipation! Wine is just an example of being dissipated. The word dissipation means squandering. Wine squanders your senses, but that’s not all that squanders in our lives. We fill our lives with things that really don’t matter and we put the Holy Spirit on the back burner if in the kitchen at all! Distracted by the allures and cares of this world we miss out on all that God has for us!

God doesn’t measure out His Holy Spirit, we have His fullness dwelling in us through faith, let us seek to eliminate those things in our lives which squander away our time and our affection, and rather tap into the fullness of the Spirit that dwells in us!