CD 1536 Checking your Holy Spirit Level
SUBMISSION IS THE POSITION FOR PROMOTION!

Background:
*Act_6:3  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
*Act_6:8  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
*Act_7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
*Act_11:24  For he (Barnabas) was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
*

In this life there's always two ways to do things. One is right and the other isn't, it's just that plain and simple. I'm going to ask you a question in a moment but before I do let me tell you how I came to the title of this message. My dad and Grandpa took two different engines and made one, to go in a log loader truck. In case you don't know what, a log loader truck is, it's simply an old truck that you put a log loader on back in the day. All those things have changed now. But when they put these two engines together in poor times, they ended up with two dipsticks to check the oil with in one engine. If you checked it by one, it showed full but if you checked it by the other one it showed 2 quarts low. See when we use man standard it comes up low compared to God's standard. In this message I'm going to ask you this question what is the last thing that people look at in being full of the Holy Spirit? Now let's go to our text and we'll answer that question:

*Ephesians 5:15-21 KJVS
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, [16] Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. [17] Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. [18] And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT; [19] Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [20] Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; [21] SUBMITTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF GOD.

Notice in verse 18 we're talking about being filled with the Holy Spirit. We're all familiar with verses 19 and 20 as a gauge of how full we are of the Holy Spirit. But we can't leave off verse 21 because the last is just as important if not more than the previous!
Your level, my level of submission truly reveals how much of the Holy Spirit we have and better said how much of us the Holy Spirit has. It's the hardest thing for the natural man to do and that is to submit that natural will to someone else!  This is so important that the apostle Paul by the unction of the Holy Spirit keeps the same thought through the first nine verses of chapter 6. It's all about submission and that submission reveals the level of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

Look at our Lord Jesus:

*Philippians 2:5-16 KJVS