On the day of Pentecost, Jesus’ followers were filled with the Holy Spirit.¹ Peter the Apostle explained to the people listening that this was:

• the power that Jesus had promised to the disciples²
• the promise of Jesus to believers³
• the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy⁴

Churches started to spring up as people were filled with the Holy Spirit. People were baptised in water and they began to hold meetings.⁵

By being filled with the Holy Spirit:

• we are saved⁶
• God’s love is placed in our hearts⁷
• we become the children of God⁸
• we are shown the truth⁹
• we are freed from sin¹⁰
• we receive power¹¹
• God and Jesus come into our lives¹²
• we can worship God in spirit and truth¹³
• we are comforted¹⁴
• we receive God’s confirmation that we are believers¹⁵
• we receive gifts of the spirit¹⁶
• we receive the fruit of the spirit¹⁷
• we speak in tongues¹⁸

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is essential to becoming a new person. This is the life that God has always intended us to live.

You will know you are filled with the Holy Spirit when you speak in tongues.

Other subjects in this series:

• What must I do to be saved
• Water baptism
• The Holy Spirit
• Speaking in tongues
• Healing
• Bible prophecy
• The return of Jesus Christ

Read the references in your Bible

1. Acts 2:1-4
2. Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8
3. John 7:37-39, Acts 1:4-8, 2:32-33, 37-39
4. Isaiah 28:11-12, Acts 2:16-18
5. Acts 2:41-42
6. Acts 11:15-18, Ephesians 1:13-14, Titus 3:5-6
7. Romans 5:5, Galatians 5:22
8. John 1:12, Romans 8:14-17
9. John 16:13-14, Ephesians 3:2-5, 16-20
10. Romans 8:1-2
11. Luke 24:46-49, Acts 1:18, 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, Ephesians 3:16-21
12. Romans 8:8-9, Ephesians 2:28-22, 1 John 3:24, 4:12-13
13. John 4:23-24
14. John 14:16-18, 26-27
15. 2 Corinthians 1:22, Ephesians 1:13
16. 1 Corinthians 12
17. Galatians 5:22-23
18. Acts 10:45-46