. 28.

"No small stir concerning the way." Acts xix. 23.

"A plot was laid against him by the Jews." Acts xx. 3.

"So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle,
and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles." Acts xxi. 11.

"And laid hands on him." (Paul was never free after this.) Acts xxi. 27.

"As they were seeking to kill him." Acts xxi. 31.

"Beating Paul ... bound with two chains ... into the castle." Acts xxi.
32, 33, 34.

"It is not fit that he should live." Acts, xxii. 22.

"Bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor
drink till they had killed Paul." Acts xxiii. 12.

"They delivered Paul ... to a centurion." Acts xxvii. 1.

"From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear branded on my body
the marks of Jesus." Gal. vi. 17.

All this makes lively reading in this peaceful, easy-going day of ours;
and yet the world has not changed in its attitude or feeling towards God
and the things of God. But a most palpable change has taken place
somewhere. The change, alas! is in us, in the people of God; a change that
is not for the better. We have lost that which brought these men into
direct collision with the world, and with its ways, even the Fullness of
the Spirit. Only let a man in our day seek and obtain the blessing that
made these men mighty for God, and he will soon find that the world has
not changed, and that the "Pharisees" have not changed either; the
Fullness of the Holy Ghost makes a man the uncompromising friend of God,
and that certainly involves the enmity of the world. "Therefore the world
hateth you" (John xv. 19). It behooves those who are seeking the "Fullness
of the Spirit" to remember these facts, and to count the cost, for the
persecution may come from the most unlikely, unlooked-for quarters. To be
forewarned is to be forearmed. "In the world ye have tribulation: but be
of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John xvi. 33).

CHAPTER XVI.

_MAY ONE KNOW THAT HE IS FILLED?_

The question is often asked--How am I to know when I am filled with the
Holy Ghost?

_1. You may know it from the testimony of the written Word._

"All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, _believe that ye have
received_ them, and ye shall have them" (Mark xi. 24). From this you know,
that if you have, up to your light, fulfilled the conditions necessary to
the filling of the Holy Ghost, on pra