Why Is The Average Christian Not Filled with the Holy Spirit

Why Is The Average Christian Not Filled with the Holy Spirit?<br /><br />The average Christian continues to live in disobedience to God and is not filled with the Spirit for two reasons:<br /><br /> A lack of knowledge<br /> Unbelief<br />From the moment of your spiritual birth, you have the power to go on growing toward maturity in Christ. And yet, the average person, not understanding how to live by faith, lives on a spiritual roller coaster, rising and falling from one emotional experience to another.<br /><br />In Romans 7, Paul describes the predicament of the worldly, carnal Christian, “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”<br /><br />In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul describes a worldly, carnal believer as one who acts like a non Christian. Although the worldly believer has received Christ, he also has allowed his Flesh nature to reclaim the throne through sin. God still has possession of this person, and Christ is still in his life, but the individual has fallen into sin in one or more areas of his life.<br /><br />Not yielded to God, the worldly believer is usually a miserable person – even more miserable than the non-Christian. He is in a period of stunted spiritual growth because he is not confessing and repenting of his sins, and Satan has succeeded in influencing and con trolling him through the Flesh.