with the Spirit (Ac 2:4; 4:8, 31; 9:17). By faith the believer reckons on his positional fullness as his heritage in union with Christ. As he believes he is what he is in Christ, his position becomes real in his experience (Ro 6:11). Accordingly, the baptism of the Spirit effects union with Christ and positional fullness. It makes possible the filling, but emphatically it is not the experience of the filling itself. The baptizing work of the Spirit is nonexperiential, whereas the filling with the