Köstenberger provides an Old Testament background for the New Testament teaching on what it means to be filled with the Spirit. The rest of the study provides a detailed study of all the references in the New Testament to a "filling with the Spirit" or a person’s being “full of the Spirit."

This article is the fifth in a series on the work of the Holy Spirit. Here the author distinguishes between occasional and habitual filling with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is the work of the Holy Spirit; however, by filling ourselves with God's word we create a channel to experience the filling of the Spirit. The article also discusses corporate worship in relation to being filled by the Spirit.

What does it mean to be "filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18)? Paul says that those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5). And what are these things of the Spirit?