So what is the difference?
Being filled with the Spirit means a follower of Jesus is empowered to live the life God intended for them by submitting to the presence, power, and purpose of the Holy Spirit in their lives, and happens when one is Baptized by Water as John the Baptist did in the Bible. When one is filled with the Holy Spirit one will experience the fruits of the Holy Spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These are manifestations of the Holy Spirit that are mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23. The tradition of the Church lists twelve of them: charity, generosity, modesty, and chastity.
Being Baptized With the Holy Spirit means The baptism of the Holy Spirit occurs when the Spirit of God comes upon a believer. The Holy Spirit fills the believer’s mind with a genuine understanding of truth, takes possession of the believer’s abilities, and imparts gifts that qualify the believer for service in the body of Christ and experience the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit which are Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord, Gift of Tounges and Interpretation of Tounges.
According to Church tradition, the Holy Spirit rests on the Messiah, Emmanuel, and that he possesses these gifts. As Jesus was blessed with these gifts by his Father, every believer should desire to be blessed with the same gifts by the Holy Spirit.
Mathew 3:11
“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
