Indeed the two little words in and on generally relate to two distinct aspects of what the Holy Spirit does for God's people. He is in all of us all the time. He comes on us for specific purposes at certain times. When he comes on us he is sometimes said to fill us. And though it may seem confusing to us that he could come on or upon someone he already lives inside, the confusion has to do with our inability to think in anything but spacial terms. Prepositions are helpful, and the Scripture uses them, but we must try to use the terms just as the Scripture does, without letting spatial concepts confuse us too much.
John White, When The Spirit Comes With Power, p. 230
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