Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Spirit of God and the spirit of the world


"This God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms. Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone." (1 Corinthians 2: 10 - 15)

There are two ways:  the broad way and the narrow way.  There are two spirits operating in the world:  the Spirit of God and the spirit of theworld.  The gift of discernment of spirits enables us to spot the best way, which is the narrow way that leads to God and life.  The narrow way is the will of God for us.  This will is excellent in all respects.

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