06/03/2023
WE HAVE RECEIVED THE SPIRIT WHO IS FROM GOD
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God”.
1 Corinthians 2:12
The Spirit of God has taken His abode in us. He lives in us now! And we need to be conscious of that fact.
All of God’s children have received the Spirit of God.
In 1Corinthians 3:16, Paul says, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” We have not received the spirit of the world; but the unsaved have the spirit of the world.
The spirit of the world is the spirit that now works in the children of
disobedience (Eph 2:2).
They do not have to consciously receive the spirit of the world; rather, the spirit is natural to them.
Now we have the Spirit whom the Lord Jesus said He would send from the Father (John 15:26).
We have received this precious Holy Spirit that we may know what God has freely given us. The Amplified Version translates our opening scripture thus:
“Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy] Spirit
Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine
favor and blessing so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God” (1Cor 2:12).
That means the Holy Spirit causes us to know what God has freely given us by submitting ourselves to and embracing the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit; we come to realize, comprehend, and appreciate in our minds the things that God has freely bestowed on us.
Our understanding of what has been freely given to us causes us to walk in the reality of what we have in Christ.
When we know what has been given to us, we will not only experience the life of God, but we will also express the same.
The kind of knowledge the Spirit of God imparts us with will make us acknowledge what we have been freely given and freely received and enjoy them.
Join us tomorrow morning as we gather around God's Word to be blessed by His Spirit.