Got Spirit?

 If you asked me how many times I've seen a commercial or an advertisement that promotes some product or service, I'd say it's way beyond numbering.  Our culture is filled with marketing advertisements.  Each of them has a particular angle they are promoting to have you buy their stuff.  

All the major marketing promotions have an emotional appeal to get you to like what they've got.  And often times marketing turns into emotional manipulation.  Even at sporting events we basically are hearing a similar message, you need to get into the spirit of the game, you need to buy into the wave of what's positive and popular.  We need to catch on to the gig.  

But, do we have the spirit of the world or the Spirit of Christ?  This is a good question I believe because it helps us to know Him, to understand His heart as well as His mind.  What is the Spirit of Christ?  In the sermon on the mount, Jesus proclaimed in Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs, is the kingdom of heaven."  Here Jesus described that we need a humble spirit that accepts the truths of God and receives Him to receive eternal life.  We cannot receive the Spirit of Christ with a proud spirit.  

We also see this as Christ taught his disciples in John 3:5, "Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."  We must be born of the Spirit of God to enter the kingdom of God.  This is not the spirit of the world but the Holy Spirit, and He is supernatural, and only He can regenerate our souls and transform our lives.  

Our faith will be inspired and strengthened when we humbly receive the Word of God and the Spirit of Truth.  The Holy Spirit seeks to lead us into all truth.  Do we have this Spirit?  

FAITH TODAY:  John 16:13, "When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come."