Title: Not As the World Gives

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The Lord wishes to give us the gift of our becoming generous--he wants to give us his own truth and love on a permanent basis.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
John 14:27; 17:13; 10:27-28, 30
Jeremiah 25:5
Ezekiel 11:14-20
Matthew 7:7-12
John 4:9
Acts of the Apostles 8:14-17
1 Corinthians 12:27; 13:11-12; 14:8
2 Timothy 1:6-7
James 1:5
2 Peter 1:1-4
Matthew 19:16-end
Matthew 25:46
Luke 10:25
John 5:39-40
Galatians 6:8-9
1 Timothy 6:19
1 John 3:15; 5:20
Psalms 103:1-5; 68:19

'The spirit of God,' as in Genesis 1:2, signifies the divine mercy of the Lord.

'The spirit of God' denotes good from an interior level, so from the divine. The spirit of God is what proceeds from the divine, so from good itself, because the divine is good itself, and what proceeds from it is truth within which is good. This is what 'the spirit of God' signifies in the Word, because the spirit itself does not proceed, but the truth itself within which is good, the spirit being the instrument which produces it.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 19; Divine Love and Wisdom 100)