The Spirit with Our Spirit.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 

Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 

The Spirit bears witness WITH our spirit.

We have a spirit that isn't the Holy Spirit in us. The spirit given to us by God enabling us to live and also to communicate with Him. At the same time, if we do not choose to communicate with God, our spirit can communicate with evil spirits as well.

We've talked about this before- the fact that evil spirits are real, not fictional things created by writers to entertain people. That ouija board, those tarot cards, the medium, or psychic if you prefer, are all channels for the evil spirits to work. Now if you happen to visit fortune tellers and such, and dabble with contacting the dead and knowing the future and you consider yourself a God-fearing, Jesus loving person, then you are deceived. No one likes to hear that they've been deceived, in fact most people will reject it outright. They'll tell you they are very good people, very loving of others and God. They'll talk  about their walk with God and their good deeds they do for the needy, the poor, the downtrodden. They will mention their volunteer work and they will talk about the many friends they have that would vouch for them as being the best of the best, the kindest, the most generous people. And you know what? They really could be a lot of what they say, but that does not mean they are not deceived. Deception by nature is something people do NOT want to admit to unless they are forced to face being deceived.  NO ONE likes being deceived. When you discover that someone has deceived you how do you feel? Betrayed, angry, stupid, and many other negative emotions.

We detest being deceived and rightly so. Why would we admit to being deceived against something that calls for faith to believe? If we don't have to admit to being deceived and no one can prove beyond using faith that we are deceived, then it's likely we will not admit to it. How many people hold fast to their beliefs shutting out anything contradictory to them even when people can take the word of God and reveal Biblical facts? I pray I'm not one of those people!

People think witches, seers, evil spirits and the like are fictional. We had witch trials, there was a time when people believed in witches and then persecuted them- the Bible even says this--

Exo_22:18  Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

In fact there were a lot of laws- social laws that were created to be followed at a time when following any laws, knowing God's ways were all new to people. These laws continued on but when our Savior came and revealed the LOVE of the MORAL LAWS and FORGIVENESS, things did change.

No longer putting people to death, but rather promoting forgiveness. The death people would find would be of their own accord. If the witches, and all who were called out as being Satan's by their beliefs and actions, their non-repenting, ungodly nature do not choose Jesus Christ as their Savior they will face the second death from which there is no resurrection, there is no existence. The witches are still NOT suffered to live, but the change is in when they will not live and that is in eternity.

These witches and the like alive today are consorting with evil spirits, their spirit is aligned with evil spirits- evil spirits exist. 

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 

Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified togethe

The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit- WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

More on this tomorrow, by the GRACE and WILL of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!!!!! Now and forever!