{"id":3775,"date":"2009-09-20T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2009-09-20T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:27:21","slug":"john-168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/09\/20\/john-168\/","title":{"rendered":"John 16:8"},"content":{"rendered":"

And when He is come, He will convict the world of sin….<\/p>\n

— John 16:8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very few of us know anything about conviction of sin; we know the
\nexperience of being disturbed because of having done wrong things;
\nbut conviction of sin by the Holy Ghost blots out every relationship
\non earth and leaves one relationship only – “Against Thee, Thee only,
\nhave I sinned!” When a man is convicted of sin in this way, he knows
\nwith every power of his conscience that God dare not forgive him; if
\nGod did forgive him, the man would have a stronger sense of justice
\nthan God. God does forgive, but it cost the rending of His heart in
\nthe Death of Christ to enable Him to do so. The great miracle of the
\ngrace of God is that He forgives sin, and it is the death of Jesus
\nChrist alone that enables the Divine nature to for give and to remain
\ntrue to itself in doing so. It is shallow nonsense to say that God
\nforgives us because He is love. When we have been convicted of sin we
\nwill never say this again. The love of God means Calvary, and nothing
\nless; the love of God is spelt on the Cross and nowhere else. The
\nonly ground on which God can forgive me is through the Cross of my
\nLord. There, His conscience is satisfied.<\/p>\n

Forgiveness means not merely that I am saved from hell and made right
\nfor heaven (no man would accept forgiveness on such a level);
\nforgiveness means that I am forgiven into a recreated relationship,
\ninto identification with God in Christ. The miracle of Redemption is
\nthat God turns me, the unholy one, into the standard of Himself, the
\nHoly One, by putting into me a new disposition, the disposition of
\nJesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And when He is come, He will convict the world of sin…. — John 16:8 Very few of us know anything about conviction of sin; we know the experience of being disturbed because of having done wrong things; but conviction of sin by the Holy Ghost blots out every relationship on earth and leaves one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}