{"id":109328,"date":"2021-01-18T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=109328"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:13:45","slug":"18-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/18\/18-u\/","title":{"rendered":"18.u. “Whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 16:7 \u00a0 <\/span>Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>John 7:39<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>John 14:16-17<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,\u00a0\u00a0even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>John 14:26<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>John 15:26<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBut when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment<\/b>:\u00a0Sin<\/b>\u00a0is the truth about man,\u00a0righteousness<\/b>\u00a0is the truth about God,\u00a0judgment<\/b>\u00a0is the inevitable combination of these two truths. (Guzik)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEach man\u2019s conscience has some glimmering of light on each of these;\u00a0some<\/i>\u00a0consciousness of guilt,\u00a0some<\/i>\u00a0sense of right,\u00a0some<\/i>\u00a0power of judgment of what is transitory and worthless; but all these are unreal and unpractical, till the convicting work of the Spirit has wrought in him.\u201d (Alford)<\/p>\n

The ancient Greek work translated\u00a0convict<\/b>\u00a0has a broader range of meaning than simply our word\u00a0convict<\/b>, especially as it is understood in a legal sense. It also carries the ideas to\u00a0expose<\/i>, to\u00a0refute<\/i>, and to\u00a0convince<\/i>\u00a0(Bruce). This is the work of the Holy Spirit in the world and in individual hearts; to convince and convict of these truths. It is a serious thing to resist and reject this work of the Holy Spirit, which is especially prominent and powerful in seasons of great spiritual advance.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThe Spirit does not merely accuse men of sin, he brings to them an inescapable sense of guilt so that they realize their shame and helplessness before God.\u201d (Tenney)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe Spirit is the \u2018advocate\u2019 or helper of those who believe in Jesus, their counsel for the defence. But in relation to unbelievers, to the godless world, he acts as counsel for the prosecution.\u201d (Bruce) It\u2019s important to have the Spirit of God to defend rather than to convict.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the great awakening of 1860-61 in Great Britain, a high-ranking army officer described the conviction of sin in his Scottish town: \u201cThose of you who are ease have little conception of how terrifying a sight it is when the Holy Spirit is pleased to open a man\u2019s eyes to see the real state of heart. Men who were thought to be, and who thought themselves to be good, religious people\u2026 have been led to search into the foundation upon which they were resting, and have found all rotten, that they were self-satisfied, resting on their own goodness, and not upon Christ. Many turned from open sin to lives of holiness, some weeping for joy for sins forgiven.\u201d (J. Edwin Orr,\u00a0The Second Evangelical Awakening in Britain<\/i>)<\/p>\n

It is unbelief, the rejection of Jesus, which ultimately proves one to be guilty. The Holy Spirit will tell the world of the importance of trusting in, relying on, and clinging to Jesus to avoid this sin. \u201cThe essence of sin is unbelief, which is not simply a casual skepticism nor a difference of opinion; rather, it is a total rejection of God\u2019s messenger and message.\u201d (Tenney) It is a vague kind of skepticism which is one of the most common spiritual diseases in man.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 16:7 \u00a0 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness … Continue reading “18.u. “Whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3294,410,199,14771,14769,448,2223,192,3149,536,14770,165,4245,362,121,3337,120,315,2881,147,322],"class_list":["post-109328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-advantage","tag-bear-witness","tag-believe","tag-bring-to-rememberance","tag-dwells-with-you","tag-father","tag-forever","tag-given","tag-glorified","tag-helper","tag-in-you","tag-jesus","tag-judgment","tag-receive","tag-righteousness","tag-send","tag-sin","tag-spirit","tag-teach-you","tag-truth","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109439,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109328\/revisions\/109439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}