Holy Spirit 4
- John 16:4-11
- Steve Hart
- Jan 24, 2010
- Series: The Spirit and the Church: John 14-16
One of the key roles the Spirit plays is that of prosecuting attorney. Jesus says when the Spirit comes he will “convict the world,” meaning he’ll bring the world to see their guilt before a Holy God and their need for salvation in Jesus. J.I Packer says, “Jesus said that the Spirit would “convict the world” of the sin of not believing in him, of the fact that he was in the right with God the Father (as his welcome back to heaven proved), and of the reality of judgment both here and hereafter (John 16:8-11). This threefold conviction is still God’s means of making sin repulsive and Christ adorable in the eyes of persons who previously loved sin and cared nothing for the divine Savior.” But how?