Advice For Those Under Spiritual Conviction | Clip from Salvation in Full Color: Conversion

Advice for Someone Under Deep Conviction of Sin

Well, let's look at a couple more questions. What advice would you give someone who recently has come under a deep sense of? Conviction of their sin. Blair gives us three things. Well, I'll hit you with the first.

Be thankful for conviction. He says. And do nothing that would stifle it. Do nothing that would kind of you know, smother it reduce the pain.

And.

He warns that the love of ease is really dangerous at this time in your life. Do not quiet the painful convicting voice of God. Let that Discomfort drive you to the cross. To the doctor not cause you to say look if religion is painful like this.

You know, I came here and I wasn't very good and we often get this statement at the church I came here to become a better person. But after after a couple of months, I'm worse than I ever was. Well, it's because God is showing them the truth and then you have a choice run toward the God that is saying some unpleasant things about you and that's pretty frightening.

Or run away from that God and go back to kind of putting a band-aid of you know, Indifference or religion of some sort of morality, you know and say well, I'm fine. I don't need that.

Yeah, you can think of Jesus's words about Are they Jesus words or John's word John 3. You can think about the words in John 3 about Light coming into the world and men loving the darkness rather than the light.

I mean to embrace Christ is to run to the light where you're exposed and all the sinfulness is is right there so you we can understand the Natural desire to kind of run backwards and hide in the shadows even though it's the wrong direction.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean it's much like us with doctors, you know, like I I got a terrible diagnosis. The prognosis doesn't look very good. I don't really want to go through that even though I know that might be my only hope.

Staying in the Bible Under Conviction

Another thing he says is stay in the Bible. Because that is where you will get the clearest Understanding of the of your need of God's provision in Christ and of the nature of the new birth. You know.

So don't when you're when you're under conviction don't avoid your Bible because then you're left kind of to this Fuzzy imagination like well, I feel like I got it or I feel like there's no hope for me you know and the Bible is not guiding you at that point.

Crying Out for Mercy and Waking Up to the Danger of Sin

A Third thing he mentions keep crying out at the foot of God's Merciful throne until he saves you, you know, give him no rest. Final question today Chuck. What advice would you give to someone who has never been bothered about their sin?

Yeah, Blair spends a fair amount of page real estate on Answering that and a big part of his answer to that is how you obviously are not aware of the danger you're in. How could you be at ease if you understood the danger that you're facing?

So.

You know don't stick your head in the sand but look and see what God has said about you and about eternity and about The hostility that exists between you and him and the cure that's been provided.

Trusting God, Surrendering Everything, and Seeing Christ

Yeah, I mean ultimately it comes down to do I trust him because who would go to God when when you're when your life feels fairly comfortable and Everything's going. Well, do you do you want to go to God and for him to just turn it all upside down?

I mean that that's pretty terrifying. If you take him seriously I mean he will he will demand that you lay every single thing on the table and there will be no Locked doors in your life that you can say God I'm gonna give you 85 but this is mine.

You know, if you say that if you try to negotiate with God all conversation ends, it's just you talking, you know. There's no reality. God's not there listening. God's not responding and you just get stuck with religion, which is more miserable.

But.

To trust God enough to say to him. This seems to me to be the most frightening thing and it seems counterintuitive, but I am coming to you. Because I believe that what you say is true. Please open my eyes, you know.

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