Conviction Brings Fourth Truth!

                                        2 Corinthians 7:10
                  "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation."

         Conviction brings fourth truth. Why?  Because conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man.  It is the opening of the true door of conviction; in which we find the understanding of God.  Jesus said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict of sin, and when the Holy Spirit rouses a man's conscience and brings him into the presence of God, it is not his relationship with men that bothers him, but his relationship with God.
        The marvels of convection of sin, forgiveness, and holiness are so interwoven that it is only the forgiven man who is the holy man, he proves he is forgiven by being the opposite to what he was.  Repentance always brings a man to this point:  I have sinned.  The surest sign that God is at work is when a man says that and means it.  Anything less than this is a remorse for having made blunders, the reflex action of disgust at himself.
       The entrance into the Kingdom is through the pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Spirit, who produces these agonies, begins the formation of the Son of God in the life.  The new life will manifest itself in conscious repentance and unconscious holiness, never the other way around. The very hard rock bottom of Christianity is repentance.  In Biblical terms; a man cannot repent when he chooses; repentance is a gift of God. If we ever cease to know the virtue of repentance , we are in darkness. Let us examine ourselves ans see if we have forgotten how to be sorry.

                                        May God Bless You
                                         And Your Families

                                                       Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                                       The Cross Life Ministry