In the body of Christ today we have much confusions. One of these confusions is the idea of conviction by the Spirit of God. I have heard many people say that the are convicted of God, and that God is revealing their sin. I myself once believed this to be true, but since that time the Holy Spirit has revealed to me the truth behind this confusion.

The confusion comes when we assume that the Holy Spirit is manifest to condemn you about your sins. In fact the opposite is true the Holy Spirit comes to reveal your righteousness in Christ. It is because of the condition of the heart of man, that man takes this revealing of righteousness as condemnation.

The Bible tells us that the heart of man is desperately wicked. The word wicked means twisted. The heart of man is full of half-truths. This condition of man’s heart’s comes from the fall of man where mankind lost its ability to receive the absolute judgment of God. Man now receives because of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, relative judgment. Man decides things between what is good and what is evil. This judgment method is far inferior to the truth judgment of God. The truth Judgment of God is His Word. The Word is the LOGOS; the original intention of God that was spoken in the very beginning.

The truth judgment of God is completely whole; it is not judge between two things. The nature of God is that his judgment is the reality.

Let’s see if I can illustrate this for you. If you were sitting in the room with me right now and I ask you are you hot or cold. You would give me a judgment about the room’s temperature. You may say anything from, “I’m very hot”, “I’m very cold”, “I’m warm”,” I’m burning up”. I on the other hand may judge the room entirely different. These forms of judgment are called relative judgment, this is judgment based on the experience of the one who is judging. This judgment example is called relative judgment .God does not judge things this way. Because of who God is, what He says is the reality and surety. Whatever God says is the standard and the design. All other judgment is relative to the one who experiences it.

So with this in mind let us get back to conviction. Man is trapped by relative judgment, he wants to judge things based on what is good and what is evil. He wants to judge between two equal and opposing forces. The problem is that no matter how hard he tries his independent judgment of things will not be 100% accurate. Thus starts the process of decay.

In Mark 11 we find Jesus telling us that if we say unto this mountain, be cast into the sea, and shall not DOUBT in our heart, we shall have what we say. That is an amazing statement considering that Jesus cannot lie. Jesus further states in other places that nothing is impossible to him who believes.

Now in Mark 11:22-24 the word doubt is the Greek word (dia-krino) it means the channel of judgment or condemnation, to form judgment between to symmetrical pieces or a channel. This is also the root word where we get the English word decision (to divide the two and chose one) the two pieces are Good and Evil. Jesus said that if we did not form a judgment between two opposing forces that we could cast a mountain into the sea.

There is a misconception in the body of Christ about how Jesus judged. Many believe that he had the same mind as us.(ignoring the mind of Christ) And that he judged things by the knowledge of good and evil. But let’s remember he was born without sin. The sin that he was born without was the sin of Adam. The sin of Adam was eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to get the way of life. When man ate from this tree he was transformed from the pure judgment of God to his relative judgment between two opposing forces. When man partakes of this fruit and eats it he begins to get his life from it. This is how man enters into the realm of sin.

To sin means to miss a pre-described Mark or target. God had targeted man with his(God’s) very own judgment. And now man has went away from this judgment unto his own. This is the very reason for man’s death and decay. Man has no ability on his own to judge truth. Man must only receive the Intention of God and make them his judgment, and reject this false tree.

Jesus said when praying to his father, “Father Thy Word is truth”. When Jesus was saying is that what the Father decrees is the reality. Jesus opens a window to us when he says: I can do nothing of myself, unless I first see my Father doing. Jesus was revealing to us that he did not have his own independent judgment, but that he received all truth from his father. Jesus walked the earth not relying upon his experiences but upon what his Father had judged. In fact there is evidence that he spent more time with his father in prayer than with other men.

Now you might say, “What does this have to do with conviction?” It has everything to do with conviction. When the Holy Spirit comes he convicts you of your righteousness in Jesus Christ. You on the other hand know all the wrong that you have done, and are condemned in your heart. So you respond based on what’s in your heart not based on what the Holy Spirit is revealed. He tells you that you are righteous in Christ and you say you’re sinner. Now the real problem with this is, a person begins to think that God is condemning them, when in fact they are condemning themselves by using relative judgment.

God placed all sin past, present, and future, on the body of Jesus Christ, and he destroyed that body. And put to death all the sin of mankind. The vast majority of mankind does not understand this fact. They truly do not believe in the power of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In Ephesians we are told that God is not holding our trespasses and our sins against us yet we still believe that he convicts us of our sin. This has been one of the greatest lies of the enemy; the Holy Spirit’s job is to convict you of Jesus Christ’s righteousness, and of God’s acceptance of his payment for sin. Mankind’s first response to this work of the Holy Spirit, is to judge it based on his own experience. Thus from the beginning man begins to hear the voice of condemnation over the voice of victory in the Holy Spirit.(this could be the very root of the lie from the very beginning) Man then begins the war of condemnation and righteousness. This war rages on until the light shines in darkness, and overcomes the condemnation.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. We now are to walk according to the spirit voice calling us righteous in spite of the contradiction of our daily lives. We are to trust in Jesus Christ’s works and his alone. The Bible reveals to us that as a man thinks in his heart so is he and his life. If we are constantly receiving condemnation that our hearts never truly change, but if today we will look to the work of Jesus Christ as a finished work we can begin the journey into the fullness of God’s love.

By: Apostle George L Maitland
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