Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment.
The Holy Spirit convicts, but the devil condemns. The difference between conviction and condemning is that conviction given us hope and encourages us to repent, condemnation leaves us with no hope at all. It just points out sin and gives no hope at all. The Holy Spirit does not condemn, but He convicts. Conviction is from the Holy Spirit but condemnation is of the devil.
He convicts of sin because people don't believe in Christ. Remember in John 3 we saw that believing and obedience are like two sides of a coin. The evidence of your faith is your obedience.
Of righteousness because He was ascending to His Father.
He overcame and ascended to heaven, we also can partake of His righteousness and overcome as He did.
Of judgment because the devil has been judged.
The devils doom is sealed. There is no redemption for him, and he knowing that, he is seeking more people to join him in the lake of fire at the end of their lives. He has deceived many into to to believe in Jesus, and He has blinded many believers to their true inheritance in Christ.
Many preachers have been misguided to preach the good of this world to their congregation, prosperity and healing and breakthrough. Everyone believers and unbelievers want that. The devil will any preacher to build a mega church on the condition that that is what they will preach. They must never preach the way of the cross, the message of the cross, the death of Christ, the blood of Christ, the true power of the Holy Spirit which is to make you holy not just give you gifts, God's judgement, heaven and hell... Have you wondered why the church does not hear such topics today, they only hear about material prosperity and healing and breakthrough? Study the gospels to see what Jesus preached, and then compare it with the preachers preach today, you'd see how far astray we gone. We have to test everything the preachers say against God's word. How can you test if you are ignorant of the scriptures... Most sermons don't lead to obedience to God but to try to use God for own selfish gain and interests.
The curse in these generation is that many want their pastors to read the bible for them and with such ignorance of the scriptures it's very easy to deceive them.
Jesus said that He had many things to say that He cannot say to them now. Even today, He has many things to say to His children but cannot because many have not sought to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Many have not obeyed the light they have. Just like a teacher saying to a student in class 1, that she has many things to teach that child but the child must pass their class one test to go to higher levels where she can teach more complicated topics on science and maths.
Are you passing the tests that come to you or do you just fail. There is a timeline to which God wants to reach for you to understand certain things but, if you keep repeating classes through failing, it will take much longer time.
You must learn always to keep your conscience clear and always humble yourself if you want to make progress in your spiritual life. We must value the Holy Spirit who is our teacher and guide.
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@Blessed Mshindi Mambo
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