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Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for John 16:7-11

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"THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT."
Intro: When a person begins to get a spiritual awareness, they become conscious of three things: sin, righteousness, judgment.
I. OF SIN.
A. What is sin?
1. Rebellion against God.
a. Origin of word in English "missing the mark." God wants us to hit the mark.
b. Origin of Greek word "not a witness." God wants you to be a witness of Him.
c. God wants you to be perfect, anything short of that is sin.
B. "Of sin, because they believe not on Me."
1. Jesus died for the sins of the world. "All we like sheep have gone astray."
a. Every foul, vile deed that man has ever committed was charged on Him.
b. He died once and for all.
c. All the sins of the world were judged in the death of Christ.
1. Men will not have to answer to God for their murders, or adulteries, or theiving.
2. Why did you not believe in, rely upon, fully trust in Jesus Christ.
II. OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
A. The act of doing and being right in all things.
1. More than just an act - motives involved.
2. You may be doing right while thinking wrong.
3. "Our righteousness as filthy rags in sight of God."
a. Hard for you to believe that.
4. I ought to be doing right.
B. "Of righteousness, because I go unto my Father."
1. Imagine being able to ascend directly into that awesome, revealing purity of God.
2. How is it that Jesus could come unashamedly into God's presence?
a. "He was the faithful and true witness." "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." "I do always those things that please Him." "The prince of this world came..."
3. Our error while thinking of righteousness on the human level - we use other men as our standard.
4. The big question is do you want to stand before God and plead your own case on the basis of your own goodness? Or to stand in Christ, clothed in His righteousness? "He became sin for us who knew..."
III. OF JUDGMENT BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD IS JUDGED.
A. The resurrection of Christ is God's testimony to the world, that this is the life I will accept. All others are judged.
B. The prince of this world is judged.
1. Satan is the epitome of worldliness.
a. Some think that worldliness is drinking, playing cards, going to the theater.
b. How are you living? As though this is all there is?
2. The cross spelled Satan's defeat, he was judged at the cross.
a. If you are bound by Satan to a drug habit, "The Spirit witnesses to you that you can be free."
b. The Spirit witnesses to me that if I will believe on Jesus Christ the sins that bound me will bind me no more, the fierce fires of passion that burned shall be quenched. What will you do with the witness of the Spirit to you? Will you reject?
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