Welcome to Deepen with Pastor Jobi Martin. The Church of 1122 is a movement for all people to discover

and deepen a relationship with Jesus Christ. And we're praying this message helps you deepen your

relationship with him. Now let's dive in. Hey church family. Welcome back to Deep and Devo. We are in week

23. Can you believe it it 23 of diving deep into

not only the gospel of john but also are one another's and so this past weekend we started in john 15

we went all the way through 1633 and we talked about this promise of the gift that jesus was going to send to us that we know as the Holy Spirit.

And Jesus calls the Holy Spirit helper. And the point was, the Spirit of God in you is greater

than the circumstances around you. This world has trouble, but praise God. God offers peace

that transcends understanding. And again,

Jesus said that if you follow him, we were going to have trouble, but to take heart because

he had overcome the world, and that it would be better for him to go away because he was

going to sin the Spirit of God to dwell within us. And like my friend, Pastor J.D. Greer says

that the Spirit in you is better

than Jesus beside you. And then one of the roles that Jesus laid out that the Holy Spirit would play

in the life of the believer. Not only would he teach us the word, not only would he lead God and direct us,

not only would he comfort us,

but one of the things that we often don't think about is this, is that the role of the Holy

Spirit is to convict us of sin. That's right. One of the roles of the Spirit of God is to

convict us of sin. Now, one of the things you may be asking, well, why is that?

Well, in Romans chapter 1, we find out that it is God's kindness that leads us to repentance,

that it is the kindness of God to convict us of our sin, and that it's actually the wrath of God to turn us over to our own

desires and allow us to continue on a pathway that does not have him as the final destination.

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