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The Holy Spirit of God. He says, you're bad, you are sinful. There's the answer. It's Jesus.

Coming up today, Pastor Greg Laurie explains how the Holy Spirit shows sinners where they can

find forgiveness. Go to Jesus and your sins will be forgiven. Go to Jesus and that righteousness

will be placed in your account. Go to Jesus and your questions will be answered. He shows you

this in that he brings you to the Savior. That's it, the work of the Holy Spirit.

In our natural bodies, there are many things inside that keep us alive, although we've never seen

them. Antibodies, clotting agents, intestinal flora, white blood cells. Now, spiritually speaking,

there are invisible forces at work that want to help us and save us, although other forces

want to destroy us. Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out the work of God's

Spirit, acquaint us with our sin and acquaint us with our Savior. It's important we know how to respond.

When I turn on the television these days, man, there's just so much bad stuff, isn't there?

Just tragedy layered on tragedy. I see so much sin on display. You see selfishness. You see

violence. You see murder. You hear of all these horrible things happening. And I'm just talking

about the cartoons and Saturday morning. No, seriously though, it's just, it's sort of like sin is

on display every day, every night for us all to see. So what is the worst sin? A person could

possibly commit, is it stealing? Is it murder? Is it adultery? Those are bad sins for sure.

But let me re-ask the question, what sin offends God more than any other? I think you might be

surprised by my answer. Here in John chapter 16, we're looking together at the work of the Holy

Spirit and the life of the non-believer. In our last message, we focus primarily on the work of

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