Conviction and The Church

Conviction is a very beautiful thing from God when we understand it without mixing our thoughts with His. God convicts us with His light so that we, as His own, won't experience the condemnation of this world system. And yes, God has condemned this world system through the death of Christ on the Cross. The scriptures that reveal this are, 1 Cor. 11:31-32; Jhn.12:31; 14:30; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 2:2; 1 Jhn. 2:15-17; Acts 17:30-31.

When you study the history of the Church in Revelations chapters 2 and 3, we begin to see the conviction of the light that Christ is by the Holy Spirit. When speaking of the Church, particularly the four phases of Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, it is very revealing.

Thyatira being Romanism, Sardis, the Reformed religion, Philadelphia, the last revival where the beauty and brilliant unfolding of the truth that had been lost was and is revealed; and after there is Laodecia.

A Laodicean is someone who has been given Philadelphian light but does not have the power. (1 Cor. 1:24). A Laodicean is someone that has light but doesn't have what the light should produce.

The Philadelphian light spoke and still speaks, of the new creation life in Christ. What is it in God's sight to have the light that Christ is and not walk according to it?

Jesus said that He was not of this world system, a religious system that used the most powerful political and ungodlike system to kill Him (Jhn. 17:14; Acts 2:23).

Jesus also said that all His own were and are not of this world system (Jhn. 17:16).

We have the light that Christ is in us, and let us continue with each other to walk in the light that Christ is. Lest the darkness of this world system enters in and begins, through the lie, to have a form of godliness, but deny the true power of it.

Thank God that He is still waiting to be gracious to us. He always provides a way back to Him by way of all the promises that are finished in Christ, our light.

When we, as His, are wearing the rags of this world, He is waiting for us to come to ourselves in the light of His love. A kiss of love, a robe that Christ is, a ring that speaks of His absolute approval of us in His Son, and shoes fit that carry him constantly through the darkness of this temporary world system, are waiting for Him.

We are more than conquerors through the light of Him who so greatly loves us (Rom. 8:37).