Conviction VS. Condemnation (EP 81)
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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today, listen, normally we're having a lot of guests on. We're gonna start having more guests on, but you know what? Thought it would be good to start the year off with a classic podcast, because you guys love it when we dive in the Word of God, talk about things. By the title of this video, we're gonna be talking about something that is really near and dear to my heart, and that's the difference between conviction and condemnation. I believe that we have to understand the difference between the two, because it's important. And a lot of us end up living in shame when there's actually a lot of freedom for us. So I'm really excited about today, guys.
Also, thank you guys for the encouragement on the Luke series. I'm so glad you guys are super blessed by it. It's going to be amazing. But listen, we're just going to dive right in and talk about conviction and condemnation and talk about what the Bible says. What freedom is there? What does this look like? So let's dive right in. I think the first thing we can always do, which this is always positive advice that I have for everyone, everything can always be pointed back to the cross. And so I think it's a beauty of it. Before you get into what the definitions of conviction and condemnation are, all of these things, we have to understand the purpose of the cross. What is the purpose of the cross?
The purpose of the cross is to pay the debt in which we condemn ourselves for. The purpose of the cross is to wipe our slate clean in which our sin puts us in an unpayable debt with God. And the only way for us to pay for it is with the death of our own life. But because Jesus has compassion on us, he takes on the punishment that we deserve for our sin in which it unites us with him in eternity. That's a beautiful thing. But in order to receive that, you have to receive it. And I think that's awesome. And something that my roommate encouraged me with, he said, he was like, man, we don't pray for forgiveness. We pray from it. We pray from forgiveness because on the cross, death was defeated and we were forgiven. So we say, God, thank you for forgiving me now, blank.
And I think that's beautiful. But let's talk about conviction and condemnation. Here's the difference between conviction and condemnation. Conviction is from the Holy Spirit. It leads to repentance. It offers forgiveness. In conviction, the movement of conviction in your heart actually allows you to run to Jesus for grace. Whereas condemnation, it's from the devil. It leads to self-hatred. It offers guilt and you run from God and shame. I mean, look in the garden, in the garden of Eden. You have Adam and Eve who blatantly disobey God and their response of disobedience is, let me hide from him. Now, if you go to second Corinthians, I'm flipping there right now. Second Corinthians 7.10 says, for godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret.
Whereas worldly grief produces death. Worldly grief looks like this. Worldly grief looks like this. God is coming, so I'm going to run away. Godly grief looks like God is coming, so I'm going to run to him. And that's a beautiful thing about conviction, because when we are convicted by something, it says, God is coming. I need to run him. We run to Jesus for grace and condemnation says, oh, gosh, God is coming. I need to run and hide. It leads to self-hatred and offers. You know, it was crazy about self-condemnation is that oftentimes self-condemnation leads to actual more sin and regret. We say to ourselves, oh, I can't tell anyone. I've got to hide. Someone's going to look at me differently, or this isn't that, or God doesn't love me, or things like that. This isn't that. But no, it leads to actual more sin and regret in our lives. when we don't come to the Lord for confession and we don't come to the Lord and say, God, I need help. This is an area in my life I'm struggling with.
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