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The Father Disciplines and Convicts Us of Sin Out of Love

March 16, 2025

Speaker:

Samuel Hollings

Series

Conviction & Embrace

This Lenten season, we will create space for the Lord to move for the sake of growing closer to Jesus and the way of Jesus. The way of Jesus is life and life abundant. It is also life through constraint, sacrifice, and even suffering. Our own missing the mark, our own sin, keeps that life far from us and keeps the work of death close. Pursuing life means giving God space to convict us of sin and to embrace us with forgiveness. Conviction of sin by the God of love gives us space to seek God for life, mercy, and for forgiveness. Condemnation simply closes us in our own darkness. It robs us of hope. Yes, conviction exposes our sin as light piercing darkness. However, the revelatory light of conviction is joined by the warmth of the Father’s love for us. We will experience both this Lent as we go deeper with Conviction & Embrace, our Lenten teaching series.

God’s love for us like a father or parent takes many forms, one of which is discipline. When we receive conviction or discipline from God, this is only and always a way our Heavenly Father is loving us. It is God lovingly leading us to what He knows is good, and will lead to goodness for us. Discipline is God drawing us in. Drawing us in to knowing Him better, and drawing us in to a deeper relationship of being His children.

Speaker

Sam Hollings

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