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speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! now come, that you will be scattered, each to
30 Now we are sure that You know all things, his own, and will leave Me alone. And yet I am
and have no need that anyone should question not alone, because the Father is with Me.
You. By this we believe that You came forth 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in
from God.” Me you may have peace. In the world you will
31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have
believe? Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has overcome the world.”
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DAY 7:What very specific ministry does the Holy Spirit have on people’s lives?

In John 16:8, the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was approximately 40 or more days
away at this point (Acts 2:1–13). Jesus says that the Holy Spirit’s ministry is to “convict”people.This
word has two meanings:1) the judicial act of conviction with a view toward sentencing (i.e.,a court-
room term—conviction of sin) or 2) the act of convincing. Here the second idea is best, since the
purpose of the Holy Spirit is not condemnation but conviction of the need for the Savior.The Son
does the judgment, with the Father (5:22,27,30). In v. 14, it is said that He will reveal the glories of
Christ to His people. He will also inspire the writing of the New Testament, guiding the apostles to
write it (v. 13), and He will reveal things to come, through the New Testament prophecies (v. 13).
The Holy Spirit convicts of “sin”(v. 9).The singular indicates that a specific sin is in view; i.e., that
of not believing in Jesus as Messiah and Son of God.This is the only sin,ultimately,that damns people
to hell.Though all men are depraved,cursed by their violation of God’s law,and sinful by nature,what
ultimately damns them to hell is their unwillingness to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior (8:24).
He convicts of “righteousness” (v. 10). The Holy Spirit’s purpose here is to shatter the preten-
sions of self-righteousness (hypocrisy), exposing the darkness of the heart.While Jesus was on the
earth,He performed this task especially toward the shallowness and emptiness of Judaism that had
degenerated into legalistic modes without life-giving reality.With Jesus gone to the Father,the Holy
Spirit continues His convicting role.
And of “judgment”(v.11).The judgment here in context is that of the world under Satan’s con-
trol. Its judgments are blind, faulty, and evil as evidenced in their verdict on Christ.The world can’t
make righteous judgments (7:24), but the Spirit of Christ does (8:16). All Satan’s adjudications are
lies (8:44–47), so the Spirit convicts men of their false judgment of Christ. Satan, the ruler of the
world (14:30; Eph. 2:1–3) who, as the god of this world, has perverted the world’s judgment and
turned people from believing in Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God (2 Cor. 4:4), was defeated at
the Cross.While Christ’s death looked like Satan’s greatest victory,it actually was Satan’s destruction
(Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14,15; Rev. 20:10).The Spirit will lead sinners to true judgment.

6 So King Jehoram went out of Samaria at that
JUNE 8 time and mustered all Israel. Then he went and
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sent to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, “The
king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you
go with me to fight against Moab?”
2 Kings 3:1–4:44
And he said, “I will go up; I am as you are,
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became my people as your people, my horses as your
3 king over Israel at Samaria in the eigh- horses.” Then he said, “Which way shall we
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teenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and go up?”
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reigned twelve years. And he did evil in the And he answered, “By way of the Wilder-
sight of the LORD, but not like his father and ness of Edom.”
mother; for he put away the sacred pillar of 9 So the king of Israel went with the king of
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Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless Judah and the king of Edom, and they
he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam the son of marched on that roundabout route seven
Nebat, who had made Israel sin; he did not days; and there was no water for the army, nor
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depart from them. for the animals that followed them. And the
4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep- king of Israel said, “Alas! For the LORD has
breeder, and he regularly paid the king of Is- called these three kings together to deliver
rael one hundred thousand lambs and the them into the hand of Moab.”
wool of one hundred thousand rams. But it 11 But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet
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happened, when Ahab died, that the king of of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the
Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. LORD by him?”
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