From One Degree to Another

Phil Auxier's Blog

  • Home
  • About
  • Archive

Connect

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Powered by Genesis

Sinners in Hands of a Loving God

May 4, 2013 by Phil Auxier

That’s the title of a chapter we recently explored in Small Groups (Gospel Identity, Chapter 6).  Many Christians live life as if God is angry with them when they mess up.  Much of this understanding isn’t found in the reality that we are adopted sons and daughters of God, but rather in thinking of what are reality was apart from Christ.  When we discussed this chapter in small groups, there was an additional article entitled “Is God Angry With Me When I Sin?”  The issue has to do with God loving His children, disciplining them and what this looks like.  What’s the difference between conviction and condemnation?

Here’s how they answered it at the Village Church in a post entitled The Grace of Conviction:

  1. Conviction might taste bitter to the tongue, but is sweet to the soul. God leads us toward life in Him even if it stings (Ps. 30:5).
  2. Condemnation includes a stench of death and hopelessness (Rom. 8:2).
  3. Conviction, though pointed at times, lightens the heart and soul of a person (Rom. 2:4).
  4. Condemnation is overbearing and heavy upon the soul. It crushes because hope released from that burden falls square on the shoulders of something or someone other than the atoning work of Christ (Rom. 5:9).
  5. In conviction, God’s love is seen very clearly. This means it is utterly inspired by love.
  6. Condemnation turns everything inward toward self. So, rather than looking to the Lord for covering, provision and redemption, we look to self early and often in our shame and self-pity.

Those in Christ have been given the Holy Spirit to lead us into more and more holiness. Conviction is one of God’s sweetest gifts to His children. Rest in His grace and walk in His glorious light! Through conviction by the Holy Spirit, God both saves and sanctifies His children.

Today, then, be reminded of what God’s done in the Gospel (maybe even by watching this video) and receive fresh grace from God to make you holy.  

Filed Under: anger, conviction, Forgiveness, Small Groups

From One Degree To Another?

Yeah, that's right. My one, consuming passion is Jesus Christ, my Lord. I'm totally gripped by one message: the Gospel - the good news that God came after me when I was far from Him. So, the life I live, I live by faith in Him: He loved me and gave Himself for me.

From One Degree To Another is the change that He's accomplishing in me by grace. Growing downward in humility, upward into Him, outward toward others, and inward with renewal characterize my existence.

This site is where I flesh all of these types of things out, including my life as a slave to Jesus, husband, father, coffee-enjoyer, and pastor. I hope it encourages you.

RSS My latest sermons at Crestview

  • Love One Another April 27, 2025
  • The Word of Contentment April 20, 2025
  • Good Friday 2025 April 19, 2025

Categories

  • 1 Corinthians
  • 1 Samuel
  • 2016
  • abide
  • advent
  • Apologetics
  • Baby Dedication
  • Bible Intake
  • Book Review
  • Books
  • Camp
  • CBCH2Go
  • CCM
  • Chandler
  • Church
  • Colossians
  • conference
  • conferences
  • confession
  • COVID
  • Crestview
  • CrestviewKids
  • devotions
  • Easter
  • Elders
  • Elyse Fitzpatrick
  • Ephesians
  • Evangelism
  • Faith
  • family
  • food
    • ChickFilA
  • For The Church
  • Free Audio
  • Funeral
  • Goals
  • Good Friday
  • Gospel Friday
  • Gospel of John
  • gratitude
  • Great Commission
  • H2Go
  • health update
  • heart
  • Heaven
  • Holy Spirit
  • Holy Week
  • Hutchinson
  • Isaiah
  • Jesus
  • Job
  • Judgment
  • kansas
  • leadership
  • life
  • Lord's Supper
  • love
  • LRC
  • LRCAA
  • mental health
  • Missions
  • Music
  • Palm Sunday
  • Parenting
  • Paul Tripp
  • Peace
  • personal
  • Piper
  • Planning
  • prayer
  • Preaching
  • Psalms
  • Ray Ortlund
  • reading
  • recommendations
  • rest
  • Resurrection
  • Retreat
  • revelation
  • Revival
  • Russell Moore
  • salvation
  • Scotty Smith
  • Scripture Memory
  • Sermons
  • service
  • Shai Linne
  • sin
  • Small Groups
  • Suffering
  • Sunday School
  • Technology
  • Thanks
  • Thanksgiving
  • Uncategorized
  • vacation recap
  • valley of vision
  • VBS
  • Weakness
  • Week of Prayer
  • Weekend Preview
  • Weekend Recap
  • women's ministry
  • worship

Recent Posts

  • The Word of Victory
  • The Word of Suffering
  • The Word of Affection
  • Confidence in Suffering?
  • Cutting Through the Fog of Suffering