And
finally, He convinces of judgment, not a judgment to come, but the judgment for
sin which Christ endured upon the cross. Chafer says on this point:
When the Spirit enlightens the Satan-blinded mind regarding sin, righteousness, and
judgment, that otherwise blinded mind is at once more than normally enabled to
understand the three great foundational truths that sin has been judged,
righteousness is available in and through Christ, and the condemning sin is
failure to believe that which God now offers the sinner, namely, a perfect
salvation in and through Christ the Savior. No soul can be saved apart from
this enlightenment, for no other power is sufficient to break through the
blindness which Satan has imposed on the minds of those who are lost.3
3 L. S. Chafer, Systematic Theology (Dallas: Dallas Seminary
Press, 1947), Vol. III, p. 222.
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