Satan and the Holy Spirit

In Crash the Chatterbox, Steven Furtick discusses in Section 3 the differences between condemnation and conviction.  Here are a few quotes to help you know whether the voice you hear is Satan or the Holy Spirit:

Satan's main job isn't temptation. It's accusation...When the two work in tandem, the one-two punch they deliver can paralyze even the strongest saints.

In other words, I needed to acknowledge the substance of my sin. But then I needed to allow the Holy Spirit to take my guilt to a redemptive place.

The Enemy may have a word. But he doesn't have the last word.

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret.

A believer who is equally convinced of these two realities--sin is serious, but Christ is enough--is the Enemy's worst nightmare.

Condemnation's greatest talent is imitation. Conviction is the work of the Holy Spirit. Condemnation is the Enemy's best impersonation of the Holy Spirit's work.

Condemnation will always prompt you to speak in the first person about your failures and flaws.

 That's God's favorite way to start conversations with His children: "Come." By contrast, condemnation will never call you to come into God's presence.

But the Spirit's conviction will point you to the Cross, where the cost of those sins has already been satisfied. And the Father's compassion will fill you with forgiveness, raising you to new life . . .

Rehearsing the gospel-the good news of what Christ has done-will set off a nuclear melt-down in condemnation's generating station.

I want us to consider how the Holy Spirit--the Counselor--is our Divine Reminder.