What is the Conscience
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How man are bothered by or OK with:
Cursing in movies
Going over the speed limit
Using playing cards
Going into debt
Secular music
Reading Harry Potter Series
Why do we have different views?
Are these areas left to every man for himself?
Conscience - your sense of what you believe is right or wrong
Conscience - your sense of what you believe is right or wrong
Your conscience is a gift from God ()
Your conscience is a gift from God ()
It is intended for your good. It is to lead us to God.
God has wired you as an imager bearer toward a relatinship with Him
It is intended for your joy ()
Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
Divets on the side of the road can be viewed as annoying or life saving
Divets on the side of the road can be viewed as annoying or life saving
The health of your conscience matters greatly to God (; 10:22)
The health of your conscience matters greatly to God (; 10:22)
He spared no cost in allowing us to be free from a guilty conscience and come before Him
I picture a hostess putting numerous welcome signs that bids her guests to come in
Your conscience looks to a standard and testifies as to whether you are right or wrong
Your conscience looks to a standard and testifies as to whether you are right or wrong
Look at the wording of bearing witness
Look at the description of the conscience as being good, clean, weak, defiled, seared
The blessing of the good conscience- it give me boldness when others stand against. It is held before God. When maintained. ones life is effective before others.
The negative of the weak conscience is not the same as the seared conscience. One is hypersensitive, and one is not sensitive at all. The hypersensitive and seared conscience can be found in the same person.
This leads to the next truth about the conscience
Your conscience needs to be calibrated continually by God’s Word
Your conscience needs to be calibrated continually by God’s Word
Discuss the weak brother in . There is a truth about God that He is not believing. He is being informed by his own opinion. He must obey His conscience, but truth must be changing his conscience. In some areas God’s truth needs to make it more sensitive. In other areas God’s truth should lessen the sensitivity.
1 Timothy 1:
having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,
It is important in waging a good warfare.
It is parallel once again with a posture of trust.
I like the definition of the conscience as that which connects proper belief to proper conduct. The conscience need to be informed correctly and it needs to bel listened to.
When it is rejected their is disaster in terms of the faith
Heresy is a result of failing to listen to the conscience.