CONSCIENCE: GOD'S UMPIRE

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Conscience God's Umpire
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1 TIMOTHY 15

• WHAT IS CONSCIENCE?

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CONSCIENCE IS GODS UMPIREDANIEL 221

• CONSCIENCE IS GODS DIVINE COMPASS
• PSALMS 119105
• CONSCIENCE IS GODS GPS
• MATTHEW 21, 9

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CONSCIENCE IS GODS SURGICAL TOOLHEBREWS 412

• CONSCIENCE IS GODS SONAR
• JONAH 21, 2 22
• CONSCIENCE IS GODS RADAR
• PSALMS 1397, 8

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CONSCIENCE DICTATES NOT DEBATES

• JESUS TOLD NICODEMUS, YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.

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CONSCIENCE IS DIVINITY INTERACTING WITH HUMANITY

• GENESIS 27
• And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
  ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life and man became a living soul.

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CONSCIENCE MUST BE EDUCATED

• PROVERBS 226
• Train up a child in the way he should go and
  when he is old, he will not depart from it.
• ILLUSTRATION
• CONSCIENCETELL THE TRUTH!
• ADVERSARYDONT TELL IT!
• WILLWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

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CONSCIENCE SCREAMS YOURE IN A MESSWHY NOT
CONFESS!

• WHAT MADE
• ADAM AND EVE HIDE FROM GOD?
• PILATES WIFE SAID, HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS
  MAN!
• JUDAS SAID, I HAVE BETRAYED INNOCENT BLOOD.
• JACOB RAN FROM ESAUBIRTHRIGHT?

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WHATS THE MESSAGE?

• JACOB NEEDED A PURE CONSCIENCE, AND NOT AN
  EMOTIONALLY CHARGED MESSAGE.
• TESTIMONIES, VOL 5, p. 301
• If the preaching is of an emotional character,
  it will affect the feelings, but not the heart
  and conscience.

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BIBLE FOUR KINDS OF CONSCIENCES

1. CONVICTED CONSCIENCEJOHN 89
2. SEARED CONSCIENCE1 TIMOTHY 42
3. PURE CONSCIENCE1 TIMOTHY 39
4. DEFILED CONSCIENCETITUS 115

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1. CONVICTED CONSCIENCE

• STORY JOHN 81-9-11 WOMAN
• STORY ACTS 91-6 SAUL
• A CONVICTED CONSCIENCE COMES BY MEANS OF
• A DREAMNEBUCHADNEZZARDANIEL 2
• VISIONSAULACTS 9
• ADVERSITYJOBJOB 42
• GOSPELPRISON WARDENACTS 1626-31
• DENIALPETERMARK 1467-72

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CONVICTIONCONSCIENCE INSTINCT SUPERSEDES
INTELLIGENCE

• BALAAMS DONKEY SPOKE TO HIM
• SANCTIFIED LIFE, p. 76
• Of all the creatures that God has made upon the
  earth, man alone is rebellious. Yet he possesses
  reasoning powers to understand the claims of the
  divine law and a conscience to feel the guilt of
  transgression and the peace and joy of obedience.

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EVANGELISM, p. 542

• Thus the truth is to be made impressive as a
  great whole and command the intellect. Truth,
  Bible truth, is to become the authority for the
  conscience and the love and life of the soul.

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A CONVICTED CONSCIENCE SOFTENS WHILE AND SEARED
CONSCIENCE HARDENS

• ACTS 95, 6

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2. WE MOVE TO A SEARED CONSCIENCE

• 1 TIMOTHY 42
• WHOS SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY?
• 1 TIMOTHY 41
• THEREFORE, IF RIGHTEOUS MEMBERS SIMMER WITH
  ANGER, OUTBURST, AND INDIGNATION, SHOULD WE
  EXPECT THE UNRIGHTEOUS TO SING WITH JOY?

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• IF SOME MEMBERS ARE OFFENDED BY TRUTH, SHOULD WE
  BLAME UNBELIEVERS WHO WELCOME TRADITION?
• GALATIANS 214
• MEANWHILE, WE ARE BLAMING THEM (UNBELIEVERS),
  THEY ARE BLAMING USWHOS AT FAULT?
• ROMANS 224

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IS A SEARED CONSCIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOCRISY?

• 1 TIMOTHY 42
• HYPOCRISY INVOLVES SAYING ONE THING WHILE DOING
  THE CONTRARY.
• HYPOCRISYPLAY ACTING
• STORY SEARED CONSCIENCELUKE 416-29
• WHILE JESUS MOTIVE TOWARD HIS CHURCH WAS OF A
  PURE CONSCIENCE, THE CHURCHES MOTIVE TOWARD HIM
  WAS OF A SEARED CONSCIENCE.

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3. WE MOVE TO A PURE CONSCIENCE.

• WHAT IS A PURE CONSCIENCE?
• A PURE CONSCIENCE IS THE OPPOSITE OF A DEFILED
  CONSCIENCE.
• A PURE CONSCIENCE DOES NOT MEDICATE YOU. IT
  TRANSFORMS YOU.
• JEREMIAH 4611 2 CHRONICLES 1610-12

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

• A PURE CONSCIENCE WILL
• SET YOU FREENOT HOLD YOU HOSTAGE
• MAKE YOU GLADNOT MAKE YOU SAD
• HEAL YOUNOT HURT YOU
• CARE FOR YOUNOT CRITICIZE YOU
• PREACH TRUTH (BIBLE TRUTH) NOT TRADITION

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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, p. 431

• ALL WHO IN THAT EVIL DAY WOULD FEARLESSLY SERVE
  GOD ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF CONSCIENCE, WILL
  NEED COURAGE, FIRMNESS, AND A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
  AND HIS WORD FOR THOSE WHO ARE TRUE TO GOD WILL
  BE PERSECUTED, AND THEIR NAMES CAST OUT AS EVIL.
  SATAN STRIVES TO STIR UP AGAINST THEM THE RAGE OF
  THOSE WHO, WHILE CLAIMING TO BE RIGHTEOUS,
  TRAMPLE UPON THE LAW OF GOD.

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4. WE MOVE TO A DEFILED CONSCIENCE

• WHEN IS OUR CONSCIENCE DEFILED?
• WHEN EVIL IS DESCRIBED AS GOOD
• WHEN THE SACRED IS TREATED AS COMMON.
• ACTS 51-9 ANANIAS SAPPHIRA
• THEIR DEFILED CONSCIENCE TOOK THEM FROM THEIR
  HOME GROUND, TO THE CHURCH GROUND, TO THE BURIAL
  GROUND!

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WHEN IS OUR CONSCIENCE DEFILED?

• WHEN WE DELIBERATELY REMAIN IN-HOUSE, INSTEAD OF
  GOING TO GODS HOUSE.
• WHEN WE WORK SIX DAYS A WEEK TO PAY A DEBT WE
  OWE, BUT FIND A CLUMSY REASON NOT TO GO AND
  WORSHIP GOD WHOM WE CLAIM TO KNOW.

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A DEFILED CONSCIENCE MAKES ONE UNHAPPY IN A
CHURCH FULL OF HAPPY PEOPLE!

• MARK 121-26 MAN-EVIL SPIRIT
• WHEN OUR CONSCIENCE IS DEFILED, OUR PEACE OF MIND
  GOES OUT THE WINDOW.
• BUT WITH A PURE CONSCIENCE, WE ARE ABLE TO SLEEP
  IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER.
• AIR
• LAND
• SEA

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HOW DOES CONSCIENCE WORK?

• IT WORKS FROM THE INSIDE OUTWHILE THE PHYSICAL
  MAN WORKS FROM THE OUTSIDE IN.
• EPHESIANS 612
• WHEN WE WALK IN THE FLESH, WE LIVE LIKE ANIMALS.
  BUT WHEN WE WALK IN THE SPIRIT, WE LIVE LIKE
  ANGELS.
• 2 PETER 210, 12 JUDE 10

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CHANGE DOES NOT COME BY ALTERING ONES
ENVIRONMENT

• CHANGE BEGINS FROM THE INSIDE OUT!
• JOHN 87-11 WOMANADULTERY
• WHILE THE LAW ONLY AFFECTED HER ON THE OUTSIDE,
  WHEN JESUS SPOKE TO HER, HIS SPEECH CONSCIENCE
  AFFECTED HER FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
• THATS WHY THE LAW DETERS THE ACTION, BUT NOT THE
  INTENT.

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A DEFILED CONSCIENCE MADE A PERFECT DESIGN
MALFUNCTIONEDWHO?

• LUCIFER

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MINDINTELLECTAND EMOTION ALWAYS JUSTIFY WHAT
CONSCIENCE CONDEMNS

• ILLUSTRATION
• 2 SAMUEL 111-27 DAVIDBATHSHEBA

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COSMIC CONFLICT SPIRITUAL VS. PHYSICAL WARFARE

• FLESH SAYSLOOK!
• MINDGO GET HER!
• CONSCIENCETURN AROUND AND WALK AWAY!
• LOGICIF LOOKING IS WRONG, WHAT ARE EYES MADE
  FOR?
• REASONSHE BEAUTIFUL!
• WILLWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

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THAT DEPENDS ON WHETHER WE ARE SPIRITUAL!

• CONSCIENCEWALK AWAY!
• MINDGROW UP!
• WILLWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
• IF YOU ARE SPIRITUAL, YOULL WALK AWAY. BUT IF
  YOU ARE CARNAL, YOULL HAVE IT YOUR WAY. WHY?
  BECAUSE DRIVEN BY YOUR FLESH, AND JUSTIFIED BY
  YOUR LOGIC, YOULL DO WHAT YOUR MIND TELLS YOU
  TO. WHY? BECAUSE REASON ALWAYS JUSTIFIES WHAT
  CONSCIENCE CONDEMNS.

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CONSCIENCE NEVER BOWS TO OUTSIDEPEER PRESSURE!

• READ 1 KINGS 221-8 AHAB JEHOSHAPHAT
• CHRISTIANS ARE HERE TO CONQUER, NOT COMPROMISE.
  JUST BECAUSE FOUR HUNDRED SOLDIERS AND ONE KING
  STAND AGAINST GODS PROPHET, DOES NOT MAKE THEM
  RIGHT!

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TRUTH THATS PREACHED WITH A PURE CONSCIENCE IS
NOT DETERMINED BY A GALLUP POLL

• CHRISTIANS NOWADAYS ARE MORE INCLINED TO ATTEND A
  BANQUET AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THAN THEY WOULD
  INQUIRE A WORD AT GODS HOUSE.
• NEITHER DOES RIGHTEOUSNESS COME BY A MAJORITY OF
  FOUR HUNDRED SOLDIERS AND ONE STUBBORN KING.
• KING AHAB DEFILED HIS CONSCIENCE BY GOING TO
  BATTLE WITHOUT INQUIRING A WORD FROM THE LORD.

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• THE WORLDS BEST HOPE IS A REVIVAL OF A PURE
  CONSCIENCE. AND WALKING IN THE SPIRIT WILL ENABLE
  US TO DO JUST THAT.
• SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT?
• CONSCIENCEGET UP AND GO TO CHURCH!
• MINDWHATS THE RUSH?
• WILLWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
• THAT DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU ARE SPIRITUAL!

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WHEN WE DEFILE THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE, WE EXPECT
TO WALK IN THE SPIRIT?

• WE WONT GO TO CHURCHBUT WE WILL GO TO THE
  STADIUM AND WATCH A SPORTS EVENT, GO TO A
  CONCERT, EVEN WALK IN SUPPORT OF A MARATHON OR
  TELETHON, OR SIT, STAND, CHEER, AND WAVE OUR
  TEAMS BANNER IN ANY KIND OF WEATHER, RIGHT!
• THEN WE SAY LIKE KING SAUL, God is departed
  from me, and answereth me no more, neither by
  prophets, nor by dreams..
• 1 SAMUEL 2815, 16

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CONSCIENCE CAN LEAVE A BAD TASTE IN THE MOUTH AND
BLOOD STAINS ON THE HANDS.

• PILATE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDEEM HIMSELF.
  INSTEAD, HE CHOSE TO PLEASE MEN AND NOT GOD.
• STORY MARK 15 15 MATTHEW 2724-26
• QUESTION
• WOULD YOU HAVE ACTED DIFFERENTLY THAN PILATE HAD
  TOWARD JESUS?
• IS JESUS LORD OF YOUR LIFE?
• WHO IS HE TO YOU?

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IN CONCLUSION CONSCIENCE IS GODS UMPIRE.

• REVELATION 320
• Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any
  man US hear my voice CONSCIENCE, and open the
  door, I will come in to him THATS WHERE AN
  UMPIRE COMES IN, and will sup with him, and he
  with me.
• WILLWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

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