The Importance of a Good Conscience Acts 24:16

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a
  conscience void to offence toward God, and toward
  men.

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• Is your conscience troubled?
• 2 Corinthians 112
• For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our
  conscience, that in simplicity and godly
  sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
  grace of God, we have had our conversation in the
  world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• Your peace reflects a peaceful conscience.
• There is no pillow so soft as a peaceful
  conscience.

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• We have the ability to either tranquilize or
  disturb ourselves
• Our thinking can either torture or give us peace
• Our conscience can make us happy, unhappy, well,
  sick, etc
• The conscience revives memory
• Unforgiven deeds
• Overcome temptations

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• A guilty conscience often makes one a coward and
  one who is defeated
• John 89
• And they which heard it, being convicted by their
  own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at
  the eldest, even unto the last and Jesus was
  left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
• 1 Timothy 42
• Speaking lies in hypocrisy having their
  conscience seared with a hot iron

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• A nagging, painful conscience can drive one to
  disintegration
• It is medically proven that ones conscience can
  make one sick.
• Isaiah 118
• Isaiah 4325
• Psalms 865
• Psalms 10312
• Hebrews 812

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• A hurting conscience must be cured
• Will cause one to accuse others
• They do it too
• Romans 21
• Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever
  thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest
  another, thou condemnest thyself for thou that
  judgest doest the same things.
• Romans 215
• Which shew the work of the law written in their
  hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,
  and their thoughts the mean while accusing or
  else excusing one another)

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• A good conscience is essential for a good life
• 1 Timothy 15
• Now the end of the commandment is charity out of
  a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of
  faith unfeigned
• 1 John 31
• Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
  bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
  sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not,
  because it knew him not.
• Romans 91
• I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my
  conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy
  Ghost,

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• We have a good conscience when we dont condemn
  the things we do
• Romans 1422
• Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God.
  Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that
  thing which he alloweth.
• Our conscience can be misgudied
• Acts 231
• And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said,
  Men and brethren, I have lived in all good
  conscience before God until this day.

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The Importance of a Good ConscienceActs 2416

• The greatest tranquilizer we have is a good
  conscience.