A Conscience without Offense Acts 24:16

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Like Jiminy Cricket, many say always let your
conscience be your guide
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Your Conscience Can Be...

• Evil, Heb. 1022
• Dead, Heb. 914
• Defiled, Tit. 115
• Seared, 1 Ti. 42
• Weak, 1 Cor. 87

• Good, Acts 231
• Cleansed, He. 914
• Pure, 2 Tim. 13
• Without offense, Acts 2416

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A Conscience Without OffenseActs 2416

• Understanding, cleansing, training
• and protecting the human conscience

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What is your conscience?

• Faculty of mind by which we assess right and
  wrong
• Monitor or gauge of what we do, Acts 231
• Not the final measure of Gods approval, 1 Tim.
  113 (2 Cor. 1012)

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What does your conscience do?

• Commends us or condemns us to ourselves, Rom.
  215
• May cause guilt and shame, Jno. 89
• May warn us of potential wrong-doing, 1 Cor. 87
• May approve us, Acts 269

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What does your conscience do?

• Functions on the basis of what it knows, Rom.
  215 1 Cor. 87
• Bears witness that one has a knowledge of sin,
  Rom. 320 91 2 Cor. 112
• Therefore, the knowledge upon which conscience
  rests must be accurate, or the conscience will
  not give a true reading! (cf. Saul of Tarsus)

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Cleansing your conscience

• Possible through the blood of Jesus Christ, Heb.
  99, 14
• By an obedient faith, Heb. 1022
• Baptism is the answer of a good conscience
  toward God 1 Peter 321

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Training your conscience

• With a knowledge of Gods word, Phil. 19-11
• Learn live the commands of God, 1 Tim.
  15
• Grow in faith, 1 Tim. 119
• Serve God, 2 Tim. 13

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Protecting your conscience

• Dont defile your conscience!
• With doubt, Rom. 1422-23
• Protection Dont violate it (Rom.
  145 1 Cor. 87, 10, 12)
• With apathy, James 417
• Protection Do right, even to the point of
  suffering (1 Pet. 219 316)

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Protecting your conscience

• Dont defile your conscience!
• With false doctrine, 1 Tim. 41-2
• Protection Pure doctrine (1 Tim.
  43 39)
• With willful sin, Rom. 135
• Protection Humility sincerity (2 Cor.
  112 Heb. 1318)

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A Conscience Without OffenseActs 2416

• Operates in full assurance of faith
• (Hebrews 1022)

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A Conscience Without OffenseActs 2416

• Must be properly taught and trained to help us
  avoid sin and do Gods will
• (1 Timothy 15)