0456. No More Conscience for Sin

No More Conscience for Sin

"For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins" (Heb_10:2).

We desire to take this verse somewhat out of its setting.

It is possible to have no conscience of sins in a double sense.

First: One may have no conscience of sin because he has slain his conscience. He may be so given over to his sins, that nothing he does, or thinks, or says, will seem to matter. He reaches that stage in life where he has no sense of sin.

He is so corrupt that he seems not to know that there is anything better.

To be sure, very few have ever reached this place: very few have gone so far that they will never again have their conscience stirred.

Illustration: One man said that he had gone so low that he could not touch bottom, and yet there came a time in his life when he saw himself all undone; he was convicted of his sins and turned to God.

Second: There is another sense in which we may have no more conscience of sins. It is not when our conscience is dead; but when our sins are gone.

There are those who have no rest by day nor by night. Their sins are ever before them. Their conscience is ever biting and burning within them.

They are like the troubled sea when it can not rest; whose waters stir up the mire and the dirt. Not so with the redeemed. There came a time in their life when they cried out: "God, be merciful to me a sinner," and God put their sins beneath the Blood; they were forgiven.

Their sins were gone and they could shout and sing in the blessedness of a complete salvation.

This is what Paul meant when he said, "Therefore being justified by faith, let us have peace."

If our sins are taken away, why should they ever be before us? Let conscience rest in the perfect and finished work of Christ.

Oh, the joy of trusting, resting,

In the work of Calvary,

Knowing Christ has died to save me,

And from sin has set me free;

No more does my conscience stir me,

No more stinging shame,

I am shouting "Hallelujah!"

"Glory to His name."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR