CONSCIENCE;
TONGUE; PROFANITY

But when a conscience has become seared, when a man has played with the fire and burned his conscience and calloused it until he can handle the hot iron of sin without shrinking, there is no longer any safety for him.

Titus wrote in his epistle about those to whom nothing is pure any longer, “both their minds and consciences are corrupted” (Titus 1:15).

Here Titus speaks of an inward corruption, revealed in impure thoughts and soiled language. I am just as afraid of people with soiled tongues as I am of those with a communicable disease.

Actually, a foul tongue is evidence of a deeper spiritual disease and Titus goes on to tell us that those with defiled consciences become reprobates, something just washed up on the shore, a moral shipwreck.

John 8:7–9; Ephesians 5:3–4; 1 Timothy 1:5–6; 1 Timothy 4:1–2; Titus 1:15–16

Echoes from Eden, 64, 65.