God has built into our nature an internal judicial system the conscience. It commends us when we do right and condemns us when we do wrong (cf. Acts 23:1; John 8:7-9). But this vital monitor of morality does not say the same thing to everyone (Titus 1:15). In some cultures, vengeful killing is seen as honorable. In others, a person is still considered good even when he betrays a friend.<\/p>\n
The story is told of a 10-year-old boy caught stealing a watch. He told police that previously he had shoplifted a gift for his mother, and he felt he had to do the same for his father. Although troubled about slighting his father, he had no qualms about stealing.<\/p>\n
Because of sin, our conscience is unreliable and needs a continual<\/strong> adjustment. This begins with a right relationship to God through our obedience to Christ and His teachings (Romans 6:17; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14; 1 John 1:7-9). By our Lord paying sin’s penalty, our hearts are now “sprinkled from an evil conscience” (Hebrews 10:22).<\/p>\n As we daily study and make application of the inspired Scriptures (2 Timothy 2:15 KJV; Acts 17:11; Romans 12:2; Hebrews 5:14), they place an inner monitor within our conscience (Psalm 119:11; cf. Psalm 37:30-31) that brings us in tune with the words, deeds, and attitudes of the Lord Jesus (John 14:21; John 14:23; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 5:1-3).<\/p>\n The old adage, “Let your conscience be your guide<\/strong>,” is valid only<\/strong> if God’s Word is guiding our conscience (Acts 24:10-16; cf. 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Timothy 3:8-9; 2 Timothy 1:3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God has built into our nature an internal judicial system the conscience. It commends us when we do right and condemns us when we do wrong (cf. Acts 23:1; John 8:7-9). But this vital monitor of morality does not say the same thing to everyone (Titus 1:15). In some cultures, vengeful killing is seen as … Continue reading “Adjusting Our Conscience – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}