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Please me, Mark. 
Chapter 6, let's read a couple 

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verses together. 
Mark chapter 6 and verse 14. 

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Here's what the Bible says to us
today. 

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King Herod heard of it. 
For Jesus name had become known.

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Some said, John the Baptist has 
been raised from the dead. 

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That is why these miraculous 
powers are at work in him. 

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But others said he is Elijah. 
And others said he is a prophet 

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like one of the prophets of old.
But when Herod heard of it, he 

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said, John whom I beheaded has 
been raised. 

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Lord, we pray again. 
And we ask that you help us. 

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We thank you that you have not 
left us to our own. 

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You have given us your word, a 
lamp, to our feet. 

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You've given us Direction, and 
to Holiness and from Holiness, 

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and to Hope and joy, and peace. 
We ask Lord, that there would be

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a great help from the Holy 
Spirit at this time in the 

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delivery and the reception that 
the name of your son, Jesus 

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would be exalted and bless. 
May we be overwhelmed by the 

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wisdom. 
Of Who You Are. 

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And may we be eager to obey what
you say. 

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Amen. 
The Lord instructed and 

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empowered his disciples. 
For a Ministry that Ministry was

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a preaching Outreach within the 
boundaries of Israel, to give 

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them the gospel, to demonstrate 
the power of the name of Jesus 

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Christ. 
And immediately, after being 

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informed about this send-off, we
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success of their Endeavour, the 
news of their Deliverance, the 

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news of the healing and the 
preaching that was breaking out 

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all across Galilee has reached 
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reached the Ears of many 
high-profile men and one of 

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those men, as you just heard, 
was King Herod King Herod heard 

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about what was happening in the 
name of Jesus. 

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And that is the person of the 
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for us in order to understand 
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having. 
But before looking more into who

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Herod was on, why Herod is 
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Let us consider what is 
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What is happening here at this 
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and we read that Jesus name had 
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This is significant for many 
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it tells us the way that the 
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It shows us what and how they 
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service, to the Lord. 
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not the name of the disciples 
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It was the name of Jesus. 
Jesus, all that they did and all

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that, they preached pointed to 
the person of Christ. 

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There was no ambiguity, there is
no confusion about what their 

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message was about, or who was 
the source of all the power that

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was put on display. 
It was Christ's people left the 

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meeting. 
Speaking of Christ people were 

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impressed by Christ. 
And this shows that they were 

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effective in giving glory to 
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shows that they did not for any 
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themselves unnecessarily, but 
they successfully presented 

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Jesus as the object of men's 
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And when people experienced, 
what Jesus could offer Christ 

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got the glory. 
And if they didn't they, at 

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least heard that Christ was 
their only hope. 

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And I look at that and I think 
Lord, if it is true of that may 

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be true of us that when we go 
about when we serve you, when 

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you send us into a local church 
or a mission that we make the 

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name of Christ known of Christ 
known. 

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But with this encouraging 
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Gospel at this, Time in Jesus 
ministry, there are interesting 

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comments being made there are 
interesting comments. being made

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what you have here is people who
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Jesus was The name was obvious, 
the name was clear, but they 

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could not find it within 
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claimed to be. 
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men was unusual and so people 
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unless they be insane for 
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around them. 
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our attention, three different 
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That the masses had concerning 
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The first one here is in verse 
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Some said, John the Baptist he 
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that is why these miraculous 
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John the Baptist now, this shows
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recently died, obviously but it 
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John's influence in the nation, 
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that was happening was caused by
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Association, they had to believe
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from the dead. 
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with a parallel world, this is 
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these signs and wonders. 
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was John raised from the dead. 
There's no other better 

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explanation than that. 
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We see a second explanation that
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but others said he is Elijah, he
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Now, why would the people out of
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Elijah. 
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Old Testament, they knew their 
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that the prophet Malachi 4:5 
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God is speaking in Malachi 4:5, 
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I will send you Elijah the 
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awesome day of the Lord. 
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anticipating Elijah to return. 
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heard of him was that he was 
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and so they through Malachi were
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Messiah actually. 
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gets a little bit more complex 
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the New Testament. 
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Well, because you realize that 
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given to John the Baptist. 
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And he tells them that this boys
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before the Lord in the spirit 
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And he's going to turn the 
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children and vice versa. 
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being echoed but it's being 
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You think, what's the problem 
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Well, again, you have to realize
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Elijah would come following. 
His arrival would be the great 

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and awesome day of the Lord. 
You see all that must be the 

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arrival of Jesus. 
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And know that phrase the great 
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not Christ. 
Coming to save its Christ coming

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to judge. 
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anticipation of Israel's enemies
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Eternal Kingdom being 
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So here's the Dilemma, if John 
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of Malachi's prophecy. 
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It's not followed by the great 
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John didn't prepare people for 
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John prepared God's people for 
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It seems like we have some 
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because since nothing happened 
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actually put to death and John 
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this Rabbi from Nazareth. 
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he's preparing us for the great 
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Maybe that's what this is all 
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Thankfully Jesus solves the 
Dilemma you're there in Mark, 

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chapter 6, but scroll over to 
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Disciples of Jesus had this 
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Especially after they 
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of transfiguration. 
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chapter 9 verse 11 and they 
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say that first? 
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them, Elijah does come first to 
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And how is it written of the son
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many things, and be treated with
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But I tell you, that Elijah has 
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whatever they pleased as it is 
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Notice that Jesus did not 
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Elijah coming first, but he does
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And a more complete picture of 
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Messiah was only coming to bring
judgment that great and awesome 

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day of the Lord, was the mistake
that the disciples and the 

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scribes made, that was a 
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The Jews, lean towards the 
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that when Messiah would come. 
There would be a total Revolt, a

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Total Restoration, a total 
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globe and that this Kingdom 
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And everybody would be subdued 
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That's what their hearts lean 
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But notice what Jesus does here 
in verse 12, he brings to their 

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attention, the aspect of the 
Messiah that they often 

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overlooked. 
So it's in essence, is what's 

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happening, hey more. 
What about the predictions in 

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the Prophecies of a larger 
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Before the Messiah comes and 
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Yeah, that's true. 
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about the Messiah suffering? 
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In verse 12, read it again. 
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He says here and how it is 
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he should suffer, many things, 
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You're overlooking that. 
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his resurrection. 
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couldn't can understand how this
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die in Sufferin. 
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gives them an exegetical bible 
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Suffer. 
Well, it's happening right here.

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And so, what he is saying, is 
you're not putting the pieces of

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Prophecy together carefully. 
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Elijah is to come. 
Yes, there's a great and awesome

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day of the Lord, but there is 
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pay for the sins of the world to
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as a ransom And so, what he is 
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come and there's debate whether 
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one like John, the Baptist will 
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Elijah, but it will definitely 
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Christ, when he will bring about
judgment upon those who are 

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enemies of the Gospel, what 
about John the Baptist and well.

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He was a preview. 
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fulfillment to this prophecy in 
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And so he says, yes, he has 
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And yes, he will come. 
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great and awesome day of the 
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That is the second explanation 
that is what people thought 

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about Jesus. 
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And the third one was more 
General and verse 15 of Mark 6, 

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we read. 
He is a prophet like one of the 

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prophets of old. 
So some people said, well, he's 

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like in the same roster as Moses
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Jeremiah Jones. 
A mess. 

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He's just another gifted 
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Just giving us the message in 
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This is what people had a 
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people had a problem with and we
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that. 
How people Miss identify who 

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Jesus is? 
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something really interesting 
instead of just taking us from 

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those three explanations to the 
next part, we come back to King 

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Herod. 
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see here is that Herod is 
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No matter what the popular 
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his mind and heart that this 
Jesus was in fact, a 

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resurrected. 
John, the Baptist it has to be 

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John, the Baptist, this is got 
to be the guy and then for the 

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rest of the next dozen versus 
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So you and I get the explanation
of why Herod believe that Jesus 

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was John. 
And I'm not going to read it but

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I'll summarize it to you. 
The explanation is that Herod 

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was the one responsible for 
arresting. 

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John, the Baptist and having him
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Now here's the follow-up 
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arrested and killed by Herod? 
Explain the conclusion that this

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Jesus was John the Baptist does 
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How do those things correlate? 
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Is afraid. 
He is living in absolute dread 

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and fear has a way of 
misinterpreting and Miss 

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translating events and news, 
does it not? 

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And so he is filtering. 
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Through a fear of his concluding
that this is John coming back to

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life. 
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questions this afternoon, right?
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How do you conclude that he is 
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through fear? 
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Who's haunted by his conscience.
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Here is living in guilt and this
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fear of something lingering over
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Herod in his Palace Herod on his
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Hera with all the resources that
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a finger was being eaten Up 
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done in the past. 
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powerful. 
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rest of this story, I want to 
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my meditation pause and reading 
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to speak to you today about your
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The human conscience. 
So if you leave church this 

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afternoon, somebody asks you, 
what did you learn today? 

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Here is something you can 
borrow. 

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We received an introductory 
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conscience. 
It's such a vast subject that my

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great trouble and preparation 
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you here for three hours. 
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analysis. 
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believe just the surface of 
understanding, the Bible's 

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information and data about this 
thing that we often don't speak 

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about enough and that is the 
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We're seeing herod's conscience 
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Your conscience is constantly at
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aren't working at all. 
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I'm not going to give you my 
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start is found in Romans Chapter
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2 verse 14. 
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Bible has to say about this 
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Romans 2:14. 
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who do not have the law by 
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requires. 
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even though they do not have 
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the law is written on their 
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Also Bears witness and their 
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even, excuse them. 
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conscience is the faculty of 
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distinct role of either 
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you. 
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words, your thoughts or your 
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accuse. 
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what your conscience does to you
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excuses, you based on your 
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you make in day-to-day life. 
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divinely designed device. 
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Constitution which essentially 
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moral law of God, that has been 
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that is created in His image. 
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build the Gentiles, which is a 
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don't have the law that the Jews
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There is a law at work, it's a 
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heart. 
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hold you accountable to that 
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That is innate. that is woven 
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being The conscience is the 
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you, but it also sits on the 
Judgment seat. and it either 

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Praises you or it shames you, it
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And it is there to provide some 
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It is not infallible, though. 
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Its function is to bring about 
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man. 
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voice. 
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that inner dialogue, within 
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not the voice of God. 
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That some assume it is not the 
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from God. 
God has deposited this thing 

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called the conscience, as a 
gift, you know, pain in your 

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body. 
Whether you like to admit it or 

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not is a gift. 
The fact that you have nerve 

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endings and you can feel certain
things is God's wiring in you to

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signal to you, that you are 
putting your body in physical 

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Danger. 
If you step on something sharp 

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and you ignore that sharp 
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skin and your flesh, you risk of
being infected and then more 

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problems, follow suit. 
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and says, don't go any further, 
don't ignore this, don't 

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neglect, this, treat this. 
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what the conscious is to the 
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It is there to awaken you, it is
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attention. 
Les you Heap up more damage to 

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your spirit, to your moral 
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your sanctification. 
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is something that God has given 
to each of us and there's an 

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interesting verse and Proverbs 
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It says that the spirit of a man
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spirit of a man is the lamp of 
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searching all the innermost 
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There's something about your 
spirit that God has breathed 

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into you. 
That is constantly investigating

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you. 
And that is an instrument that 

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God has deposited in US. 
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contemplations these 
contemplations of either misery 

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or relief where they surface 
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The conscience. 
It's a lamp. 

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It's shining, it's an 
instrument, it's a tool 

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invisible, but authored by God 
hidden but ever so powerful. 

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And what we should not 
misunderstand about the 

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conscious is that it is a gift 
limited to the children of God. 

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No, you heard it in Romans that 
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Even the Heathen Gentiles have a
conscience and it has been made 

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available to everyone who has 
been created in the very image 

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of God and that is why I let me 
encourage you believer you have 

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every right to appeal to the 
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As one of the strongest proof of
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conscience. 
It not only speaks to us, it 

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speaks about the existence and 
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The fact that we all have this 
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what is right or wrong is is an 
inner Witness. 

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An inner witness. 
That is a reminder that we are 

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more than animals. 
You know, we're teaching kids 

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that they come from animals and 
then we get upset when they act 

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like animals, No, you're more 
than a beast, you're more than a

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creature that walks on its four 
legs know you are someone who 

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has been created to reflect the 
character of God and your 

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conscience Bears. 
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uniqueness of who you are but to
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Holy That he has a distinction 
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that he upholds Justice and that
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Accountable one day that is what
the conscience does. 

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One of the Puritans beautifully 
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sole reflecting upon itself. 
That is true, everything that I 

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just said to, you is the basic 
biology of the function of the 

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conscience. 
But there's so much more to say 

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about how it operates and in 
this very limited time this 

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afternoon. 
Again my challenge was I don't 

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know what I'm going to say. 
That wasn't my challenge. 

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My challenge was, I don't know 
how I'm gonna say all of it. 

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I want you to understand that 
the function of the conscious 

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and three things. 
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the role of conscience in 
society. 

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Second, I want you to see the 
use of conscience in Salvation. 

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And lastly, I want you to see 
the assistance of conscience in 

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sanctification 3, s's if you 
want to remember it, easily, 

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Society salvation. 
Sanctification Society, 

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salvation, sanctification. 
There's more to say about it, 

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but this is what we're 
prayerfully going to explore. 

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Let's come to this understanding
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You heard me say that it is 
available to all men, enjoy and 

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know what this is. 
The unbeliever has been granted 

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a conscience just as much as the
person who believes, why is 

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that? 
Because of this understand 

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conscience. 
Is an expression of common Grace

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given by. 
Good God. it is an expression of

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common Grace given by good God 
in our sin fractured sin, 

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polluted sin soaked World God in
his love, Has ordained and 

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instituted certain restraints in
our world. 

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In order to limit the corrupting
influences of evil, and if you 

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thought evil, is just something 
that comes from the sky, you're 

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wrong. 
Jesus comes from their heart. 

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This is where the sewage of all 
sin comes from. 

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But God, in knowing the 
potential Devastation that can 

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occur. 
When sin is Unleashed without 

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restraint has raised up certain 
things to mitigate and to 

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deflect and to curb the 
potential destruction that can 

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come, if man is let loose. 
Most of those things are 

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external. 
Most of those restraints that 

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you and I are familiar with our 
outside of us, including our 

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judicial system. 
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So when you hear defund, the 
police that's scary, that's not 

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biblical. 
That's actually satanic because 

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those are one of the constraints
in our world, the sword. 

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To limit evil from having full 
rain. 

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So these restraints have been 
given by God, you know, why to 

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make life livable and more than 
just livable enjoyable? 

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What God would just give that 
kind of grace, even to the 

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Heathen. 
Yes, that's what Jesus said. 

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That the sun rises on both the 
good and the evil that rain 

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comes to both the just and the 
unjust that he through seasons 

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and family and laughter and all 
these different things that 

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originated with him, that, that 
kindness of God would Lead 

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people to repentance and in his 
kindness, he is raised up 

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certain restraints. 
Most of them are external, one 

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of them is internal, can you 
guess what it is? 

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Conscience. 
It's the one in you. 

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It's the one that you're born 
with. 

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It's individualistic. 
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universal. 
And the conscience is meant to 

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hold back. 
Sinners From going further into 

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their depravity and causing more
harm to themselves. 

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And to others, there is an 
aspect of guilt which comes from

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your conscience, by the way, 
that is tormenting Is it not how

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many counseling sessions are 
booked because of one main 

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reason among many reasons but 
one of the main reasons you can 

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you can liberate many 
counselors. 

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If you just deal with people's 
remorse and regret. 

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Most of what people are sitting 
down and pouring their hearts 

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about is something that they are
feeling. 

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That is keeping them up at 
night, something that they have 

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done or something that's been 
done to them or a false guilt. 

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True. 
Guilt. 

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People are tormented by this, 
there's an afflicting power 

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behind a broken conscience. 
And God did that by Design. 

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Guilt to an extent is a good 
thing. 

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If it's legitimate guilt. 
It's meant to preserve some kind

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of functionality in our world. 
Some kind of flow of normalcy if

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people don't have guilt anymore.
If people don't feel shame for 

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what they do, then you will just
wreak havoc and that is 

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precisely why we're seeing what 
we're seeing in our day. 

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Today there is an all-out attack
and assault on the restraints 

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that God has placed in our 
world. 

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Old and not just the external 
ones, not just the government. 

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Not just family, not just the 
church, no, even the conscience.

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And it is massed in different 
ways. 

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There is an effort for people to
be released from legitimate. 

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Guilt through the idea that you 
need to have self-esteem. 

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And don't be embarrassed about 
those things. 

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You should have, in fact, 
praised those things about 

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yourself and walk with your head
up when God actually designed 

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for you to be ashamed of those 
things and embarrassed about 

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those things. 
So now we're promoting people 

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coming out of the closet, right?
I one time that sin was was, was

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a shameful thing and people hit.
And people did it in the dark 

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and it was secretive. 
Now, it's public. 

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It's paraded now we're telling 
people be, you be who you are, 

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be who you feel? 
You are what is happening there,

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it's an attack on the 
conscience. 

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Because the conscience as much 
as it is authored by God is Not 

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static. 
What do I mean by that? 

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Just because it's divinely. 
Designed does not mean that it 

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00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,600
is impervious to being 
conditioned. 

456
00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:54,200
It can be altered, it can be 
tarnished, it can actually be 

457
00:30:54,200 --> 00:31:00,700
smashed all together. 
And so this very thing that is 

458
00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:02,600
meant to bring order to our 
world. 

459
00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:08,000
Is actually being assaulted as I
speak and will only continue to 

460
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,600
be assaulted and less God comes 
and intervenes with his Mercy. 

461
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:15,000
How is it possible for the 
conscience to be altered in this

462
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,700
way to ways to very simple ways?
The first way is to ignore it, 

463
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:22,700
the second way is to misinform 
it. 

464
00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:26,700
The first way is to ignore it, 
the second way is to misinform 

465
00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:27,800
it. 
Let me show you both of those 

466
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,400
things. 
In the Bible come to First 

467
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:37,500
Timothy chapter 1 with me. 
First Timothy 1, let's go to 

468
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:53,400
verse 18. 
First, Timothy 118 reads this 

469
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,700
charge. 
I entrust you Timothy, my child 

470
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,100
in accordance with the 
prophecies previously made about

471
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:03,500
you that buy them. 
You may wage the good Warfare. 

472
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,400
Now, look at this. 
In verse 19, holding faith, and 

473
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:13,500
what a good conscience, a 
healthy conscience by rejecting.

474
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,200
This, not just a good faith 
right now, just holding to the 

475
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,400
faith, but by rejecting even a 
good conscience. 

476
00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:24,200
Some have made shipwreck of 
their faith. 

477
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:29,200
There is something about 
rejecting, a good conscience 

478
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,100
that leads to accidents. 
Do you know what the word? 

479
00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:38,300
Reject means the word. 
Reject actually means to thrust 

480
00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:42,400
away. 
It means to push away means to 

481
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:48,700
repel. 
It's possible for you and I to 

482
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:53,700
ignore that voice of reason. 
It's possible to suppress it as 

483
00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:57,100
loud as it is. 
It cannot overpower you. 

484
00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,600
It cannot dictate things for 
you. 

485
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,500
Can't control you. 
It can only guide you. 

486
00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:06,300
And like a snooze button on your
alarm. 

487
00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:10,800
You can shut it off and you can 
keep shutting it off and like 

488
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,100
the sweet little voice that 
tells you to turn around when 

489
00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:15,900
you took a wrong turn from your 
iPhone. 

490
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,400
You can ignore it and keep 
heading in a different 

491
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,900
direction. 
Paul says, there are some who 

492
00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:27,400
have pushed away, what they knew
their conscience was telling him

493
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,200
not to do. 
And they rejected it over and 

494
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:40,600
over again until they crashed. 
Until they collided with some 

495
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,400
kind of moral failure or 
doctrinal error that would lead 

496
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,000
to Greater problems. 
So that conscience of yours and 

497
00:33:48,008 --> 00:33:51,500
mine, it can be rejected and 
here's the scary part. 

498
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:56,400
Your GPS might continue to warn 
you even though you ignore from 

499
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,900
time to time, turn left turn 
right U-turn, U-turn U-turn and 

500
00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:02,400
just ignore you, you blast the 
music louder. 

501
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,200
But what happens with the 
conscience is that the more we 

502
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,400
persevere in our resistance 
against it, the more quiet it 

503
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,100
gets The more quiet it can get 
it. 

504
00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:18,800
What once bothered you, what 
was, what once was Unthinkable? 

505
00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:21,400
What was once something that you
told yourself? 

506
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,600
I would never do. 
That is something that you are 

507
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,400
able to engage in without any 
prick of heart. 

508
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:35,400
Without any cut, without any 
nudge, your just mindlessly. 

509
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,900
Now, enjoying something that at 
one point would make you throw 

510
00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:42,600
up. 
Or to make you break out in 

511
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:49,300
sweats or make you blush. 
And that's what we see in first,

512
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:51,800
Timothy, not one but in chapter 
4, look at it. 

513
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,800
Just flip a couple chapters over
and see what Paul says the same 

514
00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,000
people. 
And verse 1 of chapter 4. 

515
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,900
Now the spirit expressly says 
that in later times some will 

516
00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:06,600
depart from the Faith by 
devoting themselves to 

517
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,200
deceitful, spirits and teachings
of demons through the inserts, 

518
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,600
arity of liars, whose 
consciences are seared. 

519
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,500
Whose consciences? 
Now the conscious is not just 

520
00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:21,400
being rejected, not just being 
pushed away, not just being 

521
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,200
repelled. 
There is now no more response, 

522
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:30,900
it has become unresponsive and 
just like scar tissue that comes

523
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,900
from a burn that loses its 
feeling what can happen to your 

524
00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:38,800
conscience. 
Is that now, it doesn't sense 

525
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,100
anything. 
That moral compass has been 

526
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:46,300
broken. 
It doesn't tell you anything 

527
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:49,900
anymore, Paul saying this in the
context of false teachers who 

528
00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:53,100
are able to hypocritically 
deceive people and lie to them 

529
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:58,500
and they can do so without their
conscience being disturbed, they

530
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,100
can lead the masses of strict. 
Have you ever you look at some 

531
00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,000
of these false teachers and you 
wonder how can they bleed people

532
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
from their money? 
How can they just look at out 

533
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,800
into the camera? 
Blatantly lie. 

534
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,400
How can after being exposed over
and over by news? 

535
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,700
Media is in different ministers,
how can they just Keep moving 

536
00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:17,400
forward. 
I'll tell you how their 

537
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,500
consciences are seared. 
They don't feel anything. 

538
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,200
They don't sense anything. 
There's no, there's no 

539
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,900
agitation, there's no 
restlessness. 

540
00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:32,600
There's they can go to sleep 
soundly even though they are 

541
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:38,100
devouring people, And Paul says 
it's possible to arrive at such 

542
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,300
a place. 
All you got to do is to keep 

543
00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:43,600
ignoring it, all you have to do 
is keep rejecting it all you 

544
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,900
have to do is keep silencing it.
All you have to do His turn away

545
00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:51,700
from it until it becomes totally
obsolete. 

546
00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:56,800
And have no value to you, just 
like a shriveled-up body part 

547
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,700
that has no more sensation. 
Now, that might not be appealing

548
00:37:00,700 --> 00:37:02,800
to some people. 
You have some people who want to

549
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,900
maintain some kind of 
understanding of right and 

550
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:08,600
wrong. 
And so if Satan can get you to 

551
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,000
ignore your conscience, If he, 
if he can't convince you to just

552
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:16,900
Silence it all together then he 
will find a way to miss 

553
00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:21,000
informant. 
To misinform your conscience, 

554
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:26,800
the conscience response to a 
moral code, the law written on 

555
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,000
our hearts, that's what our 
conscience appeals to and if 

556
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,200
you're in crisis, we're going to
find out there is a now, a 

557
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,400
heightened awareness of God's 
law that your conscience 

558
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,100
response to. 
But generally, there's a basic 

559
00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,100
code that the conscious says, 
hey, you know, that you broke 

560
00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,300
that right? 
Hey, you know, you're guilty, 

561
00:37:44,300 --> 00:37:45,500
right? 
Hey, you know, you shouldn't be 

562
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,800
doing this, right? 
And so here's what the enemy 

563
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:55,200
does knowing the, the wiring of 
the conscience, he will bring 

564
00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,100
and construct before people. 
A different value system for 

565
00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:04,800
your conscience to respond to 
And Titus 1 tells us you don't 

566
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,900
have to turn there but itís one 
tells us how that happens. 

567
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,500
He speaks about there in verse 
15 and verse 16 of the defiling 

568
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:15,700
of the mind and conscience, 
those two go together. 

569
00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:20,700
Meaning if your mind is 
constantly defiled polluted, 

570
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:25,000
falsely informed, and eventually
your conscience will be as well.

571
00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:28,000
And this is the scary thing 
about your conscience, being 

572
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,400
misinformed, it gives you a 
sense of right and wrong. 

573
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:33,100
But now here's what's happened, 
your call? 

574
00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:35,800
And good evil and you're calling
evil. 

575
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,600
Good. 
Isaiah told us about woe to 

576
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,900
those who call good, evil and 
evil. 

577
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:41,800
Good. 
And that's all you have people 

578
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,200
out in the world who are 
passionate about what they are 

579
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,900
advocating even though according
to God's objective law, what 

580
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,700
they're advocating is, blatantly
wrong, but they feel like it's 

581
00:38:51,700 --> 00:38:55,700
right, why, why are they willing
to protest? 

582
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:58,100
Why are they willing to debate? 
Why are they willing to come 

583
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:01,900
against others who have a 
different moral code, because 

584
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,200
they feel like they're right, 
And they feel like the right, 

585
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,300
even though they're wrong, 
because they have fed their 

586
00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:12,100
conscience wrongly. 
They've absorbed that which is, 

587
00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:15,800
in fact, deceptive. 
Here's the thing about the 

588
00:39:15,808 --> 00:39:18,200
conscience. 
As I said earlier, it's not 

589
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,900
infallible. 
It's a guide but it's not your 

590
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:25,900
ultimate guide. 
It can help you but it is not. 

591
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:30,700
Shielded from being distorted, 
it's infallible. 

592
00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:34,200
And, and it is something that 
can be actually tampered with. 

593
00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:36,400
And here's what you can do with 
your conscience, just like any 

594
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,400
muscle of your body, you can 
strengthen it. 

595
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,300
You can weaken it. 
You can even confuse it. 

596
00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:46,900
And that's what Paul is speaking
about here. 

597
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,400
If we don't take our conscience 
and harmonize it with the word 

598
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:55,800
of God, And clarify it and bring
illumination to it. 

599
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,400
Through the truth of God's word.
It becomes less reliable. 

600
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,800
And not only does it become less
reliable becomes more vulnerable

601
00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:08,500
to being influenced by, either 
your flesh, or by our culture. 

602
00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:13,000
Some people wonder, how do I 
know if I can rely on my 

603
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,700
conscience and one of the best 
answers you can give to that is.

604
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,800
Well how dependent is it on the 
truth of God's word? 

605
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:27,700
And so the conscience works and 
operates in society and that's 

606
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:32,000
why ladies and gentlemen, what 
we are witnessing before us, the

607
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,200
breakdown of Common Sense is a 
satanic assault. 

608
00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,700
On one of God's restraints 
towards man, so he doesn't just 

609
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,500
want to attack the gospel. 
The gospel is foundational. 

610
00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:45,300
It is what saves he wants to 
just Krupp everything that God 

611
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,700
has made everything that is 
good, everything that helps 

612
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:52,000
everything that points to him. 
He just wants to completely 

613
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,200
erase. 
Sit, this is the great hatred 

614
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,100
that the evil one has for our 
God and for you has been created

615
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:00,400
in the image every fingerprint 
of God. 

616
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,200
In this world. 
He wants to erase and one of 

617
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,900
those things is your conscience.
The conscious in society, but 

618
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:12,500
the conscious also works in 
Salvation. 

619
00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:16,500
God designed this device, not 
only to constrain Sinners, but 

620
00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:20,400
to save Sinners to save Sinners,
right. 

621
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,400
And he generally does this by 
Awakening that system that 

622
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,200
device in you through a 
revelation of the Holiness of 

623
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,000
God. 
An understanding of the nature 

624
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,300
of God is meant to disturb the 
self-righteous and the one who 

625
00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:42,100
is boldly and unashamedly evil 
to help them realize all the 

626
00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:43,900
same thing. 
We all fall short of the glory 

627
00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:46,700
of God, we all fall short of the
glory of God. 

628
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,100
But in order for that 
disturbance to even occur, there

629
00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:53,400
must be a faithful 
representation of God's person 

630
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,300
and his principles you have to 
do that. 

631
00:41:56,700 --> 00:42:00,300
Look at the book of Acts and see
how these Apostles and disciples

632
00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:04,400
preached a lot of their 
Evangelistic messages were 

633
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:08,100
heavily Reliant upon the 
revelation of God being judge. 

634
00:42:09,100 --> 00:42:13,400
Judge. 
Judge judgment is coming. 

635
00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:17,800
God is Holy at one point, he has
overlooked the sins of all men, 

636
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,600
but now he calls all men to 
repent. 

637
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,800
You see that kind of message 
being delivered, not to church 

638
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:27,900
people, but to worldly people. 
The Lost silence is the mouths 

639
00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:30,300
of those. 
Who would try to think that they

640
00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:32,700
are righteous, right? 
And so you have all these 

641
00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:35,900
indications pointing to this 
reality that if people would 

642
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:40,100
even begin to see their need of 
the Gospel, they needed first. 

643
00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:46,700
Be confronted by their guilt. 
I argue that. 

644
00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:51,500
The beginnings of somebody even 
being open to the gospel begins 

645
00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:53,700
with the confrontation with the 
conscience. 

646
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,700
Here's where you are now before.
The eyes of God. 

647
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:06,500
And that is supposed to invoke 
and provoke a sense of guilt. 

648
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:13,200
A sense of concern like Herod a 
sense of even holy panic. 

649
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,800
I'm in trouble here. 
Where do I flee? 

650
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,100
Where do I go? 
Is this really true? 

651
00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:22,900
And if it is true that I need, I
need saving. 

652
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:27,600
Do you see how that goes? 
And here's the problem. 

653
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,500
I wonder if in our day, the 
reason why we're not seeing as 

654
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:34,700
many people saved, like we would
want to seize because we have 

655
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:37,700
eliminated this idea of 
confronting the conscience. 

656
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,800
People are comfortable, like 
people come in and out to 

657
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,800
services and and they hear 
preachers traveling to different

658
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,800
places. 
How much of those interactions 

659
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,800
of Truth is pointing at 
somebody's kajin saying you're 

660
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,300
in trouble? 
There's a holy God, you're a 

661
00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:57,900
sinner. 
I'm a sinner too. 

662
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,900
I'm forgiven, but I'm trying to 
tell you and help you to be 

663
00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:03,100
forgiven as well. 
How much of that is occurring 

664
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,200
and people come in and out in at
why? 

665
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:09,300
Because impart? 
Their conscience is not being 

666
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,800
Touched. 
And so, you know, if you've come

667
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,900
here regularly, you realize that
the preaching here is strong and

668
00:44:17,900 --> 00:44:21,800
there's a reason for that is the
reason for that because we have 

669
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,900
pent up anger. 
We're letting it out here. 

670
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:26,200
Okay. 
That's not the reason. 

671
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,500
The reason is because we see 
this idea of a lawgiver and a 

672
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:31,900
law. 
And we are sinners, we are 

673
00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:33,300
broken. 
We're in trouble. 

674
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,500
So we need a savior, right? 
And that's where it begins. 

675
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,500
What happened with the first 
Christian sermon after Peter 

676
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,900
preached, what a gracious, God, 
the one who denied you three 

677
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:47,700
times as the one who gets to 
preach the first Christian. 

678
00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:50,900
Sermon, he preaches. 
And what happens to the audience

679
00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:54,000
are the thousands that were 
listening to these men and 

680
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,100
women-- glorifying God in 
different tongues Peter 

681
00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:59,100
preaches. 
And when he preaches, it says 

682
00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:02,400
that when they heard this, they 
were cut to the Heart, The 

683
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,900
Cutting of the heart, must have 
been before the cleansing of the

684
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,800
Art. and when this cut occurs, 
when you begin to bleed in your 

685
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:15,400
soul a little bit, Birth in that
is an appeal. 

686
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,500
An appeal and the appeal here is
what I want you to see in First 

687
00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:24,200
Peter 3:21 come with me, come 
come, come. 

688
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:31,600
Come with me to 1st, Peter 3:21.
1st, Peter 3:21. 

689
00:45:40,300 --> 00:45:43,100
Peter says baptism, which 
corresponds to this? 

690
00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:47,200
Now saves, you is baptism. 
Save you, Peter says, baptism. 

691
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,500
Saves you really, which 
corresponds to this baptism? 

692
00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:54,800
Now saves you not as a removal 
of dirt from the body. 

693
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,600
Okay. 
Thank you for the clarification.

694
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,600
Peter baptism which corresponds 
to this. 

695
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,100
Now saves you not as a removal 
of dirt from the body but as an 

696
00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:10,400
appeal to God, for a good 
conscience, Through the 

697
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:15,400
resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
There is no Redemptive value in 

698
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,500
the body of water. 
That you step into there is 

699
00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:21,900
nothing of that physical 
material that brings about any 

700
00:46:21,900 --> 00:46:24,200
kind of Salvation or 
sanctification. 

701
00:46:25,100 --> 00:46:27,600
What Peter Singer was when you 
collect his thoughts. 

702
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,200
Is that as, you know, baptism, 
is this external tangible pledge

703
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,000
that you make of something that 
has occurred internally. 

704
00:46:35,100 --> 00:46:38,100
And what baptism really is 
according to this verse is an 

705
00:46:38,100 --> 00:46:45,500
appeal It's an appeal to God. 
An appeal that was first birth 

706
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,800
inside but now you're making it 
public first before him. 

707
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,400
And before man, I want to be 
washed. 

708
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:58,300
I want to be cleansed I want the
old Daniel to go in that body 

709
00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:03,000
water and die and I want the new
Daniel in Christ to come up in 

710
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,200
Resurrection Life that is what 
is speaking about here. 

711
00:47:06,300 --> 00:47:09,900
There is an appeal in baptism 
and that appeal was first born 

712
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,400
when you were cut in your heart.
No wonder Peter after he 

713
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,000
preaches to them says repent and
be baptized. 

714
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:18,800
You really want to be cleanse. 
You really want to be saved, 

715
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:24,300
prove it. 
Show that your faith is genuine 

716
00:47:24,300 --> 00:47:26,800
and true. 
And that's why I get a little 

717
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,700
nervous from people who hesitate
to get baptized. 

718
00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:32,700
It's very telling sign of the 
condition of their conscience. 

719
00:47:34,300 --> 00:47:38,400
it reveals some things, and one 
of those things is that it puts 

720
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,500
into question, whether they 
truly understand the demand of 

721
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:45,300
the Gospel, And what Jesus is 
Worthy of. 

722
00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:48,800
But hopefully when you see 
people get into that tank, what 

723
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,800
you're witnessing is, people 
appealing for a good conscience.

724
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,700
Oh, cleanse me, wash me. 
Make me new not that that act 

725
00:47:55,700 --> 00:47:58,600
does it, but it's just an 
expression of something that is 

726
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:02,000
birthed in the heart. 
It's birth in the heart in 

727
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,000
Hebrews says in so many 
different ways, how that 

728
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,900
sacrifice of Jesus sprinkles, 
are conscious clean. 

729
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:13,900
There's a cleansing that takes 
place and there is this relief 

730
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:17,500
that is born. 
And unlike Herod you are no 

731
00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:21,000
longer troubled by what you've 
done in the past, you're no 

732
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,400
longer thinking and it's no 
longer in the lingering it 

733
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,400
behind you. 
What? 

734
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,100
And ready to LEAP on you and any
suspicious thing happens. 

735
00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:33,900
No, when you put your faith in 
Christ, you're conscious no 

736
00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:37,600
longer reminds you of that, 
which Christ has pardoned, it's 

737
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,700
put to rest, it's buried. 
And yes, Satan would try to try 

738
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:46,000
to unbury it and bring it back 
to you again but upward you 

739
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,100
look. 
They're right and see him there.

740
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,000
You look and see him there. 
The one who's paid for your sins

741
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:53,200
to one has redeemed you from 
your sins. 

742
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,000
And one is rescue you from your 
sins and you remind yourself and

743
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,800
you strengthen your faith. 
In the love of God, I'm free. 

744
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,300
I'm free. 
And your conscience is now being

745
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,000
wired over and over again, 
condition, you are free. 

746
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,000
You are free. 
You are free and that gets 

747
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,500
louder and Satan voices. 
It's muted more, and more, and 

748
00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:15,000
more. 
The Cutting of the heart must 

749
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,000
occur before the cleansing of 
the heart. 

750
00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:20,800
And one of the immediate Gifts 
of Salvation is that there is 

751
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:27,900
this resounding relief to your 
conscience. the conscious and 

752
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:32,000
Society, the conscience and 
salvation the assistance of 

753
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,800
conscience and sanctification, 
after being a child of God, what

754
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,900
happens to your conscience What 
occurs when your evil conscience

755
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:44,300
is now made new and you're born 
again. 

756
00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:47,100
So you think differently? 
See, things differently is there

757
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,100
is there a cease of activity in 
your conscience? 

758
00:49:50,100 --> 00:49:52,600
Do you never know a 
restlessness? 

759
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,700
Are you forever at ease? 
Because of what Christ has done?

760
00:49:55,700 --> 00:49:59,300
Yes, or no? 
You should never for a moment, 

761
00:49:59,300 --> 00:50:01,800
doubt your position, and God 
because of Christ. 

762
00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:06,000
If your conscience, says 
anything to you, contrary to the

763
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,100
promises of God, in Jesus, your 
conscience needs some work to be

764
00:50:09,100 --> 00:50:12,100
done on and that's okay. 
God is patient with us maturing 

765
00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:14,800
in the love of God. 
As first John, thousands people 

766
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:19,500
who still feel condemnation. 
What that shows again is that 

767
00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:22,900
their conscience is not up to 
par with the truth and they need

768
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:25,600
to be trained. 
They need to be trained. 

769
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,800
And so there should never ever 
be a moment where the 

770
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,800
interruption of your piece 
occurs because of what Christ 

771
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,400
has done at the same time 
because of the spirit of God 

772
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,600
living inside of us, there's 
something that happens to her 

773
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,400
conscience. 
That was not even known before 

774
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,100
you came to Christ as real as it
was before you came to Christ. 

775
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,300
And it is this you are now 
alerted and aware of a higher 

776
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,300
law. 
It's no longer just the basic 

777
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:56,200
law of God, that has been 
instilled in every heart now. 

778
00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:00,200
You see the law of Christ. 
Now, I understand the depth of 

779
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,600
the great call of discipleship, 
and your conscious now is made 

780
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,300
aware of something, glorious, 
something, beautiful, and 

781
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:10,100
sometimes even terrifying apart 
from God's help. 

782
00:51:11,700 --> 00:51:14,100
What is this? 
That's what happens. 

783
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:16,500
Right? 
And now the law of God is 

784
00:51:16,500 --> 00:51:18,200
written on your heart. 
What I thought it was written 

785
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,100
before. 
Yeah, it was written before but 

786
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:22,600
it's written in a new way. 
Now now you have the desire to 

787
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:25,300
obey it. 
Now you have the power to obey 

788
00:51:25,300 --> 00:51:26,500
it. 
Now you have a deeper 

789
00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:31,400
understanding of it. 
And you live differently and you

790
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,200
pursue that life there's an 
understanding now with the 

791
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,700
conscience that brings about a 
new sense of responsibility and 

792
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:41,900
that responsibility is for you 
to maintain as Paul said, so 

793
00:51:41,900 --> 00:51:46,200
many times a good conscience and
here are a few reasons, why let 

794
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,900
me tell you why you're conscious
as a Christian is absolutely 

795
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:54,800
important for you. 
To train and to obey. 

796
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,400
Again time is not my friend now,
so I'll give you just a couple 

797
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,700
to think about. 
If you're there in First Peter, 

798
00:52:02,700 --> 00:52:05,500
you're in a good place because 
you arrive there sooner than the

799
00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:06,900
others. 
I want you to see something in 

800
00:52:06,908 --> 00:52:10,200
First Peter 3 verse 15, notice 
this with me. 

801
00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:15,000
This is her Christians. 
Now, this is not just for 

802
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,900
society, as a whole, it's not 
just a common Grace expression. 

803
00:52:18,100 --> 00:52:20,800
This is not even for for thus, 
for those who need to come to 

804
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,700
Christ and either conscious to 
be smitten, this is for the 

805
00:52:24,700 --> 00:52:27,600
believer. 
And what we are told here by 

806
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,600
Peter, something, instrumental 
about the use of a good 

807
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,400
conscience. 
First, Peter 515, you know this,

808
00:52:34,100 --> 00:52:39,900
we read but in your hearts honor
Christ, the lord, as holy always

809
00:52:39,900 --> 00:52:43,400
being prepared to make a defense
to anyone, Who asks you for a 

810
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:45,700
reason? 
For the hope that is in you yet 

811
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:49,200
do it with gentleness and 
respect having a good 

812
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,900
conscience. 
So that when you are slandered, 

813
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,100
those who revile your good 
behavior in Christ may be put to

814
00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:03,000
shame. 
Having a good conscience, is 

815
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,600
absolutely necessary for your 
testimony. 

816
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,100
For the boldness of your 
witness, notice, before he says 

817
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,200
that you be ready to make a 
defense to anyone asks you for a

818
00:53:15,207 --> 00:53:17,000
reason. 
For the hope that is in you and 

819
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,400
he follows that with you, but 
you need a good conscience. 

820
00:53:20,900 --> 00:53:24,400
You need a good conscience. 
And then he goes on to talk 

821
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,900
about how there are people who 
are ready to slander, you a 

822
00:53:26,900 --> 00:53:29,000
revile, your good behavior, 
right? 

823
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,100
The world is looking for 
ammunition to dismiss. 

824
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:36,500
The hope that is in us. 
They're constantly looking for 

825
00:53:36,500 --> 00:53:41,900
contradictions or hypocrisy to 
give them a reason to ignore 

826
00:53:41,900 --> 00:53:45,400
what you have to say. 
And what Peter is a pleading for

827
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,400
is listen to the best of your 
ability. 

828
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,900
And by God's help ensure that 
your conscience is clear for the

829
00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:55,700
sake of your Witness. 
A clear conscience makes a bold 

830
00:53:55,700 --> 00:53:59,700
witness. 
Fearless courageous. 

831
00:54:01,500 --> 00:54:05,000
Not wondering, who knows what? 
Not scared. 

832
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,000
If somebody will bring something
up, no, no. 

833
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,800
A person who has a clear 
conscience, can give a clear 

834
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,300
gospel and not just the clear 
gospel and the sense that you 

835
00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,900
can preach it of it, you're a 
hypocrite but a gospel that has 

836
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:21,900
Authority with it. 
Has a strength to it. 

837
00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:25,300
That has a persuasion to it. 
That is winsome. 

838
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,500
The only way that can happen is 
if You have nothing to be 

839
00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:34,200
embarrassed about privately or 
you're not something and a 

840
00:54:34,207 --> 00:54:36,500
different sphere of of your 
life. 

841
00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:41,400
For the sake of your testimony 
pursue a good conscience and 

842
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,600
stay there because you don't 
know when somebody will ask you 

843
00:54:44,607 --> 00:54:47,100
about the hope that is in you. 
And when that time does come, 

844
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,500
you will be ready to deliver as 
a clear vessel. 

845
00:54:51,900 --> 00:54:56,100
Not giving muddy water. 
And in fact, those who would try

846
00:54:56,100 --> 00:54:58,900
to put you to shame, when, in 
realizing that you are men who 

847
00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:01,700
walks in, good conscience, a 
woman who walks and integrity 

848
00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:05,800
they would be put to shame. 
They would be silenced. 

849
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,400
So for your testimony, for your 
testimony. 

850
00:55:10,100 --> 00:55:13,900
But there's another one that I 
think is so valuable and I love 

851
00:55:13,900 --> 00:55:17,400
it and I praise God, that it's 
in the Bible, not just for the 

852
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,100
sake, your testimony for the 
sake of your peace. for the sake

853
00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:26,200
of your piece, serve God, long 
enough, And the more public your

854
00:55:26,207 --> 00:55:28,800
ministry is the more you'll be 
exposed to these kind of 

855
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:32,800
attacks, any servant of God, who
serves God, long enough and is 

856
00:55:32,808 --> 00:55:34,700
doing something effective for 
the kingdom of God, will be 

857
00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:38,100
subject to slander will be 
subject to false accusations 

858
00:55:38,100 --> 00:55:39,900
will be subject to smear 
campaigns. 

859
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:42,700
It happened to Jesus. 
It happened to the disciples at 

860
00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:45,700
happened to the prophets. 
It happened to a man named Paul 

861
00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:48,100
in fact that that was what Paul 
had deal with throughout his 

862
00:55:48,100 --> 00:55:52,600
whole Ministry, this man was had
to answer letters of people who 

863
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,600
were saying that he was a 
Ministry for this reason for 

864
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:55,900
that. 
And you have to defend 

865
00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:58,900
themselves and make a case this 
man on top of that was standing 

866
00:55:58,900 --> 00:56:02,000
in trials, and before tribunals 
and he had to deal with these 

867
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:05,200
different accusations of what he
was saying, all these things he 

868
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,100
was constantly in the headlines 
of getting in trouble or being 

869
00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:14,600
questionable. 
That can be very overwhelming 

870
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:20,000
for anybody that can be 
destructive and so many cases. 

871
00:56:20,700 --> 00:56:25,000
But you see Paul though a thorn 
in his flesh, was able to pull 

872
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,700
through and not just pull 
through but be fruitful in the 

873
00:56:27,700 --> 00:56:30,000
midst of all of that. 
And you wonder how, what was 

874
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,300
Paul secret? 
What was his comfort? 

875
00:56:32,300 --> 00:56:35,200
What made his pillow soft at 
night? 

876
00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:40,300
And some might say, because the 
gospel. 

877
00:56:40,300 --> 00:56:41,800
Amen. 
I know the gospel is the answer 

878
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,900
for many things, right? 
Because the gospel. 

879
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:45,400
Yes, the gospel, amen. 
Amen. 

880
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:49,300
Amen. 
Because he had a certain 

881
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:51,300
personality at leadership style 
that made him strong. 

882
00:56:51,300 --> 00:56:54,400
So he had alligator skin, no, 
actually read the scripture and 

883
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,300
you see that he was, he was 
wounded in many ways including 

884
00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:00,200
emotionally mentally. 
Do you know what? 

885
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:04,300
Paul's secret was to endure? 
The satanic assault on his 

886
00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:06,800
character on his reputation on 
his ministry. 

887
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:12,500
A good conscience. 
A good conscience. 

888
00:57:14,300 --> 00:57:17,200
Notice how many times Paul says 
throughout the scriptures? 

889
00:57:18,300 --> 00:57:21,600
That he has a good conscience. 
Let me read you a couple verses 

890
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:26,500
in Acts 20 31. 
He says here and looking 

891
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:28,700
intently at the council here. 
He is standing before the 

892
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:32,300
Sanhedrin on a on a trial based 
on false reports. 

893
00:57:32,700 --> 00:57:42,100
Paul said, Brothers I've lived 
my life before God in all good 

894
00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:49,100
conscience up to this day. 
I've lived my life before God 

895
00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:53,300
and all good conscience up to 
this day, acts 24 verse 16. 

896
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:00,900
So I always take pains to have a
clear conscience toward both God

897
00:58:01,100 --> 00:58:05,100
and man. 
And I could take the next five 

898
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:07,200
minutes to show you different 
verses where he says in his 

899
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:08,900
Epistles. 
I thank God with a clear 

900
00:58:08,900 --> 00:58:11,100
conscience with a clear 
conscience with a clear 

901
00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:14,700
conscience. 
Do you know why Paul can whether

902
00:58:14,700 --> 00:58:20,300
those storms because of that, 
Because he took pains to ensure 

903
00:58:20,700 --> 00:58:25,300
that his conduct his life secret
public with finances with the 

904
00:58:25,300 --> 00:58:28,000
opposite sex with how he did 
business. 

905
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,800
He was a tent maker with all 
these different things. 

906
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,700
He ensured, that his conscience 
was always an alignment with the

907
00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:37,300
truth and there was nothing that
he was aware of. 

908
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,700
That would hold him or make him 
guilty. 

909
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,700
And I can't tell you how 
instrumental that is when people

910
00:58:45,700 --> 00:58:50,400
try to Gaslight you or in 
people, try to convince others 

911
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:52,500
about you about things that are 
untrue. 

912
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,900
The greatest thing that can get 
keep you strong. 

913
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:01,600
According to the word of God is 
a clear conscience, I've known 

914
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,500
personal tax over the years, 
I've known them, many of you 

915
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:08,000
have known them as well, and I 
can tell you this, that the best

916
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:12,000
thing, the best thing is to be 
able to reflect and say I've 

917
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,900
done all that. 
I could I've done all that I 

918
00:59:14,908 --> 00:59:18,300
could to do, or to handle the 
situation the way God's word 

919
00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:22,600
tells me too. 
That will put you to sleep. 

920
00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:28,600
That will that will bounce those
arrows off of you. 

921
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,600
When you had before God and 
before, man, you did not ignore 

922
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,500
your conscience, do you did not 
violate your conscience but 

923
00:59:36,500 --> 00:59:40,500
you've upheld it. 
And honored it. 

924
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,500
And you're free. 
You're free. 

925
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:50,500
I'm fully aware that there are 
nuances with the conscience, 

926
00:59:50,500 --> 00:59:53,200
right? 
You go to Romans 14, you go to 

927
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:57,200
First Corinthians 8 and you see 
how Believers feel differently 

928
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,500
about different things. 
And there are all these rules 

929
00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:03,100
about how our separate 
Consciousness, should should be 

930
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:06,100
harmonized together and work 
together, but you want to stay 

931
01:00:06,100 --> 01:00:07,000
for another hour me as other 
you. 

932
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,900
We can do it. 
I just want to give you a basic 

933
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:15,000
understanding and knowledge 
Society of the conscience. 

934
01:00:15,300 --> 01:00:18,000
And here's my question to you to
the to the people who are 

935
01:00:18,008 --> 01:00:21,500
filling this room right now. 
What is your conscience telling 

936
01:00:21,500 --> 01:00:25,300
you today? 
What is your conscience telling 

937
01:00:25,300 --> 01:00:29,200
you today? 
What is your value system that 

938
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:32,200
your conscience is adhering to 
is that the word of God or is it

939
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,300
culture? 
Is it the podcaster that you 

940
01:00:35,300 --> 01:00:36,700
love? 
Is that the philosopher who 

941
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:40,700
doesn't know Christ? 
Where's your value system? 

942
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,900
What is right and wrong to you? 
Is it what this says, or what 

943
01:00:45,900 --> 01:00:48,200
you say, or what your culture 
says, or where your tradition 

944
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:53,700
says, or what your the rapper 
says who Yeah, you might have a 

945
01:00:53,700 --> 01:00:56,200
feeling of right and wrong but 
those feelings could be 

946
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:59,500
misleading and deceptive and can
to lead you into danger. 

947
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,100
It will solidify you in 
damnation and all the while you 

948
01:01:04,100 --> 01:01:05,500
thought that you were doing, 
right? 

949
01:01:05,700 --> 01:01:07,600
I hope that scares you enough to
fling. 

950
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:11,200
Open your Bible to say, oh man, 
oh man, what is, what is my 

951
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:12,500
understanding of, right and 
wrong. 

952
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,300
What about you unbeliever? 
What is your conscience? 

953
01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:21,500
Telling you even now as you've 
heard me speak for the past 

954
01:01:21,500 --> 01:01:25,800
hour, Do you know, Christ is 
your conscience clear? 

955
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,100
Before, God, can you confidently
stand before him? 

956
01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:32,200
Can you confidently stand before
him? 

957
01:01:34,700 --> 01:01:38,400
My fiancé and I are going 
through premarital counseling 

958
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:39,200
book. 
And one of the things I 

959
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,400
appreciate about the questions 
was that asked about the 

960
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:44,200
Assurance of Salvation had 
different checkboxes and one of 

961
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:45,700
the checkboxes, will they 
answer? 

962
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:47,600
The question was? 
How assured are you? 

963
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,200
How confident are you that you 
will be in heaven? 

964
01:01:52,700 --> 01:01:55,300
This is most confidently kind of
confident, not really sure. 

965
01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:57,600
Absolutely not sure. 
And you know how good it felt to

966
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,300
be able to without hesitation 
say absolutely confident. 

967
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:05,600
Are you? 
Well, I don't know. 

968
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:09,900
How do you sleep at night, man? 
Who I don't know. 

969
01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:13,700
And you're worried about the 
stocks Oh, I don't know. 

970
01:02:13,900 --> 01:02:15,800
And you're worried about what's 
happening to your car. 

971
01:02:16,100 --> 01:02:18,200
God help you. 
I'm trying to tell you right 

972
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:19,200
now. 
You're in trouble. 

973
01:02:19,900 --> 01:02:22,600
You're in deep trouble. 
You might not like me now. 

974
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:23,800
You might leave. 
You're saying that guy was 

975
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,200
crazy. 
That's fine. 

976
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,600
You're going to stand before God
one day and you're going to 

977
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,300
remember these words. 
You know, what's scary about the

978
01:02:31,308 --> 01:02:32,800
conscience. 
As much as you think, you can 

979
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,400
silence it in this life and 
you're able to, there is a Time 

980
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,600
coming when your conscience will
be as clear as it's ever been 

981
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:42,400
more clear than you can fathom. 
One of the things that will make

982
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,200
health, Also torturous, it's not
just the pain. 

983
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,100
Of physical elements. 
It's the fact that you will be 

984
01:02:51,100 --> 01:02:56,500
fully aware. 
That you are justifiably 

985
01:02:56,500 --> 01:03:02,600
condemned and on top of that you
had opportunity to repent and 

986
01:03:02,600 --> 01:03:05,400
you rejected it. 
I have a feeling that that 

987
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,300
impart will be the reason for a 
weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

988
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:12,500
Your conscious might be dull 
now, but there is coming a day 

989
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:14,400
where you will be resurrected, 
not until life. 

990
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:19,400
But unto death, the second death
and you will be fully informed 

991
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,900
and aware. 
Why don't I do it when I had a 

992
01:03:23,900 --> 01:03:31,300
chance Believer. 
Do you work with your conscience

993
01:03:31,300 --> 01:03:36,400
or do you just cruise through 
life without any kind of 

994
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,800
guidance? 
Do you train your conscience? 

995
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,700
Do you inform your conscious or 
do you just let anything come 

996
01:03:41,700 --> 01:03:43,400
into your mind? 
Here's the thing. 

997
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,900
Whatever, you allowed to come 
into your mind, inevitably will 

998
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:49,800
influence your conscience. 
So what do you feed your mind? 

999
01:03:49,900 --> 01:03:52,000
How familiar are you with the 
standard of God with the 

1000
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,300
promises of God with the 
directions of God? 

1001
01:03:55,700 --> 01:03:57,700
Do you have that concern as Paul
had? 

1002
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:00,700
I take great pains to ensure 
that I have a clear conscience 

1003
01:04:00,700 --> 01:04:05,400
before God and man. 
And at the same time, believer. 

1004
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:12,600
Is your guilt legitimate? 
Because you have believers who 

1005
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,400
are tormented by their 
conscience and it makes no sense

1006
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,000
to why they are actually 
tormented. 

1007
01:04:18,700 --> 01:04:22,200
Do you know, your freedom in 
Christ You know, the Liberty 

1008
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,500
that Jesus purchased for you, do
you major on the minors? 

1009
01:04:25,700 --> 01:04:28,600
Do you make gray areas black and
white. 

1010
01:04:30,500 --> 01:04:33,500
So even believer, as much as you
are called to have a clear 

1011
01:04:33,500 --> 01:04:36,400
conscience, you also need an 
accurate conscience. 

1012
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:41,000
And that's that's part of 
pastoral Ministry to not just 

1013
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,700
people who ignore their 
conscious, but people, whether 

1014
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:48,600
very sensitive conscience that 
just any intrusive thought can 

1015
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:51,100
just bury them and they just 
don't want to do anything for 

1016
01:04:51,100 --> 01:04:52,600
God anymore. 
They want to give up their not 

1017
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:56,900
worthy when it's like, Maybe 
there needs to be some rewiring 

1018
01:04:56,900 --> 01:05:01,600
there with your conscience. 
Let's pray. 

1019
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:16,600
Lord this afternoon. 
We have heard. 

1020
01:05:18,100 --> 01:05:25,700
We've heard your insights. 
On how you have made us. 

1021
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:33,600
We thank you for this gift. 
Called conscience. 

1022
01:05:34,700 --> 01:05:37,500
We thank you that it was used to
bring us to your son. 

1023
01:05:38,700 --> 01:05:41,200
We thank you that. 
It must be continued. 

1024
01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:44,500
Lee respected to be like your 
son. 

1025
01:05:45,700 --> 01:05:48,800
To be loving to our Brethren. 
Have a testimony before the 

1026
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,200
world to know, peace, and to 
enjoy peace. 

1027
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:58,300
When Satan tries to attack us. 
We thank you that in your great 

1028
01:05:58,300 --> 01:06:00,400
love beyond the love of 
Salvation. 

1029
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,900
You have raised up restraints in
our world. 

1030
01:06:04,700 --> 01:06:09,100
To keep evil at Bay, forgive 
America and the rest of the 

1031
01:06:09,100 --> 01:06:14,200
world as they are listening to 
Satan, instead of your word, we 

1032
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,300
pray that you preserve Our 
Generation from self-destruction

1033
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,300
that you would bring about a 
move of the spirit that would 

1034
01:06:20,300 --> 01:06:24,200
reawaken the conscience an 
objective morality. 

1035
01:06:24,900 --> 01:06:28,000
But we asked tonight, rather 
this afternoon, if there is 

1036
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,900
anyone who has a guilty 
conscience and it is legitimate 

1037
01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:34,400
guilt that they would know they 
can have forgiveness in. 

1038
01:06:34,500 --> 01:06:38,500
Jesus Christ that they don't 
have to live with this nying 

1039
01:06:38,500 --> 01:06:42,000
fear like Herod. 
That they've done something 

1040
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,500
wrong and something is out to 
get them. 

1041
01:06:44,500 --> 01:06:48,000
Eventually let them know that 
not only do you remove that 

1042
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:50,000
guilt but you remove the 
punishment. 

1043
01:06:51,500 --> 01:06:54,700
Please Lord, we pray that today 
people would have a washed 

1044
01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:58,600
conscience. 
And what we worship you today 

1045
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,300
with a clear conscience with a 
pure heart? 

1046
01:07:03,500 --> 01:07:04,600
Knowing. 
Oh God. 

1047
01:07:06,100 --> 01:07:09,000
That you are patient with us and
that you are willing to forgive 

1048
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,600
us over and over again. 
Maybe not abuse that freedom, 

1049
01:07:12,700 --> 01:07:16,600
but use it, use it to serve you 
with greater strength and 

1050
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,100
Assurance of your love. 
For us. 

1051
01:07:18,700 --> 01:07:21,800
We give you honor and Glory now 
Lord, in Jesus name, we pray. 

1052
01:07:22,100 --> 01:07:23,900
Amen. 
Let's stand together and 

1053
01:07:23,900 --> 01:07:24,400
worship.