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Bible Study: How is Your Conscience?
If I should ask you this question: what brought you to Christ in searching for  forgiveness? Most of you would say my sins were bothering me. I was just not satisfied in the way I was living. I wanted to live a better life. There was this driving force that just kept saying start all over, and you did not know how to really start from new again. All the time you knew it was in you to live a cleaner life. The Christian person that I had a talk with about going to church, somehow I just can not get that out of my mind. He seemed so sure of himself. I wonder why that still hangs on with me. I am OK, yet I am not really satisfied. I have been thinking a lot about a change and I feel this urge stronger than at any other time in my life. My conscience is just not as clear as I would like for it to be. Maybe that is what is bothering me for the last while. I know that my conscience is very sensitive to some things going on that are not right at all. Sometimes I even get a temper about things that I know is wrong. I got a Bible the other day and the word conscience does not show up in the Old Testament, but it shows up in ten books of the New Testament. John 8:9 says: “And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.” Our conscience must be a handy tool from God.
The writer grew up always hearing (let your conscience be your guide). Acts 24:16 says: “And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.” Romans 2:15 says: “Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts were mean while accusing or else excusing one another.” Romans 9:1 says: “I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,”
As you study your bible you will find out that your strength comes through-from your conscience. Was it true when they wrote that the man was mean for so long he had no conscience? When I was a small boy, I saw a man get so mad he walked by cars parked and hit them with his fist and the blood was running from his fist. The Bible points out that there are some that have a weak conscience and easy to be defiled. With that in mind we all should take courage and build up a strong conscience. As Brother Paul says, the Holy Ghost-The Comforter. John 14:16 says: “And I will pray to the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;” He also says no sinner can receive (only for the born again - saved - saints of our Lord). No born again Christian should ever go against his conscience when the judgement you are about to make takes in Judgment of  right and wrong. Then you have no soul weary at all with the Lord.

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