The Inner Voice.

1Ti 1:19  Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck

Conscience-

1. an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

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Rightness or wrongness.

Choosing between the two- right and wrong- we do this as our conscience dictates. How often do we have to hush our conscience, not wanting what we are doing to be a part of the whole right or wrong thing. But it doesn’t work that way. As soon as we try to silence our conscience we are making a choice.

Right or wrong.  When we know right from wrong we are accountable for the wrong we choose to do.

Of course things can happen fast and we may make a wrong choice in the heat of the moment, but if we do then we are accountable to correct the wrong choice if at all possible.

Have you ever had your conscience seared so fiercely you lamented your choice to no end?  Having our conscience seared is awful, but at the same time it's wonderful that our conscience is so alive, so true, so ready to reveal God's truth to us.

When people repent, they are aware in a heartfelt, conscience searing way that they have need to repent. Repent and be forgiven, be forgiven and sin no more.

The inner guide to know right from wrong- our conscience.

We are convicted in our conscience.

We can have a good conscience.   (A conscience that is heeded not ignored)

Our conscience can be void of offence toward God- and men.

Our conscience can bear witness in the Holy Spirit.

Our conscience can be weak. (A conscience that is not heeded, and therefore dulled, weak.)

Our conscience has a testimony.

Everyone has a conscience, and our behavior is seen by that conscience.

The end of the commandment …a good conscience.

Our conscience can be pure.

Our conscience can be seared.

Our conscience can be defiled.

Our conscience can be purged.

Our conscience can be sprinkled (cleaned) from an evil conscience. (Praise GOD!)

We must have a conscience towards God.

Having a good conscience in the face of evil and those who accuse us falsely.

The answer of a good conscience toward God.

Joh_8:9, Act_23:1. Act_24:16, Rom_9:1,  1Co_8:12, 2Co_1:12,  2Co_4:2, 1Ti_1:5,  1Ti_3:9, 1Ti_4:2,  Tit_1:15, Heb_9:14,  Heb_10:22, 1Pe_2:19,  1Pe_3:16, 1Pe_3:21 

The inner voice of our conscience can be defiled, and a defiled conscience is one that no longer works according to God's purpose.  If we are not pricked in our conscience we need to ask ourselves why. We don't want to be among those who are caught up in deception- not knowing right from wrong, and even considering wrong to be right.

Right and wrong.  The lines have become incredibly blurred in our day and age. We call ourselves enlightened when we take wrongs and right them, but what if we are really taking rights and making them wrong? Satan would have us call ourselves enlightened because in doing so we believe we are finding truth and following it. Satan's truth is a far cry from God's truth. We love to imagine we are no longer repressed- calling anything that keeps us from our desired behavior a repression. We say we should be free to do as we please, no matter how corrupt that thing was considered at one time.  In truth, forcing people to repress their true desires is never a good thing. God wants a heart desire towards Him and His truths, not a forced desire. Consider the Victorian Era where so much was introduced to force people to repress their ways. Did that forcing actually make the people true to God, or did it simply send their true desire into the shadows with their hearts still far from God?  You can have the best outward behavior ever and be the bitterest person within- very far from God's love.  Or you can have the worst outward behavior keeping your estrangement from God no secret at all.  Society cannot force God's love on anyone! Society can try to force moral behavior upon people but it won't bring those people to God, not really. Yet now as we live in a world quickly becoming void of morality in so many ways, we cannot give in to any temptation to call evil good. If our stand on a moral high ground is one we make alone, it still must be made.

Moral high ground- the place where a person can live in good conscience with God while society cries out their disapproval. People want to say the moral high ground is a loveless place, that love accepts everything, every sin. Love cannot accept sin, love can forgive sin, but never, ever call sin good. If those seeking moral high ground- a good conscience towards God- are branded as hateful they must realize that those on Satan's side will stop at nothing to hurt God's people.  Love truly can forgive the sin- and sinners- and it's better to seek forgiveness for those persecuting others than to allow them to be goaded into evil in any way. While the majority may call you a hater, you must know they persecuted Jesus in the same way, and His apostles as well.

God help us live in good conscience towards Him, always!

All through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

Now and forever!