Dead Works

[aiki]

So, then, what is the purpose of this conscience-voice hassling me because l "did it again"?

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

 

[laboringbro]

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

Thanks.

 

[laboringbro]

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

Thanks.

 

[laboringbro]

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

Thanks.

 

[laboringbro]

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

Thanks.

 

[laboringbro]

It isn't that your conscience serves no purpose at all, only that, as I said, it may be misled or corrupted and so it is not the best, most certain way, of discerning right from wrong. Knowing this, God has given us both His Spirit and His word to guide us morally. But your conscience does communicate the "law of God written on the heart." The human conscience gives us all a basic sense of moral right and wrong, though that sense may be dulled, warped or ignored (and often is).

What is going on? what am l doing wrong? l'm just following prompts and it keeps duplicating your message!

 

[laboringbro]

We must only fight the accuser/satan in our guilty conscience with The truths of the word and under the umbrella of God's gracious love. The blood of Christ can deliver us from a guilty conscience. Where we repent of the wrong we have committed and place ourselves under the rule of His loving truth.

Each time when we have (new) life in sin our guilty conscious accuses us. A guilty conscience is activated when we transgress God's love or when transgress social or religious laws, morals or regulations. Therefore we ought to put no faith in our conscience for it is easily corrupted.



The bible teaches about life where our conscience is crystal clear. Jesus can set us free from a guilty conscience. His blood paid for all sin so we are covered in Him and by Him when we place our lives in His truth, no longer believe the lies which have us captive, but turn away from a life of sinful wrong.

To harden our hearts against a guilty conscience is satan's way of making people more dishonest, loveless, arrogant and wicked. While he tortures loving caring people with their misdeeds making them feel guilty, shameful, regretful, hopeless, full of despair and increasingly fearful and unloved. This way satan keeps people captivated with his bad life while he kills God's good life living within the human heart.

This is why faith in God's love - Jesus Christ - is essential to escape the power of disintegration, satan's name doesn't for nothing mean destroyer.

Please bring yourself before His mercy seat and confess your sins and shortcomings and let Him set you free.

Meeting Jesus.

Inability to change forces me to look Jesus in the eye.
The blushing shame from my own nakedness creeps.
Lucky I know the accuser is merely the father of the lie.
Well now a harvest this fallen angel reaps.
Come see the weeds inside my heart to be burnt!

"Can you remember times of wanton greed?"
Awakened, I hear my faithful Saviour speak
"When you hated from my love to feed?"
In His kind words the fire of His mercy peaks,
I watch my greed tumble out of my psyche.

A fiery ending is the best way to illustrate,
the fate my inner greed meets on his tailspin out.
Utterly rejected and in a most miserable state.
Clear knowledge what his punishment is about,
This past ruler is stripped of his powers.

"Those times you in selfishness did feed?"
The perspicacity of His view zeros in.
His voice gentle, sounding so sweet.
Still I watch my biggest I crumble within.
Tumbling down the tunnel without ending.

"But my beloved child why did you follow?"
His urgent words bring me back from sure calamity.
"How much narcissistic thinking did you swallow?
Come, just let it flow out of your personality,
take on a humble vision of self like me."

Gratefully I take His gift offered to me.
A humble heart inside my chest to throb.
Truly from greedy selfishness free to be.
My dear Heavenly Friend please never stop,
fill my every sense of being with Yourself.

Never did I deserve this.
Your goodness in my heart to meet.
I have done so much amiss.
Yet in loving care You still greet.
Oh how I long forever in You to be.

But Christ entered in once for all! Why do l need to keep confessing to maintain ANYTHING?

 

[Jeshu]

But Christ entered in once for all! Why do l need to keep confessing to maintain ANYTHING?

Sure Christ died once and for all but because we can step in and out of God's truth, walking through time, we can build into new but still also build in wrong. Anything we build with God's loving truth will survive His fire, but anything not build in His truth will burn up. Time and again. This is because of our choices. Choices for good in His Spirit find eternal life therein or chooses in wrong spirituality and we loose our God given good life to the predators and have to find God's loving truth back again.

It is about learning to die to the old living in our flesh and growing into the new of God's Spirit. That is not just an one off, but a daily, dying to sin and finding newness of life in God's loving truth. Each minute saved in His loving truth is so worth it, while each moment we spend outside of His loving truth is wasted time, dead works, judgement and death.

A glory to Jesus for saving His people from their sins and casting sin dead and resurrecting newness of life in Him.

 

[dqhall]

To TD, This issue for me is one where l am trying to understand why the Bible (God) would say my conscience has been cleansed. Cleansed seems a one-time thing, particularly if done by the precious blood. Okay, then, so, then we are admonished to keep it clean, which indicates, at least to me that l can dirty up what Christ has cleansed - a blatant contradiction of one of the foundations of Christianity. Christ's cross work is eternal. How could l undo it?

Christ’s reputation was assured by his behavior in spite of death threats and his execution. Christ rose three days later. If you do God’s will, you will not lose your reward.

 

[Jeshu]

To TD, This issue for me is one where l am trying to understand why the Bible (God) would say my conscience has been cleansed. Cleansed seems a one-time thing, particularly if done by the precious blood. Okay, then, so, then we are admonished to keep it clean, which indicates, at least to me that l can dirty up what Christ has cleansed - a blatant contradiction of one of the foundations of Christianity. Christ's cross work is eternal. How could l undo it?

Isaiah 57:1-4
The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.


“But you—come here, you children of a sorceress,
you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Who are you mocking?
At whom do you sneer
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not a brood of rebels,
the offspring of liars?


God saves you cleansed from your sins in His loving truth, but when you run of with the lie again then your inner truth is not in His truth any more, so the time you spend in lies will have to be cut off by His truth so your truth can be restored into His eternal truth again.

Its best to understand that the sheep in us - those in us who hear his voice and obey Him - are always saved but the goats in us are never saved but perish. Daily it is for us to decide which side of truth we build our reality in.

So yes life in His loving truth will continue forever, even if we get killed by the lies ruling our hearts, God will resurrect this faithful self again in His loving truth down the track. Revelation 20:4-6

Life in His Spirit can never get lost but life in wrongful spirituality will always perish out of us.

Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

 

[Soyeong]

What does it mean to have my conscience purged from dead works?

Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

How does that change my thinking; motives; behavior, etc.?
Can l get my conscience loaded up with dead works again?
What are dead works, anyway?

Dead works are the works that lead to death, which are our sins in transgression of God's Law. Our conscience is informed by the highest level or moral law that we believe. However, our conscience part of our fallen nature, so it is not perfect, which is why Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:3 that even though he was not aware of anything against himself he was not justified. So our conscience helps us to live in accordance with the moral law, but it does not replace it, and therefore is not the ultimate determiner of our spiritual condition. Our conscience is capable of warning us when our spiritual condition is in danger, but it is not God's Law, and needs to be informed by God's Law in order to function correctly.

In Romans 14, there are weak Christians whose conscience is not informed in a mature way, where their conscience won't let them do what they really would be free to do, so again our conscience does not replace God's Law. Someone's conscience can be so misinformed that their glory is in their shame (Philippians 3:19), where both their mind and their conscience are defiled (Titus 1:15). So the first way to destroy the work of conscience is to misinform it where you don't give it the true Law of God and the second way is to silence it when it speaks. In 1 Timothy 4:2, Paul spoke about a wounded or seared conscience, and a good indicator of this is if someone sees nothing wrong with continuing to do what God has revealed in His Law to be sin.