Our Sacred Damaged Conscience
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I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so that you can see.
WILL THE REAL GOSPEL PLEASE STAND UP PART 6
WILL THE REAL GOSPEL PLEASE STAND UP PART 6
Our Sacred Damaged Conscience
Our Sacred Damaged Conscience
Point of tension: What in the world is wrong with the world.
--Membrane between life and death constantly poked
Your conscience is sacred
Your conscience is sacred
--It is that part of you that taps in to the realm of God.
-- Your sin has separated you from God
But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
-- If I had cherished sin in my heart
If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened;
2 IMPORTANT TRUTHS
2 IMPORTANT TRUTHS
1. You Were Born Into The “Do It Yourself Life” --- Never Good Enough
1. You Were Born Into The “Do It Yourself Life” --- Never Good Enough
and God has bound all men over to disobedience
For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
to those under the law so that every mouth may be silenced
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
2. The purpose of your Christianity is the salvation of your soul
2. The purpose of your Christianity is the salvation of your soul
humbly accept the word able to save our souls
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
goal of our faith- salvation of our souls....
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Our Sacred Damaged Conscience
Our Sacred Damaged Conscience
1. THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR CONSCIENCE
1. THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR CONSCIENCE
Clear Conscience
Timothy, my son, I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith.
The gifts and sacrifices not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper
This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshipper. They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
Hearts Sprinkled with the blood to cleanse us from a guilty conscience
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
2. MANKIND WAS CREATED NAKED (A perpetual vacuum for worth and value)
2. MANKIND WAS CREATED NAKED (A perpetual vacuum for worth and value)
Just like a fish was created to live in water so we were created to live inside of right-standing with God … that is the love and good opinion of God
Perpetual Neediness..
Example: Car always needing fuel…
Example: Lights always needing electricity
Example: Fish needing water
Example: Man needing God
In the beginning God created man naked i.e.. in a spiritual vacuum (Perpetual Neediness...
3. BEFORE PARTAKING OF THE “DO IT YOURSELF TREE” MAN LIVED WITH A PERFECT CONSCIENCE (Perpetual neediness fulfilled by the good opinion of God)
3. BEFORE PARTAKING OF THE “DO IT YOURSELF TREE” MAN LIVED WITH A PERFECT CONSCIENCE (Perpetual neediness fulfilled by the good opinion of God)
A perfect conscience is one in which the the vacuum is positively filled
Shame and condemnation scar a person’s conscience
The vacuum is no longer positively filled
They were both naked and felt no shame
The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Before the fall, Adam and Eve did not recognize that they were naked because they lived complete, and fully fulfilled, in the Glory of God
Adam & Eve lived in God’s good opinion--God’s total and complete right-ness/ righteousness LOVE)
The state of being unclothed speaks of being in a Vacuum / Perpetually needy
But they were clothed in the good opinion of God
4. AFTER PARTAKING OF THE “DO IT YOURSELF TREE”, MAN’S CONSCIENCE WAS DAMAGED
4. AFTER PARTAKING OF THE “DO IT YOURSELF TREE”, MAN’S CONSCIENCE WAS DAMAGED
In a vacuum (for worth and value) without a way to positively fill it… ie no way to be right/
They realized they were naked and immediately tried to be righteous by sewing fig leaves (desirable for gaining wisdom)
“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realised that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Vacuum -- needy to feel right...
EXAMPLE:
Child from birth longing to feel right/loved
Longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
Sinful passions aroused by the law
For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.
The law puts into question my rightness
Neither Hot nor Cold..(living in intimacy) Poor, blind and NAKED
You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Closer to naked in clothes speaks of the unloved nature... trying to feel loved.
5. NAKED WITHOUT THE GOOD OPINION OF GOD = HYPOCRITE
5. NAKED WITHOUT THE GOOD OPINION OF GOD = HYPOCRITE
G.W. eram (aw-ram') naked/ nudity
G.W. eram (aw-ram') naked/ nudity
The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Comes from G.W. erom (ay-rome') to be cunning (in a bad sense) crafty, deal subtilly... Hypocrite
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realised that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
The old NatureTrying to feel like it it is loved and worthy or right/righteous in it's cunning and crafty ways.
poor, blind and naked
You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Poor = Spiritually Bankrupt
Blind = Cannot see the glory of God– God's good opinion
Naked = Without worth– Incomplete–Unfulfilled longing
God hates Hypocrisy but loves the hypocrite
6. YOUR CONSCIENCE CAN BE HEALED TODAY
6. YOUR CONSCIENCE CAN BE HEALED TODAY
Clothes yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ
Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ.
for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
When we are clothed we will not be found naked ****
Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
How to clothe yourself with Christ
How to clothe yourself with Christ
Receive God’s provision for living in His good opinion
Receive God’s provision for living in His good opinion
1. Humble yourself to accept that you can never be right without God
1. Humble yourself to accept that you can never be right without God
Humbly accept the word planted in you
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
2. Leave the “Do it yourself” way of life
2. Leave the “Do it yourself” way of life
All who rely on observing the law are under a curse
All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”Clearly no-one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
No one will be declared righteous by observing the law
Therefore no-one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.
3. Receive that you died with Christ at the cross
3. Receive that you died with Christ at the cross
Those who were baptised were baptised into his death
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
You died with Christ to the “Do it yourself” system of living (the law) your old partner. Conscience bound to “Try to be good enough”
4. Renew your mind with the truth that sets you free
4. Renew your mind with the truth that sets you free
Truth will make you free
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Set your mind on things above.
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Whatsoever things are pure
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.