Gods priorities must become part of us

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• (Romans 121-2 NKJV) I beseech you therefore,
  brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present
  your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
  to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And
  do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• Consider how God shows His priorities. (1
  Pt 33-4)

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• Consider how God shows His priorities. (1
  Pt 33-4)
• This is a "not .. but" verse. These are two
  things that God says is not of equal value.

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• (1 Peter 33-4 NKJV) Do not let your adornment
  be merely outward arranging the hair, wearing
  gold, or putting on fine apparel 4 rather let
  it be the hidden person of the heart, with the
  incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet
  spirit, which is very precious in the sight of
  God.

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• (John 626-27 NKJV) Jesus answered them and
  said, Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me,
  not because you saw the signs, but because you
  ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not
  labor for the food which perishes, but for the
  food which endures to everlasting life, which the
  Son of Man will give you, because God the Father
  has set His seal on Him.

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Gods priorities must become part of us

• (Matthew 619-20 NKJV) Do not lay up for
  yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
  rust destroy and where thieves break in and
  steal 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures
  in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys
  and where thieves do not break in and steal.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• What is a conscience?

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• What is a conscience?
• "suneidesis" - the soul as distinguishing
  between what is morally good and bad, prompting
  to do the former and shun the latter, commending
  one, condemning the other.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• What is a conscience?
• "suneidesis" - the soul as distinguishing
  between what is morally good and bad, prompting
  to do the former and shun the latter, commending
  one, condemning the other.
• The conscience is a judge based upon previous
  training and experience. (Rom 214-15)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Romans 214-15 NKJV) for when Gentiles, who do
  not have the law, by nature do the things in the
  law, these, although not having the law, are a
  law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the
  law written in their hearts, their conscience
  also bearing witness, and between themselves
  their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• A good conscience will make you feel bad by just
  thinking a thing.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• A good conscience will make you feel bad by just
  thinking a thing.
• A conscience can be trained in a wrong way. You
  may do bad and feel good or do that which is not
  sin and feel bad! (Acts 231, 269
  1 Cor 87)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Acts 231 NKJV) Then Paul, looking earnestly
  at the council, said, Men and brethren, I have
  lived in all good conscience before God until
  this day.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Acts 269 NKJV) Indeed, I myself thought I
  must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus
  of Nazareth.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Corinthians 87 NKJV) However, there is not
  in everyone that knowledge for some, with
  consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a
  thing offered to an idol and their conscience,
  being weak, is defiled.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• A weak conscience is one that has been improperly
  trained.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• We fail to have a good conscience in two ways.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• We fail to have a good conscience in two ways.
• We may fail to instill in our hearts what is
  right. (Heb 810 Jas 122-25)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Hebrews 810 NKJV) For this is the covenant
  that I will make with the house of Israel after
  those days, says the LORD I will put My laws in
  their mind and write them on their hearts and I
  will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (James 122-25 NKJV) But be doers of the word,
  and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23
  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a
  doer, he is like a man observing his natural face
  in a mirror 24 for he observes himself, goes
  away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he
  was.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of
  liberty and continues in it, and is not a
  forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one
  will be blessed in what he does.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• Here is where our love for God causes us to
  meditate upon what is pleasing to Him.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• Here is where our love for God causes us to
  meditate upon what is pleasing to Him.
• There are times when Christians love the world
  more than God. In this kind of heart they
  proclaim freedom from "rules." (1 Jn 215-17)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 John 215-17 NKJV) Do not love the world or
  the things in the world. If anyone loves the
  world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16
  For all that is in the world the lust of the
  flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
  life is not of the Father but is of the world.
  17 And the world is passing away, and the lust
  of it but he who does the will of God abides
  forever.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• We may weaken and even destroy the conscience
  through doing those things we know are wrong.
  (1 Tim 41-2 Tit 115-16)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Timothy 41-2 NKJV) Now the Spirit expressly
  says that in latter times some will depart from
  the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and
  doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in
  hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared
  with a hot iron,

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Titus 115-16 NKJV) To the pure all things are
  pure, but to those who are defiled and
  unbelieving nothing is pure but even their mind
  and conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to
  know God, but in works they deny Him, being
  abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for
  every good work.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• A Good conscience will give you great blessings.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• A Good conscience will give you great blessings.
• You can know that you have acted properly. (Rom
  91 2 Cor 112)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Romans 91 NKJV) I tell the truth in Christ, I
  am not lying, my conscience also bearing me
  witness in the Holy Spirit,

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (2 Corinthians 112 NKJV) For our boasting is
  this the testimony of our conscience that we
  conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity
  and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but
  by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward
  you.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• There is a great strength in looking at others
  and knowing you have done what was best before
  them! (Acts 231)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Acts 231 NKJV) Then Paul, looking earnestly
  at the council, said, Men and brethren, I have
  lived in all good conscience before God until
  this day.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• There are limitations to this confidence. We must
  always seek out to test our confidence by God's
  word. (1 Cor 43-4)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Corinthians 43-4 NKJV) But with me it is a
  very small thing that I should be judged by you
  or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge
  myself. 4 For I know nothing against myself,
  yet I am not justified by this but He who judges
  me is the Lord.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• You can be strong in adversity.
  (1 Pt 219 316)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Peter 219 NKJV) For this is commendable, if
  because of conscience toward God one endures
  grief, suffering wrongfully.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Peter 316 NKJV) having a good conscience,
  that when they defame you as evildoers, those who
  revile your good conduct in Christ may be
  ashamed.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• What is the source of our strength in these
  times? We can know that God is with us!
  (1 Pt 312-14)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (1 Peter 312-14 NKJV) For the eyes of the LORD
  are on the righteous, And His ears are open to
  their prayers But the face of the LORD is
  against those who do evil. 13 And who is he
  who will harm you if you become followers of what
  is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for
  righteousness sake, you are blessed. And do not
  be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• In times of grief we can take great comfort in
  knowing the great God whom we serve will not
  forsake us.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• In times of grief we can take great comfort in
  knowing the great God whom we serve will not
  forsake us.
• What about those who do not have a good
  conscience? (Prov 281)

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• (Proverbs 281 NKJV) The wicked flee when no
  one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a
  lion.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• "As Augustine noted, "at times a man's slave,
  worn out by the commands of an unfeeling master,
  finds rest in flight. Whither can the servant
  flee? Himself he carries with him wherever he
  flees. An evil conscience flees not from itself
  it has no place to go to it follows itself.

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Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our
hearts.

• Yea he cannot withdraw from himself, for the sin
  he commits is within. He has committed sin to
  obtain some bodily pleasure. The pleasure passes
  away the sin remains. What delighted is gone
  the sting has remained behind. Evil bondage!"

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Our dress should reflect a good conscience. (1
  Tim 29-10) KJV

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• " In like manner also, that women adorn
  themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness
  and sobriety not with broided hair, or gold, or
  pearls, or costly array 10 But (which becometh
  women professing godliness) with good works."

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.
• Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the
  idea of downcast eyes a sense of shame or
  honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard
  for others, respect.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.
• Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the
  idea of downcast eyes a sense of shame or
  honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard
  for others, respect.
• sobriety - (sophrosune) 1) soundness of mind
  2) self-control

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Nakedness should cause the painful emotion of
  shame!

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Gen 225) - Adam and Eve were naked when they
  had no clothes.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Genesis 225 NKJV) And they were both naked,
  the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Gen 37,10-11) - They were still naked when they
  made the equivalent of mens
  swimming trunks!

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Genesis 37 NKJV) Then the eyes of both of
  them were opened, and they knew that they were
  naked and they sewed fig leaves together and
  made themselves coverings.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Genesis 310-11 NKJV) So he said, I heard
  Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
  because I was naked and I hid myself. 11 And
  He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have
  you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you
  that you should not eat?

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Gen 321) - They were no longer naked when God
  made them tunics of skin.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Gen 321) - They were no longer naked when God
  made them tunics of skin.
• These are defined as "generally with sleeves,
  coming down to the knees" (v. 21 Gesenius,
  Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon, 420).

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Genesis 321 NKJV) Also for Adam and his wife
  the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed
  them.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• God replaced their shorts with garments covering
  from the shoulders down to the knees to cover the
  shame of their nakedness. - Ron Halbrook

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Ex 2841-42Isa 472-3) - God was very concerned
  with improper clothing that still left one naked!
  How much was covered?

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Exodus 2841-42 NKJV) So you shall put them
  on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him.
  You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and
  sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as
  priests. 42 And you shall make for them linen
  trousers to cover their nakedness they shall
  reach from the waist to the thighs.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (Isaiah 472-3 NKJV) Take the millstones and
  grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt,
  Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers. 3
  Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your
  shame will be seen I will take vengeance, And I
  will not arbitrate with a man.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• Have you lost your shame concerning nakedness?

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• God has also spoken on the length of hair for
  women and men. (1 Cor 1114-15)

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• (1 Corinthians 1114-15 NKJV) Does not even
  nature itself teach you that if a man has long
  hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a
  woman has long hair, it is a glory to her for
  her hair is given to her for a covering.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• A good conscience will not be defensive about
  what men think but rather careful to be pleasing
  to God.

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How the conscience will affect our dress

• A good conscience will not be defensive about
  what men think but rather careful to be pleasing
  to God.
• We can become used to what the world accepts and
  forget God. (Ex. 1960's)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• In dating we will avoid those things that destroy
  restraint. (2 Tim 222)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (2 Timothy 222 NKJV) Flee also youthful lusts
  but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with
  those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• What is a proper display of affection and what is
  that which stimulates lusts?

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• What is a proper display of affection and what is
  that which stimulates lusts?
• What if you date someone who does not have a good
  conscience? Do not be surprised to be tested
  again and again to more and more compromise.(2
  Tim 36-7)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (2 Timothy 36-7 NKJV) For of this sort are
  those who creep into households and make captives
  of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away
  by various lusts, 7 always learning and never
  able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• This is a very strong test of your conscience.
  Why not date a Christian who also has a heart
  for God?

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• This is a very strong test of your conscience.
  Why not date a Christian who also has a heart
  for God?
• "The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the
  practice of all physicians of all the countries
  of the world."

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• This is why Christians avoid the public dance,
  mixed swimming and such things.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• We will tell the truth. (Col 39 Eph 425)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Ephesians 425 NKJV) Therefore, putting away
  lying, Let each one of you speak truth with his
  neighbor, for we are members of one another.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Colossians 39 NKJV) Do not lie to one
  another, since you have put off the old man with
  his deeds,

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• We will make things right! (Mt 522-24)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Matthew 522-24 NKJV) But I say to you that
  whoever is angry with his brother without a cause
  shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever
  says to his brother, Raca! shall be in danger
  of the council. But whoever says, You fool!
  shall be in danger of hell fire.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• 23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the
  altar, and there remember that your brother has
  something against you, 24 leave your gift
  there before the altar, and go your way. First be
  reconciled to your brother, and then come and
  offer your gift.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• Are you looking to let God rule in your heart?
  (Mt 58)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Matthew 58 NKJV) Blessed are the pure in
  heart, For they shall see God.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• We need each other to help test our hearts. (Heb
  1023-25)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Hebrews 1023-25 NKJV) Let us hold fast the
  confession of our hope without wavering, for He
  who promised is faithful. 24 And let us
  consider one another in order to stir up love and
  good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of
  ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but
  exhorting one another, and so much the more as
  you see the Day approaching.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• "At the turn of the century, James Burns wrote
  the book Revivals The Laws and Leaders. In the
  opening chapter he discusses "laws" of revival,
  as well as the "laws" of the absence of revival.
  "The first tendency," he writes, "Is for the
  doctrine of the church to lose its power of
  convicting the conscience, convincing the mind,
  or moving the heart."

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• He goes on to point out that spiritual decay
  brings with it a formality of worship in which
  the "ritual" is so exalted that it crushes the
  spirit."

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• Above all we need to bare our hearts to God and
  ask for help. (Lk 16 Rev 32)

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Luke 16 NKJV) And they were both righteous
  before God, walking in all the commandments and
  ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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How the conscience will affect our actions.

• (Revelation 32 NKJV) Be watchful, and
  strengthen the things which remain, that are
  ready to die, for I have not found your works
  perfect before God.

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