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"Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)
"...go, and sin no more." (John 8:11).
Is it possible to stand upright, righteous, made perfect and blameless before God? The word "conscience" is not introduced in the Word of God until the New Testament. Appropriate when before Jesus Christ, not one man was found worthy. Consider the word Convict and what "convict" means in a court of law. Now lengthen the word to Conviction:
1: the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law
2 a : a strong persuasion or belief b : the state of being convinced
3 a : the act of convincing a person of error or of compelling the admission of a truth b : the state of being convinced of error or compelled to admit the truth
Number three is my favorite. Why? Because Truth is Christ. Truth is light. Truth is freedom.
John 8:8-9
[8] And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. [9] 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.
...beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.
"...go, and sin no more." (John 8:11).
Is it possible to stand upright, righteous, made perfect and blameless before God? The word "conscience" is not introduced in the Word of God until the New Testament. Appropriate when before Jesus Christ, not one man was found worthy. Consider the word Convict and what "convict" means in a court of law. Now lengthen the word to Conviction:
1: the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law
2 a : a strong persuasion or belief b : the state of being convinced
3 a : the act of convincing a person of error or of compelling the admission of a truth b : the state of being convinced of error or compelled to admit the truth
Number three is my favorite. Why? Because Truth is Christ. Truth is light. Truth is freedom.
John 8:8-9
[8] And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. [9] 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.
...beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.
There comes a time when we realize that love is not in helping a person cover up truth but rather in exposing(manifesting) truth.
The old man is dead and so are dead works. The flesh has been tried and found guilty and crucified with Christ. We(His body) are alive unto good works: works of the Spirit and not works of the flesh(sin and death). IN us remains the testimony of Christ. Our conscience bears witness, we of His body are no longer judged by a conscience of dead works but of the conscience of Christ: life. Signifying we are His.
Hebrews 9:8-15
[8] The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: [9] Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; [10] Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. [11] But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; [12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us . [13] For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: [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? [15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 10:2-5
[2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. [5] Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Matthew 3:11-12
[11] I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: [12] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
God the Father prepared the Son's body to be sanctified: cleansed, washed, blameless, righteous and pure and without spot or blemish before God. Purged of sin. “..saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah 31:34) "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare..." (Isaiah 42:9). "Therefore if any man be in Christ (blameless, of a good conscience, without spot or blemish, upright before God), he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."(2 Corinthians 5:17).
How could a man(Saul) who had committed so many offenses against the Lord in persecuting His people say: 1 Timothy 1:3 "I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;"and "Acts 23:1-2 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. [2] And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth." and Acts 24:16 "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men."
1 Timothy 1:4-5
[4] Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do . [5] Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1 Timothy 1:19-20
[19] Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: [20] Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 3:9
[9] Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
The old man is dead and so are dead works. The flesh has been tried and found guilty and crucified with Christ. We(His body) are alive unto good works: works of the Spirit and not works of the flesh(sin and death). IN us remains the testimony of Christ. Our conscience bears witness, we of His body are no longer judged by a conscience of dead works but of the conscience of Christ: life. Signifying we are His.
Hebrews 9:8-15
[8] The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: [9] Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; [10] Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. [11] But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; [12] Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us . [13] For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: [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? [15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 10:2-5
[2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. [5] Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Matthew 3:11-12
[11] I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: [12] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
God the Father prepared the Son's body to be sanctified: cleansed, washed, blameless, righteous and pure and without spot or blemish before God. Purged of sin. “..saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah 31:34) "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare..." (Isaiah 42:9). "Therefore if any man be in Christ (blameless, of a good conscience, without spot or blemish, upright before God), he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."(2 Corinthians 5:17).
How could a man(Saul) who had committed so many offenses against the Lord in persecuting His people say: 1 Timothy 1:3 "I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;"and "Acts 23:1-2 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. [2] And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth." and Acts 24:16 "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men."
1 Timothy 1:4-5
[4] Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do . [5] Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1 Timothy 1:19-20
[19] Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: [20] Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 3:9
[9] Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
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