A clear conscience….

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1 Timothy 3:9 (NASB20)
but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

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Holding onto the mystery of trusting God in life, it is a mystery because it cannot be seen with human eyes, but the eyes of the heart can taste one’s faith.. This is where faith becomes a substance, it becomes a thing, a real thing that the heart can taste… Holding onto this mysterious substance, knowing that sin, the works of self is that that causes the conscience to hide itself from faith… For only a clear conscience can hold onto this substance of faith that touches God…

It is this holding onto one’s faith in God when the tempers, passions and desires of this life would cloud and press into one… This holding on will produce this substance of faith the eyes of the heart can actually taste, for the heart will let one know when it has lost this tasting of faith by a deadness inside that can not be denied, or in other words, by the losing of one’s joy…

This losing of one’s joy is the instantaneous word of God to turn and repent… It matters not if it is a large or small thing, for the turning back to faith is the issue that causes one’s growth in this substance of faith…. For all things come from God through this mystery of faith..

Not when one has arrived or been made perfect, but the conscience is clear when it knows nothing against itself.. It is this clear conscience that can boldly come before the Throne of God and lay its petitions down.. It is this clear conscience that is met with the loving arms of God.. For faith is the substance of, this substance is met and embraced by the God of love.. But this substance must needs have a clear conscience to be of effect and receive from God…

So the question becomes how can one maintain this clear conscience as one’s tempers, passions, desires are on a rampage?

Die to them…

This constant clear conscience can be manifested and maintained by a constant reckoning oneself dead, for all truths come back to this truth, for without this truth no other truth can be made a living reality in life that will abide, that will not be at mercy of one of the tempers..

For experiencing the mysterious salvation from this life to the new, is the birth right of all that have been made partakers of the new birth….

Be blessed in the new birth as the mystery of faith grows….

A fellow follower of His, Not me
 
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but holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.
The KJV has "a pure conscience". So is there a difference? It would appear that the KJV is once again closer to the actual Greek word. A clear conscience is not the same as a pure conscience.

Strong's Concordance
katharos: clean (adjective)
Original Word: καθαρός, ά, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: katharos
Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ar-os')
Definition: clean (adjective)
Usage: clean, pure, unstained, either literally or ceremonially or spiritually; guiltless, innocent, upright.

HELPS Word-studies
2513
katharós (a primitive word) – properly, "without admixture" (BAGD); what is separated (purged), hence "clean" (pure) because unmixed (without undesirable elements); (figuratively) spiritually clean because purged (purified by God), i.e. free from the contaminating (soiling) influences of sin.
 

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The KJV has "a pure conscience". So is there a difference? It would appear that the KJV is once again closer to the actual Greek word. A clear conscience is not the same as a pure conscience.

Strong's Concordance
katharos: clean (adjective)
Original Word: καθαρός, ά, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: katharos
Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ar-os')
Definition: clean (adjective)
Usage: clean, pure, unstained, either literally or ceremonially or spiritually; guiltless, innocent, upright.

HELPS Word-studies
2513
katharós (a primitive word) – properly, "without admixture" (BAGD); what is separated (purged), hence "clean" (pure) because unmixed (without undesirable elements); (figuratively) spiritually clean because purged (purified by God), i.e. free from the contaminating (soiling) influences of sin.

Be blessed in having a conscience as such…

A fellow believer, Not me
 
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