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Conscience – An Emboldened  Conscience, Part 13

For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols –  1Co 8:10.

[Study Aired January 27, 2024]

A new babe dragged with the humility of a little child eagerly listens to a person clearly rich in the knowledge and understanding of the words of Christ; he is sitting in the temple of the man of God. The apparent spiritual person is automatically esteemed in high honor, as genuinely all the prophets and Godly men and women of old were, such as Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Deborah and all the primary apostles, bar one when iniquity was given him. That God-given honor comes not by choice but the God-given exhibition of consistent righteous living for all to see. The babe ravenously sucks up the milk of the word from such virtuous folk and readily chews on strong meat as it matures.

However, one of the most insidiously damaging acts a supposed Elect can inflict upon a babe weak in the faith is to present themselves as virtuous while slothfully preaching and living a double standard.

1Co 6:19  Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own, 
1Co 6:20  for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Speaking of the heavenly city that is Christ and His Christs:

Rev 21:22  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 
Rev 21:23  And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 
Rev 21:24  And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Rev 21:25  And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 
Rev 21:26  And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

We glorify God in our body, that is, the temple of God in which various people in this day and age flow in and out in the unity of spirit, and we do likewise with them when we, with a pure conscience, immutably know that we speak the truth. However, and regarding 1 Corinthians 8:10, if a noble ‘woman’ with the perception of a ring in her nose speaks perverse things to an unwitting babe, he takes it at face value of truth since he innocently knows no difference, and he innocently becomes “emboldened” to repeat the unconscious lie with passion. The result is the mycelium-like network of leaven among his contemporaries.

(A mycelium is a network of fungal threads or hyphae. Mycelia often grow underground but can also thrive in other places, such as rotting tree trunks [Imagined spiritual people, “twice dead”]. A single spore [a cancerous doctrinal lie] can develop into a mycelium. The fruiting bodies of fungi, such as mushrooms, can sprout from a mycelium). https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=89f48cd6d4598826&sxsrf=ACQVn08DVY5gXrsIjQw07RBfi5zb_GG2Yw:1706305927021&q=mycelium&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo0aH1hPyDAxW9b2wGHcssBwMQ0pQJegQIDRAB&biw=1440&bih=703&dpr=1.33

Following are the scriptures highlighting the theme verse 1 Corinthians 8:10:

1Co 8:1  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 
1Co 8:2  And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 
1Co 8:3  But if any man love God, the same is known of him. 
1Co 8:4  As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1Co 8:5  For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 
1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 
1Co 8:7  Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 
1Co 8:8  But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 
1Co 8:9  But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
1Co 8:10  For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; 
1Co 8:11  And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 
1Co 8:12  But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1Co 8:13  Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Let’s now review those verses in detail.

1Co 8:1  Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 
1Co 8:2  And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 
1Co 8:3  But if any man love God, the same is known of him. 

The Elect of God knows fully well that with practised caution, they can socialise with those who eat spiritual food offered to idols (unclean doctrines), since they are given to know truth from error.  However, an innocent, wide-eyed babe keen to learn of Christ’s doctrines is oblivious to the nuances of error until he understands all the keys to the kingdom of heaven (Luk 8:10, Mat 16:19).

If we genuinely “love God”, we will be keeping by living with our entire hearts all the commandments of Christ. Yet, suppose we are a babe in Christ. In that case, we are still learning and ‘knoweth very little’, and just maybe interacting unwittingly with the synagogue of Satan, his temple, not knowing that our weak conscience is being infected with the mycelium of lies with someone who “knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know“!

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the [mycelium-like] sins of the whole world.
1Jn 2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his [Christ’s spiritual] commandments.

1Jn 2:4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jn 2:5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 
1Jn 2:6  He that saith he abideth in him [Christ’s temple within] ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

1Co 8:4  As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

In the Old Covenant, the Lord’s people were forbidden to eat unclean food, represented in the New Covenant as doctrinal falsehoods (Lev 11:1-47). Since Christ’s coming, eating of false doctrines defiles the temple which we are (Lev 11:43). “To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten” – Lev 11:47. If we are aware that we are communicating with the synagogue of Satan, we can eat of his spiritual ‘mushrooms’ and be nourished by discerning truth from error and not be hurt by deadly things (Mar 16:14-20). However, outwardly, as very recently happened in Victoria, Australia, a poor wretched lady was given by the Lord via Satan’s hand to kill several of her in-laws with death cap mushroom stew. She, like Sinéad O’Connor in the Conscious Study number 12, will realise in the Resurrection to Judgment that they, like Job and hundreds of other Biblical examples, were tools to effectively train the Lord’s Elect to come into full spiritual knowledge. Far be it that we denigrate that lady, Sinéad, Judas or ourselves in different humiliating circumstances since “all things are yours”, the Elect of God.

1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men [despise death cap lady, Sinéad or Judas thus glorifying our unwitting self-righteousness]. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Rom 14:1  Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. [Be pleasant without heated disputes]
Rom 14:2  For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs [or even death caps, and maybe spiritually die].
Rom 14:3  Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him [he is the Lord’s workmanship in Christ’s timing and order of resurrection].
Rom 14:4  Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33  Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another [Wait patiently for those weak in the faith no doubt having been poisoned by Babylon’s death cap doctrinal lies]. 
1Co 11:34  And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.)

Every person is the Lord’s workmanship in His timing and order. We don’t drag them with our wildly passionate hallucinatory psilocybin-like doctrines and our imagined glory. 

Rom 14:5  One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Rom 14:6  He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Rom 14:7  For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
Rom 14:8  For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

Continuing in 1 Corinthians 8:

1Co 8:5  For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) 

The Body of Christ always needs to walk circumspectly before the weak and kings of the world in all humility, as did Jesus, since,

Psa 82:6  I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are [becoming] children of the most High [the creation of God].

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 

Joh 10:34  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Of course, we all start out as the Serpent’s seed, the god, he, and we, being the gods of this world, sitting in the temple of the one and only God, effectively stating that we are (prematurely) God.

1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. 
1Co 8:7  Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 

Howbeit that, Babylonian Christians do not have that knowledge of 1 Corinthians 8:6 because they are given as we also painfully were given to believe a multitude of lies. If we, too, eat an unclean doctrine and are weak in understanding, there is hopefully only a temporary chance we are defiled. The Body in constant unity in Christ is a multitude of counsel that will always result in discovering and upholding Christ’s word on any matter.

1Co 8:8  But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Verse 8 means that knowledge without walking in its spiritual application is utterly useless and will land us in the Lake of Fire.

1Co 8:9  But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

Christ’s Bride has deep compassion for her 1,000 sisters, the spiritual wives of Solomon’s court in Babylonian Christianity. She is careful not to awaken the love that they think they have for Solomon, who represents Christ, in case Christ is irksomely obligated to save.

Son 8:4  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my  [“my” is in italics as an imagined illumination by the 1560’s translators for understanding] love, until he please.

If, out of our fervor or impatience, we awaken spiritual truth to our sisters in Babylon, we effectively usurp Christ’s authority to drag whom He pleases to be a joint in His Bride. We become a stumbling block to Christ and the potential babe or one cursed to be in the Resurrection to Judgment. Rather, we honor and respect our Husband and wait until He pleases to provide understanding in one of the two resurrections.

At this point, we should fully understand the meaning of the theme verse of 1 Corinthians 8:10.

1Co 8:10  For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

As such, we now know that through the flesh of Adam, we all are inherently emboldened to eat in error every unclean doctrine. Four thousand years of emboldening firmly landed us in Babylonian Christianity, fearlessly proclaiming the ‘coffee n doughnuts’ doctrine of ‘Joosus luvs us and died for our sins so that we can blithely live in peace and delusional ignorance imagining that we are saved.’ Conversely, the Lord’s Elect are emboldened positively without fanfare to eat all food clean and ceremonially unclean since both are spiritual light to discern truth from error.

Psa 139:12  Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You.

Jn 4:1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1Jn 4:2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1Jn 4:3  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 
1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 
1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jn 4:6  We [God’s Elect] are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

One of the most damnable acts any Christian can do is to ply a brother with wine with the intention to view his nakedness and then, while he is in his liberal and weakened state of mind, feed him a hazily understood spiritual concept masquerading as the truth.

Hab 2:15  Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 
Hab 2:16  Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

In those circumstances, a weak one has no spiritual defence and utterly, and in spiritual child-like innocence, trusts the more senior one who is supposedly grounded spiritually. That spiritual babe, now intoxicated, becomes innocently ‘emboldened to eat those things that are offered to the idols’ from the slothful counsellor’s heart. He joyously goes his way, believing that he has seen the light of truth, hopefully, sooner than later, to see that Satan himself, disguised as another Jesus, egregiously deceived him (2Co 11:4).

The false Christ deceiving the babe clearly hasn’t died to his self-righteousness, as noted by his uncircumcised heart, filling him with his glory rather than Christ’s truthful word. That counterfeit Christ is drunk on his delusional understanding of the Lord’s word symbolically, likewise, causing him to be semi-consciously naked, or worse, knowingly nude. His uncircumcised heart is aroused and boldly exposing his Serpentine nature as he ‘spews’ his tares of the two-fold child of hell he is denigrating Christ’s glory.

Mat 23:15  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Mat 18:3  And [Jesus] said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 
Mat 18:4  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 18:5  And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name [not another Jesus] receiveth me.
Mat 18:6  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

1Co 8:11  And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 
1Co 8:12  But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 
1Co 8:13  Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

What a God-given tragedy that, in ‘all things being ours’ both good and evil, we, in our time in coming out of Babylon, wince for the many episodes our emboldened conscience has lewdly exposed our uncircumcised hearts as we spewed the defiled seed of our Lord’s word on the fertile ground of an infant creation of God (Hab 2:16). Both the good and evil of all Biblical horror stories are vitally necessary for the Christs to come into the fullness of Him fulfilling the creation of God in us (Job 2:10).

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [remembering that all seven churches of Asia represent Christ’s one Church] write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.

In the positive sense, it is a case of the Lord’s Body being emboldened to eat any food, regardless of idols, with thanks. In doing so, we are given the opportunity to heal the sick with the hidden manna of Christ.

Luk 10:8  And into whatsoever city [a “city” is a person or group of people] ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: 
Luk 10:9  And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Rev 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Understanding and walking in Christ’s commandments is the most emboldening act given by God to His “little flock”, His Bride, for her peaceful conscience.