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Conscience – The Inner Voice of Accusing and Excusing – “… and Jesus Cried”. (Rom 2:15, Luke 19:41-44 ) Part 1

Study Aired October 14, 2023

Conscience

[ kon-shuhns ]
See synonyms for: conscience, conscienceless on Thesaurus.com
noun

  1. the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action:to follow the dictates of conscience.
  2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.
  1. an inhibiting sense of what is prudent:I’d eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.

Synonyms [some] for Conscience:

    • Scruples
    • Morals
    • Compunction
    • Mind
    • Ethics
  • Inner Voice
    • Morality
    • Principles
    • Shame
  • Awareness
  • Spiritual being.

(All synonyms we will soon see match E-Sword’s equivalences.)

From my earliest memories and all the way until physically backed-up disciplines changed to verbal corrections, I got the first withering taste of an evil conscience at about age eight. Prior to that time of my conscience being pricked, the normal parental chastisements were taken in my stride. I was the middle child with an elder sister and a younger brother. It seemed that we didn’t get too many straps across the backside or legs to pull us into gear since the three of us were mostly convinced of change by an eye-to-eye reprimand. We mostly never repeated an offense to require further disciplinary action. 

However, at about age eight, I got the first real taste of consciously concealing and lying, and I got the utterly foreign emotion of crushing devastation. My insides felt like lead. 

You see, I loved anything that flew with inherent purpose: model aircraft and gliders and their real equivalents, along with birds and rockets. Following school one afternoon, while waiting for my bus to leave, I was mesmerized by a teacher on the oval throwing a boomerang quite some distance, and to my amazement, its perfect return to be caught midair with the teacher barely adjusting his step.

Soon after, upon visiting my uncle and aunt’s farm for a family lunch, I saw on a boomerang on the cabinet of their home. In the company of my brother and still younger cousin, and with my conscience dismissing me otherwise for not asking my aunt, I took that flying marvel outside for my sibling’s lesson in aeronautics, fully intending to return it unnoticed to its place. With the imagined sound of distant didgeridoos, I took a classic aboriginal stance and confidently hurled that device with all my might. A kitchen cutting board would have flown with more elegance; it immediately flap-flopped and crashed, breaking a ‘wing’. It was not aerodynamic, but my aunt’s son, the cousin, told me that it was an expensive and treasured display given to his mother by a friend. The looks in my brother’s and cousin’s eyes added to my devastation as I quietly returned the boomerang to its place on the cabinet fitted back together as one piece. 

I agonized for hours in silence, my conscience wanting to tell my aunt of my humiliation and yet my lying and hiding seemed less confronting. Later in the day, I eventually did come clean and told her with barely restrained gulping. She airily dismissed the affair and told me that it wasn’t of great value but a cheap souvenir from Central Australia. Nonetheless, my conscience for being shifty haunted me for years as I relived the devastation of an evil conscience. 

I understood for the first time from Presbyterian Sunday School (the Worldwide Church of God being too far to attend in those early days) the similar devastation Adam and Eve must have felt for disobeying God, their parent. They, too, tried to hide the imagined origin of their iniquity and themselves. The occasion was a God-designed spiritually inherent phenomenon that emerged to identify the humiliation of sin by weirdly pinpointing our pudenda as the origin of the entire affair and is only seen in clarity with spiritual eyes. My nakedness was not hidden in my pants but an accusing spirit that most disturbingly attempted to excuse for peace ~ and didn’t.

For the children that we are, if Adam and Eve’s sin weren’t so serious for all of humanity, their account and mine are quite comical. The reality is that this is precisely what humanity does; it trivializes sins with a wink and nudge and makes a mockery of God’s commands. Universally, in the family, church and government, the foundation of decent society, lies are downplayed, and good conscience is seared. Seared skin forms a callus that resists pain upon subsequent burning, particularly for one’s mind with the Lord’s word. The result is humanity becomes more the spiritually dumb, brute beast he is.

1Ti 4:1  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 
1Ti 4:2  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Ecc 8:10  And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
Ecc 8:11  Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Lackadaisical chastenings insidiously grow layers of a toughened conscience.

Ecc 8:12  Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: 
Ecc 8:13  But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. 

Seen above in Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 are both the positive and negative dynamics of a good and evil conscience. The result of good conscience provides the peace of the Lord’s ‘light yoke’ by him judging himself by accusing (judging himself) his conscience, for him to go forth to build his life more richly in the Lord’s word. Everyone detests being accused by others, yet being given the gift of judging oneself is a massive step in spiritual development.

1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 
1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

As understandably pretentious as it sounds, nobody outside the Body of Christ can effectively instruct the Lord’s Christs. They can inspire truthful concepts overwhelmingly only discerned by the Lord’s own, yet the non-spiritual man will, at best, vaguely see in spirit and truth and likely regress to uphold his own righteousness. Without the Lord adding to his spirit to connect with His spirit within, it is impossible for the embryonic called ones to grow in spirit (1Co 13:12, 1Co 2:12-26). 

Nonetheless, it rains on the just and the unjust alike. The unrighteous with a seared conscience who seemingly escapes chastisement likewise goes forth to richly live unrighteously, witless or minimally with uncertainty that his judgment is far off in the future. Like Esau, excused by his conscience, he dismisses his inheritance for the pleasure of satisfying his temporary physical hunger for maybe a miserable fifteen minutes as opposed to the unutterable eternal richness in a Husband. If we, as Esau, had listened to his accusing conscience, he would have realised he was utterly deluded in prolonging his earthly days by short-term pain in lieu of mental torture in the Lake of Fire that will seem an eternity, an unwanted prolonging of days. Quickly acknowledging one’s sin is always the least torturous option.

Gen 3:6  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Likewise, I saw that the boomerang was good for flying and a chance to demonstrate my knowledge of flight and be wise to my siblings. As the elder of the party, I unwittingly and unconsciously to my brother and cousin, incited shiftiness and lying in them that no doubt reinforced that inherent nature for a little more hardening of their hearts for their later experiences (A little leaven leavens the entire lump – Gal 5:9).

Gen 3:7  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Bam! There you go with that verse and the first case for humanity, the demonstration of an accusing conscience: Adam and Eve. “They knew that they were naked.” Their leaden, accusing conscience didn’t let up there. They very soon heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden and causing a malignancy of excusing evil by vainly hiding and then blaming.

Gen 3:8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 
Gen 3:9  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 
Gen 3:10  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 

The nature of the Beast we are, and out of fear, is to hide the sin that causes us to mortifyingly feel naked and vainly mitigate humiliation. Exposed nakedness results in a genetic, God-created, alarming and impulsive emotion to cover up, to cover the “sin of nakedness” being learned by these two young nudies. Now, all sorts of marital accusations and justifications bent their ‘spiritual genetics’ for mankind’s torturous journey and ultimate rulership over sin.

Gen 3:11  And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

A sperm cell entering an egg instantly, as seen under an electron microscope, generates a flash of light energy, initiating new life. So, too, does an evil or righteous spirit. Eve’s conscience, entertained by the Serpent and with a God-blinded conscience, inherently desired to expand her (poetically speaking) highly receptive blank-page-mind capacity for knowledge. Her conscience lit up with a different spirit to her Lord’s to know good and evil. She was so excited she had to show Adam her newly acquired brilliance, and he, as do all besotted husbands, did eat. Then, the Lord unchained their conscience to accuse them of disobeying their parents (Christ and His Father). Their accusing and excusing game made them aware of a new and devastating emotion of conscience for mankind to use and abuse all the way into the Eighth Day of an analogical eight thousand years of re-creation.

Gen 3:12  And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. [… continuing accusations and excuses…]
Gen 3:13  And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

At this point, we will study the meaning of “conscience” – G4893.

Of the thirty-one occurrences “conscience” is spoken in scriptures, its origin is from those expressions in Greek: 4983 ‘to be aware, to consciously know the spirit of truth or error.’

Adam and Eve set mankind on the path to knowing the difference between a good and evil conscience by obedience or disobedience to His word. Regardless of the upcoming ‘endless’ experiences of committing different crimes, they now inherently have their consciences righteously or unrighteously accusing or excusing them since they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A fullness of evil experiences was now set to exponentially assail the conscience of mankind. It all is an essential element in the beginning of re-creating a New Adam straight out of the gates of Eden.

Regardless of not knowing God’s laws, even the heathen know the difference between good and evil. All they have to experience is someone doing to them what inherently (instigated by Adam’s sin) outrages them if the same was done to them. Their conscience accuses or excuses them righteously or, for their own selfish welfare, excuses them and almost always impulsively hides in shame and self-righteousness.

1Jn 4:6  We 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.

Rom 7:6  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 

We are being made aware of the spirit of a good conscience by the Law.

Rom 7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 

Since Adam, the Lord is building a temporary temple within each of us to be destroyed ~ wryly, the original ‘strawman’ the Lord constructs and destroys by His will as the Master Potter to do as He pleases for our learning.

Our conscience, therefore, causes us to be aware of many underlying states of awareness of spirit that accuse us for subsequent and joyful compliance to the commands of Christ or, in contrast, the Beast within excuses us. Satan is the brilliant construct of God, epitomizing His nemeses, to bring about man’s awareness of his evil conscience since Satan is our God-designed second and preferred father from Eden (Joh 8:44). He is the arch-accuser, inspiring excuses, teaching his children a more relished way of interacting. The Serpent consummates us with his evil spirit that so easily connects with decaying flesh. He is a tool created specifically for our re-creating in our Lord’s perfection.

Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 
Rev 12:10  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

The Lord’s little flock are gladly being accused right now and, by our Lord’s sanctification, made to acknowledge their sins, thus excusing righteously.

Isa 1:17  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 
Isa 1:18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 
Isa 1:19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 
Isa 1:20  But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 

Rom 2:1  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 
Rom 2:2  But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them [most eminently, us!] which commit such things. 
Rom 2:3  And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? [NO, we don’t! We welcome judgment.]
Rom 2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? [… and a good conscience]
Rom 2:5  But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath [through excuses] against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 
Rom 2:6  Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Rom 2:7  To them who by patient continuance in well doing [their conscience not condemning them] seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 
Rom 2:8  But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, [… an evil conscience that brings…]
Rom 2:9  Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the [spiritual] Jew first, and also of the Gentile [coming along after];
Rom 2:10  But glory, honour, and peace [via a good conscience], to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 
Rom 2:11  For there is no respect of persons with God. 
Rom 2:12  For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 
Rom 2:13  (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 
Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Rom 2:16  In the day when God shall judge the secrets [their conscience; their inner heart] of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 

At this point, and a temporary break in Romans 2, I wish to introduce our brother Saul of Tarsus and his good conscience, even while breathing murderous threats against the Lord’s budding Elect. Saul was a devout Jew whose piety and passion for the Old Covenant Lord was peerless. His passion for the Law of Moses was founded in its outward administration, and he did it with all his murderous might with a near-perfect conscience.

Act 9:1  And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 
Act 9:2  And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem [for a jolly decent and most satisfying stoning of these miserable heretical Christians!]
Act 9:3  And as he [Saul] journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 
Act 9:4  And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 
Act 9:5  And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks [G2759 – 1. A sting]. 

You see, even Saul, who had the Law of Moses soundly in his heart with a good conscience, experienced the dichotomy of something neglecting that conscience. Already, at some undisclosed time, the holy spirit began to “prick” his conscience and create an awareness of an evil conscience wanting to rip apart all that he had studiously learned at the feet of Gamaliel.

Act 22:1  Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence [in good conscience!] which I make now unto you.
Act 22:2  (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) 
Act 22:3  I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Act 22:4  And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. [It is not a long shot to reason that he also killed children as the Law required in its “perfect manner of the law of the fathers;” (1Sa 15:3)]

Similarly to Job, Saul kept the Law nearly perfectly and, in doing so, had a clear conscience before God. Nonetheless, following his conversion and being renamed Paul, he no doubt felt dreadful remorse because of the pricks caused by the new creation within, his spiritual conscience (conversely, a formally physically perceived conscience is justified as absolving physically and thus excusing and innocent). Upon looking back in his mind and seeing the pitiful, anguished faces of those men, women and children he stoned connecting pleading eyes with his, he must have surely had a Peter-like stab in his heart similar to Peter’s account of his eyes connecting with Jesus’s eyes on the balcony and before Jesus’ death. Paul killed Christians in good conscience, unaware that Christ, the Lord of both the Old and New Covenants, had made a seismic change in how the Law was now to be kept.

2Ti 1:1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 
2Ti 1:2  To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 
2Ti 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; 
2Ti 1:4  Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; 
2Ti 1:5  When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith [an unfeigned faith cannot be manifested without a good conscience] that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. 
2Ti 1:6  Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. 
2Ti 1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind [… that is, a good conscience of living righteously]
2Ti 1:8  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 

Nobody can be ashamed of a mind whose underpinning can only be a good conscience.

Returning to…

Act 7:58  And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
Act 7:59  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 
Act 7:60  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Steven got the God-given earth-shattering understanding of Christ’s teachings; it was so conscientiously understood that it eclipsed the brutal stoning by his brethren.

Rom 2:17  Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 
Rom 2:18  And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 

That epiphany is what caused Steven to call out to God to not lay the charge of his murder against his brethren. Steven’s conscience connected with the Lord’s spirit and saw the excellence of the New Covenant to be kept spiritually. No doubt Paul’s later reflections further stabbed him in his heart upon recalling Steven’s powerful cry.

Jesus Christ, being God made in sinful flesh, epitomized every nuance of awareness for right and wrong since He created the mindful response termed “conscience.” Christ was painfully aware that the pinnacle of His creation in mankind which He designed to be a grievous sinning ‘machine’ constantly pricked his awareness to sin. Jesus thus felt dreadfully aware of what He created for purposeful destruction and man’s horrendous brutality towards his fellow man, particularly what was to imminently befall Jerusalem under Roman siege. He knew that mothers would be compelled to eat their own children rather than starve, and their children’s suffering increased their anguish for a harrowingly inevitable end. Jesus’ righteous conscience weighed heavily on Him for the extraordinary end-time event and outcome that His poor suffering ‘children’ of humanity didn’t yet understand. His following words are rich in good conscience ~ an agonizing principled awareness in every sentence: 

Isa 54:7  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 
Isa 54:8  In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

Luk 19:41  And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 
Luk 19:42  Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luk 19:43  For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luk 19:44  And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou [by design] knewest not the time of thy visitation. 

Conclusion

It is the spirit of God, His very essence of being, a micro-dose inseminated in man, that differentiates man from the beasts of the field who have no conscience. The spirit in man, and most imminently the Elect of God, gives them alone the capacity to rightly pursue a good accusing conscience that doesn’t excuse, hide or blame.

Ecc 3:18  I said in mine heart [the conscience of good and evil] concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. [Beasts with a conscience!]
Ecc 3:19  For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 
Ecc 3:20  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 
Ecc 3:21  Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? 
Ecc 3:22  Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? 

Man’s “portion” without much of God’s spirit is to painfully learn through the evil experience of decaying flesh his utter incapacity to sustain spiritual growth in good conscience and not default to an evil conscience.

Job 32:8  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 

Pro 20:27  The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts [conscience] of the belly. 

1Co 2:11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

As seen in the “Worship” study, predatory wolves have no conscience in eating their prey alive. Yet, the positive side of wolves eating their prey in the morning and feeding their ‘young’ of the Church in the evening is a hard saying for a Gentile Christian to perceive, particularly being thrown “alive” into the Lake of Fire that requires spiritual conscience to know its merciful meaning as “food” for the Elect.

The conscience in Adam and Eve was pricked by their inner voice, accusing them of wrong and classically hiding and subsequently excusing and blaming. The only “law” they knew was not to touch or look upon the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It wasn’t a sin to see (“look upon”) where the tree was located; the looking upon it terminology indicated the spirit of lusting for the yet-to-experience evil consciousness in disobeying their God by entertaining the amplification of lust to eventuate the conscienceless act. That act boomeranged the devastating new emotion of an evil conscience and its trimmings of hiding, accusing, blaming and lying. Adam and Eve, in witless duty, placed mankind on the steel rails of always contending the knowledge of God to judge good and evil through their conscience, only without a greater portion of the holy spirit, to frustratingly default to an evil conscience.

Through God’s spirit in all mankind, Jews, spiritual Jews and Gentiles alike inherently know right from wrong. It is only given to the Lord’s Elect to worship in spirit and truth, having been given by God the spiritual keys to brightly connect with their Lord His consummative plan for them and mankind. Their brothers in Babylon have long overcome their frustration of not being able to contend their sins since they haven’t been given significantly more of God’s spirit. It is thus easier to believe that Christ did it all on the cross so that they do not have to die and are saved now ~ to them, it’s all just too hard to understand; it’s much easier to believe in Substitutional Theology.

Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God; 
Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled [cleansed] from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 
Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

Next week, Lord willing, we shall look at many universal personal experiences of good and evil consciences.

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