Wednesday, November 10, 2010

How's your conscience?

Many years ago cartoons commonly portrayed little angels and devils on the shoulder. What that graphically depicted was the crisis of conscience within all of us.


The Bible describes the conscience as either being weak and defiled (1 Corinthians 8:6-8; 1 Timothy 4:1-3; Titus 1:14-16), or as clean and sincere (2 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Timothy 1:4-6; 3:8-9).


How do we cleanse the conscience? Hebrews 9:13-14 says, “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: 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?” How do we come into contact with this blood? Peter wrote, “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21). Through baptism, the conscience is cleansed.


Where is your conscience? If it is defiled, then allow it to be cleansed by the blood of Christ through belief, repentance, confession of Jesus as Christ, and water baptism.


Kyle Campbell

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