I have never really thought about what the ministry of the Holy Spirit is in our lives.
We are born with two mechanisms, love in our hearts, empathy and defence mechanisms.
Our conscience balances out our loyalties and relationships
Now we are called to follow Jesus from the heart, to choose to do good over evil, because of love.
Now conviction of sin is down to our conscience which balances out our loyalties with our morality.
Now the Holy Spirit teaches and guides us in love and morality. We are given Gods words which work through us and show up contradictions. We then sort out this conflict, guided by the Holy Spirit. His work looks like completely uplifting and encouraging, bringing blessing into our lives.
But our consciences are the one thing that shows up us as opposed to the Lord and where we fall short.
But it is not to condemn but to call to action.
Paul talks constantly about having a clean conscience and being careful not to cause a problem for a brother or sister with a weak conscience.
So rather than repressing or ignoring your conscience, Paul is saying us it in reference to how you walk and righteousness to stay true to your convictions.
What has concerned me is people saying their conscience is satan talking to them.
This is neither safe nor sensible, because our conscience is our saftey check on behaviour. It is the one thing Jesus criticised the pharisees for destroying their conscience and having no heart.
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
1 Tim 4:2
They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.
Rom2:15
We are born with two mechanisms, love in our hearts, empathy and defence mechanisms.
Our conscience balances out our loyalties and relationships
Now we are called to follow Jesus from the heart, to choose to do good over evil, because of love.
Now conviction of sin is down to our conscience which balances out our loyalties with our morality.
Now the Holy Spirit teaches and guides us in love and morality. We are given Gods words which work through us and show up contradictions. We then sort out this conflict, guided by the Holy Spirit. His work looks like completely uplifting and encouraging, bringing blessing into our lives.
But our consciences are the one thing that shows up us as opposed to the Lord and where we fall short.
But it is not to condemn but to call to action.
Paul talks constantly about having a clean conscience and being careful not to cause a problem for a brother or sister with a weak conscience.
So rather than repressing or ignoring your conscience, Paul is saying us it in reference to how you walk and righteousness to stay true to your convictions.
What has concerned me is people saying their conscience is satan talking to them.
This is neither safe nor sensible, because our conscience is our saftey check on behaviour. It is the one thing Jesus criticised the pharisees for destroying their conscience and having no heart.
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
1 Tim 4:2
They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.
Rom2:15