1 Peter 3:15-16 “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; (16) having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.”   Everyone has a conscience, for as we have already seen the conscience of man in an integral part of the inward man. As I have already stated, it is only in the

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Romans 2:15 “who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them.”    And so we see that from the moment that Adam sinned, that man’s conscience became an integral part of man’s being. We have seen that when they ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil that the eyes of their consciences were opened. The eyes of man’s conscience were not opened to be able to s

Hebrews 12:22-23 “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,  (23)  to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect.”   Knowing that the conscience of man is located in the physical organ of the brain helps us to understand a number of important truths about the conscience. One of the first trut

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Deuteronomy 1:39 “Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.”   Everyone born into the earth has a region in their brain where the conscience resides. That part of the brain remains dormant for all of our childhood however, and it is only activated for the first time when the child reaches puberty, which normally begins at tw

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Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”             And so of the four parts of our inner man, in this series we want to discuss the conscience of man. So what is our conscience? In order to answer that question we need to see exactly where man’s conscience originates, which means that we need to go back to the beginning when God created man, to see how the conscien

Romans 1:9 “For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.”   As we will see in this section, scripture reveals to us that our inward man is made up of four separate parts. Those parts are our spirit, our mind, our will, and our conscience. The first part of the inner man which we will discuss is the spirit. In the passage of scripture quoted above the apostle Paul speaks about the

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John 3:3-5 “Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."  (4)  Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"  (5)  Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”   There are certain truths revealed to us in the New Testament that cannot be

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1 Corinthians 14:14 “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.”      Scripture reveals to us that our spirits also require prayer in order to grow strong. I am not referring to praying with our understanding however, although I’m sure that it does help in a limited way to pray with the understanding. I am specifically referring to praying with our spirits, for as we have already seen earlier the Christian has the ability to pray both with

John 4:31-34 “In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."  (32)  But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."  (33)  Therefore, the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?"  (34)  Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”     Hearing the word of God is not the only source of spiritual food for our spirits, for Jesus mentioned another source of spiritual

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Luke 9:44-45 “Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men."  (45) But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.”    And so we come to the method of spiritual growth through meditation in God’s word. In the passage of scripture quoted above our Lord Jesus was trying to get the disciples to understand what wa

John 21:17 “He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You." Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.”   There are three methods that the believer can use to feed their spirits. The first and most common method (which we have already discussed) is to simply read the word of God, and all believers who desire to gr

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Luke 4:4 “But Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'”   As we have seen in the previous section, scripture identifies two main categories of believers i.e. babes in Christ and mature believers. And so the question is asked how do believer’s transition from being babes in Christ (where all believers start out) to becoming spiritually mature. To answer that question we can look to the natural. There are two key

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