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501 – Conscience and The Renewed, Hebrews

Hebrews 13:18 “Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.”

This is the last usage of the word conscience in the book of Hebrews. It is a good target for us to get to. We're willing to be honest. A person with an honest conscience. The worst that he could do is an honest mistake, not one of intent, to harm anyone.

You cannot control people who understand righteousness. That is what religion does. Politics is also a religion. Both religion and politics are all about guilt and blame.

God and His Word are all about Grace, Mercy, and peace, and not to forget about love and forgiveness.

Conscience, Mental awareness because of previous thinking. Habit is part of that. Continually thinking about something over and over again. It sets a pattern; If it's wrong thinking. You can change it. It is challenging work to break a bad habit, but it can be done. Changing your thinking to something right, from God's Word.

2 Corinthians 10:5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

You can change your thoughts in your mind. By changing your thoughts, remember 2 Timothy 1:7

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

Changing a negative thought by replacing it with three positive thoughts, in light of The Word of God.

Paul understood the Old Testament in light of the church Epistles. Some leaders want to understand the Epistles in light of the Old Testament, which is the wrong way. The Old Testament includes the gospels.

Everything started anew on the day of Pentecost. The holy spirit, the new birth, is now available. We can live in the accomplished works of Jesus Christ. New rules: Love like Jesus did—forgiveness and no consciousness of sin.

Prophecies are never fully understood until they come to pass.

Hebrews 9:6 – 10 “Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. ⁷ But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: ⁸ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: ⁹ Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; ¹⁰ Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.”

The law kept them alive until Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9:11 – 15 “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; ¹² Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. ¹³ 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: ¹⁴ 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? ¹⁵ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”

Old Testament Believers believed in Jesus Christ's first coming, and they were looking forward to it.

Hebrews 9:28 - 10:2 “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. ² For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”

Some Old Testament Believers were as honest as the day is long. They'd say things like No, I'm not going. Moses said I can't go, I'm slow of speech. " Jonah says No, I'm not going, David said Yes, I did it. You can't fool God anyhow, so you might as well be honest with God. God can work with honest people, which is obvious from the Scriptures.

Hebrews 10:3 - 18 “ But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. ⁴ For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. ⁵ Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: ⁶ In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. ⁷ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. ⁸ Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; ⁹ Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. ¹⁰ By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: ¹² But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; ¹³ From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. ¹⁵ Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, ¹⁶ This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; ¹⁷ And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. ¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.”

The word remission is the same Greek word that is sometimes translated as " forgiveness. One of the things they did in the King James version is that they used two different English words for the same Greek word, so that they would not lose words in the English language. Thinking that if words weren't in the scriptures, they would stop using some of the English words. For example, translation, the same word, Greek word remission, and forgiveness, plus love of God, and charity, plus believing, and faith, the two English words have the same Greek word, but two different English words.

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