Sunday, February 27, 2022
BLESSED BY CONSIDERING EVERY PERSON'S CONSCIENCE
My Dear Precious Child,
The apostle Paul acknowledged that every person's conscience is unique to himself or herself. He spoke about the Jews who had the Law given to them by Moses in which Moses had to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze upon the greatness of the glow on his face after being given the Law by Me. (Exodus 34:29-33) In fact, the Jews from Israel had grown so hard hearted, callous and lacking in understanding that their minds are still so dense in spiritual insight that a veil is still over their minds, the veils not being lifted to reveal that it is only in Christ that the veil can be lifted and done away with in My new covenant of the Holy Spirit with humanity. Because the veil is still over their minds, the Law that is stored in their consciences condemns them. (II Corinthians 3:13-16)
Paul, having a burden for the Jews, his writing in his two letters contrasts those Jews with the veil over their minds with the Jews who had turned to belief in Christ in which the veil has been stripped from their minds and hearts. He wrote in his second letter to the Corinthians that to the spiritually enlightened Jews, such as himself, that My Holy Spirit is Lord of their lives instead of the old covenant Law of sin and death still being lord. He assured the readers of the second letter that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and freedom from the works of the devil and the condemnation of the Law. Paul also confirmed to the believers in Corinth that after the spiritual veil is removed from their minds, those Jews become like him, always beholding the image of Christ as in a mirror, and they were constantly being transfigured into Christ's image by the Lord who is the Spirit. (II Corinthians 3:13-17-18) The Gentiles were enjoying the same degree of liberty as the enlightened Jews, having heard the Gospel as taught by Paul and his fellow ministers.
Paul wrote that he and the other ministers, having this truth about the veil being over the minds and hearts of people, they did not get weak with discouragement. Instead, knowing that every person's conscience is unique, he wrote that the ministers had turned from disgraceful ways, from secret thoughts, feelings, desires, underhandedness, and evil methods that men hide in their thoughts through shame. He wrote that they refused to use tricks to deal with people or to handle dishonestly My Words which they stated clearly, knowing the diversity of every person's CONSCIENCE. He confessed that even if their Gospel of Christ was hidden, it was only hidden to the people who were perishing and lost because the devil, who is the god of the world, has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so that they would be prevented from seeing the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is My likeness in every way. Paul professed that it is not themselves of which the ministers teach, but that it is the Lord Jesus Christ. He wrote that it is Christ of whom I spoke that said this, "The Light that shines out of darkness has shown in their hearts illuminating My knowledge, majesty and glory that is in Jesus Christ, the real Messiah." (II Corinthians 4:2-4)
Then Paul wrote a powerful profession of faith; that being this, "Believers possess in their human bodies My Holy Spirit, a precious Treasure, so that the magnificent and exceeding greatness of My Power that is resident in them may be shown to be of Me and not of themselves." To those people who have been liberated from the Law of sin and death, the voice of My Holy Spirit in their conscience is the voice of freedom from sin, which is the works of the devil. However, to the people who are still under old covenant Law, the voice in their conscience is the devil who uses the law to condemn and shame them using the law as the judge. (II Corinthians 4:5-7)
Paul knew the diversity of the varying conditions of the conscience of every person, so he endeavored to refrain from judging anyone, knowing that My forgiveness is always available through the ministry of Christ Jesus and My Holy Spirit, who is Lord in the earth. (II Corinthians 3:17-18)
Your Father of a Pure Conscience
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