BLESSED BY HAVING A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, Your conscience can either condemn you or it can free you. Paul wrote to the Corinthians that he was not lying when he said that his conscience bore witness in the Holy Spirit that his concern was for the Jews and their refusal to believe that Jesus was the Christ. His heaviness of heart was for the Jews in their unbelief, not for his having grief in relation to his own relationship with Me. Paul, himself, was a Jew of the flesh and had become a child of promise when he met Jesus face to face on the road to Damascus. So he said that his conscience did not convict him of lying because he had truly become My child by believing in Christ where before he had even persecuted the people who were My children. Because of his new birth by the Holy Spirit he had become a child of the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. But still, he desperately wanted the unbelieving Jews to become born of My Holy Spirit in order to become new creations. He even said that he would even give up his being a new creation if the Jews would come to know Me intimately through My Holy spirit. (Romans 9:1-3) Out of love for his Jewish brothers of the flesh, he was burdened that they were still anticipating the coming of the Messiah. His conscience was clear about his own relationship with Me, but his heart was burdened in relation to the Jews who remained in their unbelief. In his letter to Timothy Paul stressed the importance of discerning of spirits when people came to their church. He cautioned Timothy about false teachers coming into the church teaching about legends, myths and endless genealogies which cause questions to emerge. Instead, Paul said that the believer must remain in faith, which is their leaning their entire human beings on Me. He wrote that the purpose of his commandment to people in his churches was to love, to have faith and to have a clear conscience. In other words, he was concerned that the teachers of the Law were leading people astray when the only thing that established their relationship with Me is faith. (I Timothy 1:4-5) Their fleshly relationship with their relatives from the past had nothing to do with their relationship with me. Only the faith of My children in their new birth mixed with My love gives them a clear conscience. Instead of their relying upon the religious Law which was espoused to be necessary for salvation by the religious/political Pharisees, Paul reminded the people in the church to whom he wrote letters that under My new covenant of the Holy Spirit it's My own words which I have written on their hearts that either gently accuses them or My words excuse them of sin. He wanted to make sure that his believers to whom he had ministered remained free from the Law of sin and death and embrace the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus which I had written on their hearts and minds. The old covenant Law convicted them of sin for which they had to offer sacrifices but My new covenant of the Holy Spirit in which I wrote My words on their hearts and minds convinced them that Jesus Christ had died for their sins and if they ask forgiveness there are no guilty consciences in their congregation. (I Timothy 1:4-5) Paul wanted them to understand that their fleshly kinship to prophets or kings of the past had nothing to do with their salvation so they should shun teachings about their human genealogical connections. The spiritual law of My Love covers over any accusations of sins under My new covenant of the Holy Spirit for the believer. In order to teach clearly his doctrine about the conscience of people, Paul cleared it up by saying that if a person believes that eating food sacrificed to idols is a sin, as taught by old covenant religious Law, then if that person also eats the food sacrificed to idols because he sees you, who are free from that condemnation in lieu of your being born again into a new covenant; and so, because of necessity you have eaten that food sacrificed to idols, then if that pesron also eats that food sacrificed to idols because you have influenced the person to eat the food while that person believes it's sinful to do so, then their own consciences will condemn them and they will experience the curses that come from disobeying religious Law. But to My born again, baptized in the Holy Spirit children there is no law against them eating food sacrificed to idols.(I Corinthians 8:6-13) If you, who is free from religious Law influences a person to eat the food sacrificed to idols, then you have caused that person to sin and his conscience will condemn him, while you experience no condemnation because you are free from old covenant religious Law. However, your conscience might condemn you for causing the person to sin by eating the food. It's better for you not to eat the food sacrificed to idols if there is someone present who is under religious law and your eating the food might influence him to eat and his conscience condemn him. Jesus said you sin against Christ if your eating causes another person to eat when his religious programming is that it is a sin to eat food sacrificed to idols. When you are led by My Holy Spirit, I will not lead you to do something that your conscience will cause you to do something that will condemn you. Don't let your freedom be an occasion for another person to sin. Your Father of Divine GUIDANCE