BLESSED BY THE CONSCIOUS POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS

My Dear Precious Child, When the apostle Paul was teaching about your having a clear conscience toward Me and your fellow inhabitants of the earth, in his teaching related to your having the freedom from Me to eat food sacrificed to idols he used as an example that if someone who is under religious Law does not feel free when hungry to eat food sacrificed to idols, then if you influence that person to eat the food reserved for idols you have sinned because you have influenced him or her to do something for which the person's conscience condemns him by having assured the person of his sinning against Me because of his religious beliefs. He or she feels condemned because of the religious/Jewish Law which influences his or her conscience instead of the person having the revelation from Me that you can bless the food and it's blessed. Paul wrote in his letter to the Roman believer concerning the subject this,"If any person sees you, who has spiritual knowledge, sit and eat meat that is in the idol's temple, then the conscience of the person who is weak in spiritual faith will become influenced to eat those things which are offered to idols. Then if the person's conscience condemns him or her and the person perishes because of the influence of your freedom, then you have caused the person to die by wounding the person's weak spirit. You have sinned against Christ because of your flaunting your freedom which caused the person's death." (I Corinthians 8:9-12) Paul wrote that he would not become a stumbling block to another believer, so he would eat no meat sacrificed to idols to insure that he would not make a brother offend his own conscience and die. That example shows to you the power of a person's thoughts. A person's thoughts can either condemn the person or a person's thoughts can bless the person, depending upon from where the thoughts come. Because of the religious Law of sin and death influencing the life of a person and leading to death, you must not influence anyone to do something that is against the person's weak faith or the person's conscience will be influenced by the devil to sin and then the person will be condemned by the devil and he or she might possibly die. The person's blood will be on your hands because you have influenced the person to do something contrary to the person's conscience, which allows the devil to condemn him or her and cause the person to eventually die from the devil's guilt and condemnation. (Matthew 23:35) Paul's revelation pertaining to this sin, which was not meant to cause death, is still considered sin because it gives the devil an occasion to condemn another person from your action of eating the food sacrificed to idols, whether you realize it or not, after you have read Paul's revelation in his writings to the church at Corinth. He had not meant to heap judgment upon anyone. He just felt a need to reveal an element of the devil's work in the earth through a believer's flaunting his freedom which causes a weak person in faith to sin. I am neither the tempter nor the condemner. The devil is. Therefore, My children must not in some way cause another person of weak faith to do anything that defies his or her conscience or it gives the devil an occasion to condemn the person and bring curses and then death to him or her. If you have done that, you have an opportunity to correct your careless flaunting of your freedom by your making it right with the person, confessing your sin of influencing the person to defy his or her conscience. Your Father of a Clear Conscience

BLESSED WHEN CONSCIENCE DOESN'T CONDEMN

My Precious Child, The apostle Paul wrote frequently about your conscience not condemning you and if your conscience doesn't condemn you, then you are victorious. Your conscience is able to condemn you when you are ruled by old covenant religious laws which require punishment instead of forgiveness; forgiveness being My way of handling lawbreakers. I am able to immediately forgive lawbreakers because I know that the source of all lawbreaking is the devil who tempts you to sin and then condemns you for following his temptation. It's the condemnation which eventually brings death. My forgiveness always brings Life. In Paul's confession to his Jewish captors, he professed that he always had a conscience void of offenses against Me and men. (Acts 24:15) Under the same scenario he also professed that he had lived in all good conscience before Me. (Acts 23:1) Paul wrote to the believers at Rome that I write the work of My laws (words) on the hearts of believers and that their conscience also identifies those words as Truth. When they have thoughts, speak words or do actions, then their thoughts either accuse them or excuse them depending on if My words are written on their hearts or if the devil uses old covenant law what is written in books that they can recall which condemns them. If old covenant Law is relied upon as a basis for their conscience to either excuse or accuse them, then their thoughts will always be accusatory. If My new covenant words of love are written in their minds and hearts, then their sins will be excused and forgotten. (Romans 2:15) Paul used eating food sacrificed to idols as an example. He wrote that when you are rooted in grace and have no laws in your mind that accuse you of the offense of eating food dedicated to idols, then if you do eat the food you are neither accused or excused because it's not a sin to you. However, He also wrote that if you eat food sacrificed to idols and someone near by sees your liberty, if that person eats the food sacrificed to idols when his conscience is filled with old covenant laws which condemn him for eating that particular food, then he is condemned by his conscience for eating what was free for you to eat. You must be careful of your choices under those circumstances because if your liberty is the reason for somebody whose conscience will accuse him for eating food sacrificed to idols is encouraged by you to eat the food, then you are a stumbling block to that person, causing him to sin because his conscience will accuse him which will result in the devil's condemnation which can bring death. So you have sinned against the person by damaging his conscience that is so weak as to believe what the Jewish religious Law says about eating food sacrificed to idols. Therefore, if your eating food sacrificed to idols causes another person to fail to follow his conscience, then it's better to never eat the food again in case you cause another person to defy his conscience. ( I Corinthians 8:12) Paul wrote to Timothy that he must, as a minister of Mine, hold onto the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. If your freedom to do something causes another person to do something that he considers sin, then you have contributed to his sinning. It's not worth it for you to flaunt your freedom before a person who is weak in conscience, because you have influenced him or her to sin and caused his conscience to condemn him. Love does not cause another person to sin by bypassing his own conscience. Love encourages another person to follow his or her own conscience. Your Father of Love and Consideration

BLESSED BY NEW COVENANT WISDOM WHICH CREATE A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, "For the law (words) of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made Me free from the law (words) of sin and death. " (Romans 8:2) The apostle Paul, who had a close one-on-one relationship with Me through the Holy Spirit, had originally been a dedicated student of Jewish law, to which he referred as the law of sin and death. When he met Christ on the road to Damascus and spend almost three years becoming a dedicated student of My new covenant which I had instituted through My Holy Spirit with humanity, Paul was enthralled with the benefits and rewards that I promised to the believers who embrace My Holy Spirit and His Words of Life. While Paul had been a dedicated student of Jewish Law, his mind was blinded to the prophesies in the old covenant of sin and death that concerned the eventual coming into the earth of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit where I came to live inside of humans and made their bodies My temple of the Spirit in the earth. However, when Paul spent those three years in the dessert with only Me, he allowed Me to open his mind to the truths that were contained in the prophesies spoken by the old covenant prophets. After his conversion of being born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit, after Paul experienced 100% of the benefits of My new covenant of the Holy Spirit, he realized the bondage that the old covenant had held on him. So Paul's warnings to the believers about avoiding false prophets were very often very emphatic because of his having experienced exchanging My freedom in the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus for the bondage of the old covenant of sin and death. He had experienced the results which followed from obeying both covenants, and he knew the advantages of knowing Christ Jesus and His covenant of Life. When Paul wrote, "There is, therefore, now no condemnation" -- no having been adjudged guilty of wrong -- "for those who are in Christ Jesus who live not after the dictates of the flesh, but instead live after the dictates of the Holy Spirit," he was speaking from experience, not merely from theories derived from the teachings of somebody else. (Romans 8:1; John 3:16-18) For over 30 years previously he had trusted in the law of sin and death for his salvation from evil but found that it was not possible. When He met Christ on the road to Damascus and spent three years only with Him and My Holy Spirit, consulting no other human being, Paul experienced real freedom, love and joy and therefore has been able to project the truths of the new covenant to My children. His warnings were strong and bold to Roman believers concerning false prophets and their reliance on the law of sin and death which they were teaching to the new Christian believers because he remembered the condemning bondage that had controlled his own thoughts when he was previously committed to the law of sin and death when his CONSCIENCE had condemned him for not being able to obey all of the religious laws. He wrote to the Romans believers that as a good teacher he spoke Truth in Christ, not lying, because his good conscience was confirmed by the Holy Spirit. In other words, his conscience spoke thoughts to him that brought freedom to him from Me instead of his thoughts condemning him for not being able to keep all of the laws of sin and death, as had happened when he was loyal to the old covenant of sin and death. (Romans 9:1) Paul wrote that they must be subject to the civil laws of their country because obeying civil laws keep them out of prison. However, religious instructions must come from Me through the Holy Spirit so that My children are not condemned by laws that were supposed to be civil laws but instead had become religious laws, which is what the Jewish laws had become and therefore they were fleshly instead of spiritual. (Romans 13:5) So the civil laws were supposed to have the authority to keep peace among people, but they were punitive, always insisting on punishment instead of forgiveness. But Paul said that civil laws also have the power to condemn instead of having the power to rehabilitate through forgiveness like My words from the Holy Spirit which come from spiritual truths. He wrote that there is no condemnation for My children who follow My guidance from the Holy Spirit who lives inside of them. He is the One Who speaks Truth and Forgiveness instead of speaking condemnation and guilt in your thoughts. Guilt and condemnation from the devil kill people but My words from My Holy Spirit bring Life. Paul vehemently objected to false prophets placing new believers in his churches under the laws of sin and death from which he knew they would experience bondage when the laws condemned them instead of freeing them. Paul did not want the believers to whom he ministered to become cursed in their lives from having a guilty conscience which brings death. He wanted the believers to hear from My Holy Spirit who speaks Life and peace to their mind. (I Thessalonians 5:23) Your Father of Truth and Guidance

BLESSED WHEN YOUR CONSCIENCE ABSOLVES YOU

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul was taken before the religious council in order for them to declare whether he had preached against the Jewish religion and the temple since he had become enlightened by the Holy Spirit and Jesus on the road to Damascus. Of course he had on occasion, but his defense was that he had always been an observer of religious Law, obeying it to his utmost best. However he was a Roman citizen. During his inquisition before the religious council of the Sanhedrin, who were the religious elders of the temple, he told them that he had lived before Me, doing his duty with a perfectly good CONSCIENCE all the time and even up to that day as a citizen, a true and loyal Jew. Ananias, the head of the council, didn't like Paul's answer and he ordered the people close to Paul to strike Paul on the mouth. Paul said to Ananias that I, as God, was going to strike him, and Paul called Ananias a whitewashed wall. Then Paul said that Ananias had judged Paul in accordance with the religious Law, and yet Ananias had ordered Paul stricken which he knew was in defiance to the Law. In that reply of Paul to Ananias, is the truth behind having your conscience condemn you. Paul insinuated that when the human mind is filled with unenlightened religious Law, those tenets of the Law will not only condemn you but will also cause you to condemn other people who do not observe the Law. So Paul told the council and Ananias that his conscience had been right toward Me all the time because his CONSCIENCE had not convicted him. (Acts 23:1) Paul had laid aside all of his loyalty to the Jewish Law which would have condemned him if he had remained bound to it. Instead, Paul learned to allow My Holy Spirit to be his Guide and his Lord.(I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3:17-18) Later when Ananias came to the region where Felix was the judge, Paul had been arrested and he brought Paul's case up to that judicial authority, surmising that Felix had more authority over Paul than he did. Felix called upon Paul to defend himself and Paul spoke with respect to Felix, telling him how loyal that he had always been to religious Law and that he always had a CONSCIENCE void of offense toward Me and toward other people. (Acts 24:14-16) Paul also professed his belief that there was to come a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous. Felix judged Paul by putting off his trial and ruling that Paul was to be under the authority of a centurion, having some liberties, and he told the centurion to allow Paul to continue in his ministering to the needs of the people and serving Felix. Later in Paul's writings while he was under arrest he explained fully in his letter to the Roman believers about the commandment of Jesus Christ that they were not to judge or condemn another person or they would be themselves judged by the same standard. (Matthew 7:1-5) In Paul's letter to the Roman believers he amplified that commandment of Jesus Christ. He wrote that in passing judgment on other people that they condemn themselves because they have done the same things that they are condemning other people for doing. (Romans 2:1-3) In explaining the difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, he wrote that even though the Gentiles did not have a moral compass like the religious Law was to the Jews, he explained that they often do what the Law requires because the inclination to do good is written on their hearts. In that instance, Paul wrote that they are a Law unto themselves since they don't have any written religious Law, but there are laws which are written on their hearts and in their minds. Their CONSCIENCE tells them the difference between right and wrong so their thoughts will either be approving or condemning, which means that their actions will either be accusatory or forgiven. (Romans 2:14-15) The Holy Spirit is the One who writes My laws on their heart. He explained about the CONSCIENCE of the Jews by reminding them that if they are a Jew and depend upon the religious Law to save them by their knowing and understanding the Law, their being a guide to the spiritually blind people, their correcting the foolish people, and their being a teacher of childish men, he asked the Jews if they have taught themselves also not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to worship idols and not to rob temples for things of their own use. He said they brag about their religious Law yet they break the Law. (Romans 2:17-23) The difference between the Gentile believers and the Jews is that the Jewish Law is used by the devil to condemn people, condemning themselves as well as others. Since the Gentiles do not have written laws, only having My words written on their minds and hearts, their consciences can more effectively excuse and defend them because My words are written on their hearts and they know they are forgiven. There is no condemnation, only rehabilitation. It was for that very reason that the false prophets were determined to bring the Gentile believers under their Jewish religious Law, because then the people would have religious laws in their minds, and the devil would have written Laws with which to tempt the people and then to judge the people instead of the Gentiles continuing in the new covenant of the Holy Spirit and becoming forgiving and rehabilitated instead of their judging other people and themselves according to Jewish Law which brings them under condemnation from hell. When the devil can tempt you and condemn you using Jewish Law, then your own CONSCIENCE will often judge you guilty and condemned if you are under Jewish Law instead of your being under the Law of Liberty in Christ Jesus in which you are forgiven and deemed a child of Mine by the Holy Spirit living inside of you. Like Paul wrote to the Romans, the religious Law of the Jews was given to be the rules and regulations for the flesh of Jewish people and their civic nation, but My children of promise of the new covenant are the ones who have My Seed of the Holy Spirit living inside of them to be their guide and their salvation. (Romans 9:8) It is the power of My Holy Spirit which enables My children of promise to heed My words and follow My guidance. "There is no condemnation for My children of promise who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the dictates of the flesh but who follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit." (Romans 8:1) Your Father of A Better Covenant of the Holy Spirit

BLESSED WITH A RIGHTEOUS CONSCIENCE

My Dear Precious Child, The apostle Paul wrote that you must not let your conscience condemn you or you will not reign in life as an overcomer over evil. As a Gentile believer in Jesus Christ, if you have allowed a false prophet to poison your mind with old covenant Laws, then you will not allow other people the freedom that you have in being free from the curses that come from your trying to be righteous because of obeying Jewish Law. If you add old covenant Law to your being a child of Mine, instead of forgiving people for breaking old covenant religious laws, you will hold them accountable and place them back under the laws of sin and death if you believe false prophets. In doing that, you also place yourself under the old covenant laws of sin and death instead of your continuing in Christ's words of the covenant of the Holy Spirit which place you under the words of Life that Christ Jesus taught to you. In the same way, your being placed under the laws of sin and death by the false prophets will condemn you with the religious laws of the Pharisees and your conscience will condemn you with the thought of death, which is the result of being under old covenant Law of sin and death. Paul amplified this truth when he wrote to the Galatians that they must do this: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherein Christ has made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."(Galatians 5:1) Paul wrote those wise words to the Gentile Christians in Galacia who had fallen under the Jewish laws of sin and death by being convinced by Judeo-Christian believers who had come into their church teaching that they just be circumcised in order to be whole in My eyes. Nothing could be further from the truth. The circumcision of which I often spoke, and which Jesus Christ amplified, related to the circumcision of your heart when you are born of My Holy Spirit. The circumcision that I taught the Jews to observe was only a prophesy of the coming of Jesus Christ who would circumcise My children spiritually and place My Holy Spirit into their own hearts. It was never meant to justify My children to Me. Yet, some of My new covenant Galatian believers became poisoned by false prophets to believe that they had to become physically circumcised in order to complete their new birth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Circumcision is only good for physical cleanliness, not for spiritual cleanliness. The apostle Paul had been a loyal Jew, a man who was loyal to Jewish law even to the place of persecuting and even murdering My newly born again children. After he met Christ Jesus on the road to Damascus, he became a new creature in Christ, born of the Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit. Then He set Himself apart from humanity and communicated only with My Holy Spirit for almost three years. It took that long for My Holy Spirit to deprogram Paul from dependency upon the laws of sin and death which had been his moral compass from birth. He eventually understood the words of Christ Jesus who said that you cannot put the new wine of the Holy Spirit into old wine skins of the old covenant laws of sin and death because the wine skins will split and the wine will be ruined, which was My way of speaking about trying to combine the old covenant laws of sin and death with My new covenant words of forgiveness and New Life in Christ Jesus through their inheriting My blessings and rewards in their lives on earth. In Paul's revelation to the Galatian believers, he wisely wrote that if they willingly or ignorantly became circumcised after being born again of the Holy Spirit, it would not profit them anything positively; and, in fact, it brought curses upon their lives because by becoming circumcised they placed themselves under all of the Jewish law and its requirements. If they broke even one law, then they opened themselves up to the devil to condemn them to curses and death. If those Galatian believers, who were Gentiles, went under old covenant laws, then the benefits that come from knowing Me through Christ Jesus would not continue into their lives. (Galatians 5:2) Why would anyone choose to return to bondage to religious laws when there is liberty and freedom in believing in Christ Jesus and His crucifixion and death on the cross for the forgiveness of their sins? Some of the Galatian Christians has been deceived and influenced by Jewish Christians who could not lay aside their Laws in exchange for receiving liberty and freedom from bondage to their written Law which is the law of sin and death. To those people who try to slide back into old covenant law in order to more efficiently know Me, My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that they have fallen from My grace by trying to be justified by the Law again. He wrote that Christ and His sacrifice for the sins of the world has no freeing effect on the backsliders who slide back into religious Law. (Galatians 5:4-5) My Spirit wrote through Paul that the Galatians had been running the race well. He asked who had hindered them that they should not obey the Truth? He professed that the persuasion that caused them to return to old Laws did not come from Me who had called them to freedom from old covenant bondage. (Galatians 5:8-9) He even wrote that just a little leaven will poison the whole lump, speaking about each individual person's spirit, soul and body, as well as the entire church. Jesus Christ had warned His disciples not to add to or detract from His words. He revealed to Paul that when the Jewish Christians encouraged the bondage free Galatians to be circumcised or in other ways to depend upon salvation to come from obeying old covenant rituals, laws and traditions, he wished that the knife might slip and cut them off from the congregations. He reminded the Galatians that if they continued to walk in the guidance of the Holy Spirit that they would not fulfill the lust of the flesh in seeking what the false prophets said was a more perfect way of salvation by incorporating Jewish religious Laws into their being justified by faith. My Holy Spirit accomplishes complete justification in Christ in the new covenant of the Holy Spirit which provides salvation by faith in Jesus Christ with no additions from the old covenant of sin and death. The people who had added portions of the law of sin and death to their New Birth and their being baptized in the Holy Spirit, they found that their consciences condemned them by the dictates of Jewish Law instead of their being forgiven and rehabilitated by the words of Jesus Christ in the new covenant of Life in Christ Jesus. Jesus had exemplified that grace while on the cross when He asked Me to forgive His murderers because they didn't know what they were doing. That is true Love, to forgive your human killers. If Jesus had been under Jewish Law, He would have demanded that His killers be punished, as the Law requires. But under the Law of Spirit and Life, Jesus acted out of love and forgiveness for his killers. Paul listed the personality traits of people who are led by the Holy Spirit as being love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, mercy, longsuffering, patience. faith, meekness and temperance. Jesus exemplified those character traits in everything that He did. When you are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit, then those are your character traits. My Holy Spirit wrote through Paul that if you are led by the Holy Spirit, then you are not under the Law of sin and death. Instead, you are under the Law of Life in Christ Jesus. There is nothing under the Law of sin and death that improves the words of Life that came out of the mouth of Jesus Christ. All the Law of sin and death does for My born again believer is condemn you in your conscience which brings curses and death to you. Heed Paul's warnings to the Galatian Christians and do not succumb to any false prophet who endeavors to bring you into bondage to sin by providing condemnation in your conscience by using old covenant Law as an adjunct way to salvation. There is no adjunct way. There is only New Life in Jesus Christ and My Holy Spirit. Your Father of the Perfect Salvation

BLESSED BY THE INNER LIGHT

My Dear Precious Child, When Jesus walked in the earth and was thought by many people to be the Messiah, there were controversies related to that belief because of His actions toward obvious sinners according to religious Law. His dealing with the woman who was caught in adultery is a prime example. According to religious Law she was supposed to be stoned to death in the city streets by the priestly hierarchy of the temple. In fact, that is why the Pharisees and scribes had brought her to Jesus, to test Him to see if He would obey their religious Laws. They reminded Jesus Christ about the law, hoping to accuse Him of refusing to follow the Laws in order to prove Him of being a phony instead of the Messiah. Instead of accusing the woman of adultery, as the hypocritical Pharisees expected, Jesus knelt on the ground and wrote with his finger in the sand the sins of the Pharisees and scribes. Upon rising from the ground Jesus said that if there was a person in their midst who was not a sinner also, let him be the person to throw the first stone in the woman's stoning. Each Pharisee and scribe, upon seeing what Jesus wrote in the sand with his finger, became stricken with a guilty CONSCIENCE himself and they began leaving the expected "stoning" one by one, the oldest to the youngest. In His conversation with the woman, Jesus revealed His opinion about sinning by asking the woman where all of her accusers had gone, seeing that there were no men left there to condemn her. Jesus called attention to that fact, that all of her accusers had left the scene of what was considered to become a possible stoning of the woman who was accused. What happened next was amazing to the observers according to Jewish Law. Jesus Christ, Himself, said to the woman who was obviously caught in adultery that He also did not accuse her either. He also told her to go and not to sin anymore. Then Jesus turned and addressed the crowd of people saying, "I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in darkness but will have the Light of Life in him or her." In that statement He disclosed that there was no darkness in Him, that there was only the Light of Life. The hypocritical Pharisees who remained told Jesus that He was giving His own opinion, not the opinion of the Jewish Law. Jesus answered that even if He did speak from His own authority, His testimony was true and reliable. He told them that He knew where He came from and where He was going but they didn't know Him or where He was going. Then Jesus Christ revealed to the hypocritical Pharisees and scribes that they judged according to their flesh but that He judged no person. He said that even if He did judge, He said that His judgment was sound because the Father sent Him and that the Father was in Him. He reminded those Pharisees that the Law says that the testimony of two witnesses made a testimony valid. Jesus said that it might be apparaent that He testified on His own, but that it was really the testimony of the Father who sent Him who was a witness, too; to which a Pharisee asked Jesus where was His Father? Jesus answered that they didn't know Him so they couldn't know Me. He assured them that if they truly knew Him that they would have known Me, His Father, as well. This entire scenario took place in the Treasury in the temple, but nobody arrested Him because the time had not come for him to be crucified. He told them again that He was going away and they would be looking for Him. He told them that they would die in their sins and where He was going it was not possible for them to come, to which they asked among themselves if He was going to kill himself? Jesus told them that they were from below and He was from above; that they were of the world and He was not; to which they asked who he was, anyway, Jesus said that He was wasting His breath to try to explain because He was whom He said He was from the beginning. His gracious, merciful treatment of the woman who was caught red handed in the act of adultery was diametrically opposite to the way the Pharisees, scribes, chief priests, priests and elders of the temple treated women who were adulterers. Forgiveness was not even considered because mercy was not in their religious Law. To be good Jewish citizens and a good religious official, they must follow the Law and its punishment. The Jewish law was for the flesh. Jesus Christ showed that My attitude toward all sin was to forgive the people who committed the sins. Jesus knew that sin was committed by people in answer to the temptations of the devil, so the guilty entity was the devil and his demons. In speaking to the woman to go and sin no more, there was so much power in His words that she began to believe and follow Him. The religious laws punish people but Jesus Christ and I forgive people and give My children the power to be rehabilitated. In a small capsule, that's the difference between the religious old covenant and the new covenant of the Holy Spirit. It's all identified in Jesus' treatment of the woman caught in adultery. Your Father of Love and Forgiveness

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