Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 107 - The Evil Conscience
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- All right, all right, we welcome you once again to another edition of End Time Revival Ministries Us a podcast. For those of you who are listening by way of our podcast, it can be of course heard on many different outlets through many different platforms, if you will. And we also welcome those of you who are looking or viewing us by way of our YouTube channel entitle One Voice in the Wilderness. We welcome both a man of you by way of video by way of audio to this next edition of a Man series on the problem of evil, the problem of evil, And today we're going to be focusing on the evil conscience, the evil conscience of man that is innate within each and every one of us, as we've already endeavored to a man express clearly a man at the outset of the problem of evil, a man certainly it is within us. The Bible speaks of the heart of man being desperately wicked, and who can know it? And this is soul soul. So while we need am the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ applied to our hearts and to our minds, Amen, so that our conscience can be cleared and not seared. We don't want a seared conscience. We want a cleared conscience toward God and man. So Amen, that's what we're going to be focusing on today, the evil conscience. And of course, as always, just open with just a brief word of prayer. Lord, we just want to thank you for this beautiful, beautiful day that you've given us. We have life, and we have it more abundantly because of your great sacrifice on our behalf. We can live, live and have freedom and know that we have eternal life with you through you. Because of you. Thank you, Lord for the eyes that will be open, the ears that will be unstopped. We thank you for the hearts that only you can change and will change for your glory. On a majesty and Kingdom and Jesus name, we pragant thanks for all things. Amen and Amen. All right again, welcome to this another edition of our podcasts, and also of course again for those of you viewing us by way of YouTube, One Voice in the Wilderness, please become a subscriber, and of course we certainly invite you to a man share it with someone else. Amen. Again, our endeavor here is to speak the truth in love. Amen, make a man people aware. The Church of God, the people of God, and people everywhere aware, a man of the time in which we live and living, and we are certainly I mean a man grateful to be called for such a time as this. All right the evil conscience? First of all, how can a wrong be prosecuted? How can a wrong be prosecuted, or a wrong sentenced, or a wrong punished? If there is no knowledge of, if there is no understanding of, or if there's even no consciousness of what is right. If we don't know what is right, how can we say something is wrong? And before wrong can be wrong a man, there must be right, that is right, because right and righteousness precedes wrong and unrighteousness. A man and its Logically it has to be a man. Good precedes evil a man. Good must be established before evil can be in opposition uh, before evil, evil can uphose what is established to be good, established to be right. Otherwise evil would rule the day and and and good would never overcome evil. If evil is first, but evil is not first, Good is first, Good precedes evil, right precedes wrong, And of course in that regard also conscience is also first, and and then becomes UH comes rather conviction that that that that comes you can't have conviction if you don't have a conscience a man. This this is why again there's so so so grave a dainer in having the conscience a man marred or seared or completely devoid. And this is again what we must understand. That God has established what is right, and he put within man a conscience. Amen. But also within the heart of man and the understanding of man, there has to be this sense of our moral duty a man to do what is right, to have that sense of obligation a man to do what is right, and also to oppose what is wrong, what is evil a man. It has to be there, and and God put it there in each and every one of us. And whenever man becomes dull, when he becomes desensitized, when he becomes devoid of conscience a man, there there's no conviction within him concerning of what is right and wrong. There's no conviction in him concerning what is good and evil a man. And there's no hope of survival of any kind of civilization, culture, people, nation, whatever you whatever you have, that that that that can be without these uh, the elements of the conscience being in the right framework within which God has established it. If we again ignore and and make void the conscience that God has placed within us, having that moral sense of duty, opposing what is evil and standing up for what is good a man, we are in grave danger of destruction and within any civilization. And this is exactly why people who live under such tyranny uh in in a culture or in a nation uh under rule where a man there's no conscience within the leadership, there's the conscience of of of men in power. People in power has become dull and desensitized. This is why people within such uh uh uh cultures flee if if possible a man uh to uh seek shelter from uh such an oppressive state. Uh. The evil that's in the human heart when you you, when you unite, when you combine the evil that is in the human and we talked about this uh when you when it's when when it is combined with the forces of evil a man that is satanic, that is demonic, the spiritual wickedness, uh, the spiritual wickedness rather that is in the high places, the demonic. And I know there are people who don't believe in the demonic, They don't believe in these invisible powers, but they are there, and they are evident. And but when they are combined, there's evil. There's enough evil already within the heart of man. But when it is combined a man with the demonic amen, with the demonic realm, there will always be there will always be and you can this is. This is without exception. This is without exception. When the evil that is in the human heart is combined with the evil and demonic amen, there will always be oppression of the spirit. There will always be people led into bondage. They will they will be restricted in their freedoms, Their freedoms will be taken away from them, Their God given rights will be severely oppressed. Amen. And this is why in a lot of nations you have the the the oppression of religion unless you bow down to their religion. This is nothing new, by the way, nothing new about this. You go back to the a Man nation of Babylon, for example, only one little minor example, how that Amen, King Nebkneza commanded demanded that all people of all nations, of all languages, amen. And he ruled over all of the realm of the world at that time. He was the most powerful king a man living, and he demanded and commanded that everybody bowed down into worship of the religion that he a man created in this imagery and all of that. And so when you have this kind of tyranny, when you have this kind of oppression, people are going to be cast into bondage. People's rights and freedoms are going to be restricted severely. A man, and of course there's going to be idolatry, there's going to be devil worshiped. There's going to be I mean, it's it's going to be a bowing down to the powers that be and and and and and man. By the way, a man especially that is satanic, a man that is demonic, he will demand worship of himself. And this is why you have this kind of behavior. And it's still prevalent. It's not gone away, it's not gone away by any means. And and only a man uh the church, the presence of the Holy Spirit that work in this world is oppressing, is suppressing, if you will, and holding down and holding on a leash that same spirit. A man that has been a man UH historically prevalent in our world today where you have men in power demanding worship, being revered as gods, themselves, and and again only only because of of g Jesus Christ coming into this world. The power of the Cross, the power of the freedom that comes from a man being in Christ Jesus, that's the only thing. And of course again the presence of the Holy Spirit in this world. That's that's that's holding back, if you will, the leash of that same spirit that is alive and well. And again we engrave danger, I believe of this happening and it's already happening in our world today, people being led into bondage, rights being restricted and taken away a man. And the spirit of depression. That's another thing that happens. The spirit of depression comes in hopelessness, despair, despondency, destruction, and death. All of those things will soon follow. Will will, I mean guaranteed to happen whenever the evil that's in the heart of man and the evil of the demonic rem When these forces are combined, Man, this is what you're gonna have. I mean, this is the historical repetitive behavior of this kind of wickedness, of this kind of depravity that we've seen a man. And again we're engraved danger of that happening now and I believe that only and I know and not only do I believe it, I know of a certainty, of an assurance that it is the power of God that restrains this kind of evil from happening, because God is always going to protect his people. Number one, He's always going to protect his people, those that are His amen. And of course we know when as Paul writes about the Church, concerning the church and the taking away of the Church, the rapture of the Church, for those of you who believe it, don't believe it is still going to happen. After the rapture of the Church, after the taking away of the Church, after the Holy Spirit is removed from this earth, a man, you're going to see in reality, this kind of thing that happens when the man of seeing, the Bible says, is revealed. But we've seen this, We've seen this in our world historically, a man, this kind of depravity, this kind of lawlessness, this kind of wickedness a man, because first and foremost evil is bound up within the heart of a man. Amen. And the Bible again describes it as being desperately wicked. And whenever we are left to our own devices, who when we are left to our own deviancy. Nothing good will become of our deviation from a man from from straying away, a man from the good that we know that we ought to do. And by the way, you can if you have your Bible's turned with me to Romans chapter number seven. I'm going to go there just a moment, even when we are left to our own devices. And again, thank God for the restraining power, the restraining force of the Holy Spirit at work in this world. Because if God leaves us to ourselves a man and and and and and and and did not a man? Uh, hold back if you will, the lawlessness. And I mean, just look at the lawlessness we have now that's happening. Now, look at the look at the the wickedness that's happening in our world even now. And this is with God holding back. This is with God's forbearance, This is with God's goodness. This is is with with God's patience, Uh with us and tolerating us. Amen, how much more evil, how much more wickedness would there be? Lack of conscious, lack of of of of any kind of moral standards would there be if God was not by his spirit restraining much of the evil that is uh wanting within our heart. Amen. And of course we know, and this is undeniable Romans chapter number one. We have the knowledge of both good and evil. Amen. But performing what is good, doing what is right is not our preference. We've already talked about this, because we are sinful by nature, we are rebellious by nature. And I'm talking about the natural man, the nature of man, what is innate within each and every one of us. And that is why again I cannot stress it enough. That is why we need the Savior Jesus, the Christ Amen, working within us by the power of His Holy Spirit, to transform us. Amen, to conform us, Amen, And to shape and mold and make us and keep us Amen in the path that we ought to be a man and the way that we ought to be walking. In Roman Chapeter number seven, I'm gonna pick it up at verse number five. Paul, a man speaking of this conflicting nature that is within a man, us, within man, a man, the the the natural man, of course, cannot receive the things of God, neither can he know them, Bible say, because they are spiritually discerned. And Uh, what the apostle Paul is talking about here is the nature of man. And again I hasten to remind you that you know this letter, this this portion of what we're about to read, is it does not stand alone. And I don't have the time, uh certainly to to to to comment upon every aspect of this as it relates to uh, chapters one through six, before we even get to chapter seven talking about this. But nevertheless, we're going to con you know, we're going to confine it to this, this this problem of the evil that is present within us, of the problem that is in our hearts and minds that we are all aware of. Listen with Paul writes to the church. Amen, for when we were in the flesh, again, we are not to walk after the flesh. We're not to live after the flesh. The carnal man is that enmanity with God. I believe that's in Romans chapter number six. And so we're not to be carnal minded walking after the flesh. But so Paul is writing when he says, when we were in, when we were, that's passed. Any man being Christ, he becomes what new creation or new creature the old is supposed to be passing away, putting to death. That's our duty, our responsibility to mortify the deeds of the flesh. So Paul says, when we were in the flesh, the motions of sin, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Amen. And now we are delivered from the law that being dead, wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. In other words, now that we have the spirit of the living God, we don't need the letter of the law to tell us, because the spirit of the Lord now directs us, and we have the desire where we did not have the desire nor the power to obey God. Amen, prior to being born again. This is why again we need to be born again Verse Timber seven. What shall we say, then, is the law sin? No? No, no, no, God forbid? Paul says, I had not known sin, but by the law. In other words, again, as I said, from the outset, good has to come first. What we know to be right, What is good? What is moral? What is a man lawful and godly and righteous and a holy and all that has to come first. Amen. And Paul says here that I would not even have known sin. In other words, evil would not be evil. Wrong would not be wrong if there is no law. Amen. And so he says, I had not known sin, but by the law, for I had not known LUs, except the law had said thou shalt not cove it Amen, verse eight. But sin, here's the problem, ladies and gentlemen, that's in us. Amen. We inherited it. Amen, it's in our nature. Sin taking occasion by the commandment. Because now we know what is right, we know what is good, we know what is the law of God, we know what is written. Amen, we know what God commands. Sin now takes advantage, takes the occasion by the commandment, Paul says, and it wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For with thou the law, sin was dead. If there is no law, there is no sin. Amen. If there is no right, there is no wrong. If there is no good, there is no evil. But because there is the law, because there is right, because there is good, then we have the opposing a man conflicting things, that is against a man. What God has established, God established what is good. God established what is right. God established the law. Amen. And and he established it and we know it. And this is what Paul is of talking about here. He said, for I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, the commandment is not meant to bring upon death, a man bring about death. Rather, but the commandment is a man ordained. A man commission, if you will, to bring life, because by obedience to the command we live. Amen. So amen, he says, the commandment which was ordained, ordained, ordained to life a man I found to be unto death, for sin taken occasion by the commandment deceived me, and by it slew me a man. Wherefore the law is holy, the commandment holy and just and good. Was Then listen what he says, That which is good made death unto me. God forbid. But sin. Here's the problem again. This is this is why it's so important that we acknowledge, that we understand that we a man agree with God a man about what is good, what is evil, what is right, what is wrong? Amen? Because sin will take the occasion of the law all of what is good, and it will deceive you. Amen, sin will kill you. The law is Holy. Verse twelve. The commandment is holy and just and good. Amen. God forbid that that which was good made good, Amen, created good by God. It was not meant to bring death, Amen. But sin disobedience Amen, works death. The Bible says, in us by that which is good, that sin, by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Now let's look at verse fourteen. As we see here also now again the conflict of the natures, the two natures, that is in us. Again, you must be born Now, if you haven't been born again, you only have that one nature in you, that is the sin nature. And then until you're born again, Amen, and the spirit of God is in you a man, then there is a conflict within you. But before you're born again, you cannot have and you do not have again, as the natural man cannot receive the things of God. He is not a child of God, a man. The spirit of God works to bring him into repentance, to repentance too obedience. But until that time, until he a man repents, comes to repentance, he cannot have two natures. He only has one nature, and that is the sin nature. But when you are born again, there is now a conflict of two natures. The sin nature is not removed from us a man, It is not completely expelled from us, because we are a man by nature sinful creatures. But now when we are born again, we have the power, we have the ability, and we certainly have the presence of the Holy Spirit of God working in us to a man again overcome. And that's what we're going to talk about, a man before we close the series, overcoming the evil that is present with us. There's a presence of evil in this world. There's the presence of temptation, there's the presence of the wicked one that is in this world. And we can do nothing in ourselves, within ourselves to overcome that, to dispel that a man as it were, or to remove it a man. Not until a man we are taking out of this world, Not until we are removed from this world, Not until God comes back with the new Heaven and the new Earth and all of that, will evil be expelled. The presence of evil a man be gone away with amen. So in the meantime, we are living in a world that is a man filled with all kinds of evil that is present, not on again within us, but also a man from the outside force of that wicked one, Satan. And of course all of the demons listen what the Bible says verse number fourteen. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am Cardinal Paul says, sold under sin. For that which I do, I allow, not for what I would In other words, that ought and that's what I ought to be doing, the good that I ought to be doing. He's gonna clearly say here, he says, uh, that do I not? But what I hate? That do I? In other words, again, this is this is the conflict of the person of the one who is born again, who knows what he ought to be doing. A man who understands the power of sin and and and and the evil. Uh, and his conscience is right, a man toward God. And he knows that he ought to be doing what is what is right, what is good, what is lawful. But then there's a problem. There's the presence of evil. There's the presence of evil that is in our world. And again the sin nature, the atom nature that is in us that we cannot eradicate in and of ourselves. And so he says, if then I do that which I would not, He says, in other words, what I ought not to be doing. If I find myself doing what I ought not to be doing, I am consenting unto the law that it is good. In other words, my conscience is bearing witness that this is wrong. This is something I ought not to be doing. And so if I agree with that which I should not be doing, that I should not be doing it, I am then then of course consenting that god law is good, that God's law is right. I ought not to be engaging in this activity, or failing to do something that I ought to By the way, where that's also sin when we don't do what we ought to do. So then Paul says, listen verse seventeen. Now, then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing. We must people of God, we must Church of the Living God, acquiesce to this truth. In your flesh dwells no good thing amen, For to will is present with me. In other words, I know what I ought to be doing. The will is present with me. But how Paul says, to perform that which is good? I find not for the good that I would I do not. I don't do it, but the evil which I would not or should not be doing. Paul says, that I do. I find myself doing what I should not be doing. And then on the other hand, what I should be doing, I'm not doing it. I don't have the power. Something's something's rich, something's wrong, there's a confidence, there's a there's a there's there's something that's at work within me that's keeping me from doing the good that I should be doing and compelling me to do the evil that I should not be doing. So Paul says, now if I do that I would not. It is no more I that do it, but sin, the sin nature that is dwelling. He says, within me, I find in a law that and I would do good. Evil evil, evil. Listen, ladies, Nam, it's very important. Evil is present, Paul says, with me, evil is present. The presence of evil in this world is surrounding every one of us, the presence of evil. This is why we have to pray, as the Lord taught us, a man to pray, a man, deliver us from evil, Deliver us from the evil one. Amen, We're going to be delivered ultimately from the presence of evil a man. When the Lord comes back for his church, when he comes back for his people, we're going to be ultimately and forever eternally, thank you Jesus, delivered from the presence of evil. But the persuasion of evil, Amen, is still here. Definitely, the presence of evil is still here in this world. And this is why we have to pray. God keep us, and he promised to and he will. He does, he, Oh, he does. Thank you Jesus, He keeps us from evil. And even if, even when, even if, and when we sin, the Bible says, we have an advocant, and we come boldly to the throne of grace that we this is for those who are saved. Now we come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in this time of need. And God knows we need it. Amen. So then Paul says, I find in a law that when I would do good, evilish present with me. I delight in the law of God. After the inward man listen what he says, But I see another law in my members, worrying against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members, all wretched man that I am, Who shall deliver me, Who can deliver me, who can save us? Who can save us from this wretched condition that we are in. Only ladies and gentlemen, he gives the answer. Only Jesus the Christ, can say, can deliver, can set us free? Amen, from this Amen, state of bondage, because it mars the conscience of man. It will it will. Listen if you don't come, if you don't come to Jesus, if you don't come clean, if you don't listen, listen. This is so important, so important, Amen, because before man can become a reprobate a man, the law of God that is written within the heart a man of his conscience, along with by the way, the Spirit of God, which the Bible teaches all the way back in the book of Genesis, is striving with man, is working with man's forbearing with us, putting up, as it were, with us, teaching us, Amen, correcting us. The Spirit of God striving with this man to bring him into the reality of his own corruptness, and and and and and of his need for repentance and Bible tells us to teach us it is the goodness of God that leads us to repentance and man by grace, we are saved. Amen, through faith. It's not of ourselves, it's not of works, as any of us should boast. It's the gift of God. Amen. It's the goodness of God. It's the spirit of God that works a man to to bring us to the place where we ought to be or need to be a man in order to a man not come under the wrath of God. And but when a man rebels, a man against the spirit of God, that is at work both outwardly and inwardly. God works on the outside and he works on the inside. He he he allows us to experience and and go through certain things. All of it is designed to bring us to Him. So he works outwardly. God works inwardly a man to to save us from a man uh destructure, from death and again from eternal damnation. Amen. Amen, that the damnation of hell, the lake of fire. Amen. That's what God is doing. He's actively now even now in this world. A man that is again filled with evil, feel with the lack of consciousness and a rebellion. Again that is against God. God is still at work even now, a man seeking to save that which is lost, a man. But when this type of individual continues to rebel against God, a man, the spirit of God, a man, the Word of God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen. The hope that God has, the grace of God, the goodness of all of these things that God does a man to a man, compel us a man to come, a man to to life and light, a man, goodness and and and and and righteousness, all of these things. When when whenever we continue in our rebellion against God, Amen, such a person is dulling their conscience. Amen, and and and and and they are a man. Wow, it's it's it's it's it's it is again what we're seeing in our day today. Their conscience is being dull from understanding, from discerning what is good and what is evil. And again, I I just I'm, I'm I'm praying. I'm I'm praying always that. And I pray that God is, as it were, delaying his coming, not that he's going to put it is. The time will come. When the time comes. The time is God is already determined. But in the sense that God will just have mercy and save some people who are just being taken captive by the devil. They've been led away their conscience. People's conscience today is just being shredded, as it were. It's not even theirs if they have no conscience about what's good and what's evil. And again it's because and when a person persists and they're rebellion against God, they when they, Paul writes again in Roman chapter one, is why it's so difficult sometimes to compact so much of what the Bible has to say from the contextual reading of, for example, the entire letter of Romans. When they knew God, they glorified him, not as God, but became vain in the imagination, and foolish heart darkened. And they profess to know him. But the Bible says in works they deny him. And so God gives them over a man gives such a person over to a reprobate mind. Amen, because they again persist in a man, rebelling against him. Even though Amen, he appeals to them a man, he strives with them. And as he said in Genesis, my spirit will not always strive with man, in that he is flesh. Amen, he knows what he ought to do. Amen. He understands, he knows what he's good, he knows what is right, he knows what is wrong, he knows what is evil a man, and yet even though a man again, the spirit of God works within the conscience of man. Through continued rebellion against God, that conscience becomes marred, it becomes seared, It becomes devoid of what is right and what is wrong. Amen. And this comes again when we spurn the goodness of God. Amen. And and his forbearance, his his grace, his long suffering, Amen, his love. Amen. What happens is amen. Satan again does a work. Amen. He's he's given the permission. It's what the Bibles, they're given over into a reprobate mind. God turns that person over to Satan, and he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But Jesus has come. He says that you might have life and have it more abundantly. There is grave danger. Hear me, hear me, hear me. There is grave danger when the spirit of God is speaking to your conscience, speaking to your mind. When God is calling you. He said, when I call you, refuse, When I held out my hand, you disregarded you all of my law, all of my precepts. Amen. He gives a person over and you are you don't want you don't. You do not want that to happen. You do not want that to happen. So today, if you hear the voice of the Savior, if he's knocking at the door of your heart, harden not your heart. Father. We pray today that somebody somewhere will hear the voice of the Savior and will come to know that you are the true and the Living God God. You will forgive sins, you will heal, you will deliver, you will wash them, you will saturate them with your presence of God. And we pray that you do it for your namesake, for your kingdom, for your glory, for your honor, for your majesty. Amen, And a man