The Conscience: God's Silent Witness Within

We explore how God reveals Himself through our conscience, providing an internal moral compass that leaves us without excuse before Him. This divine law written on human hearts serves as both witness and judge, regardless of whether someone has heard Scripture or not.

• Our conscience functions as God's moral radar, accusing or excusing actions according to divine standards
• The natural human heart is corrupted and inclined toward sin rather than God
• Repeatedly rejecting God's revelation through conscience leads to a progressive hardening
• Romans 1 describes the dangerous descent: suppressed truth → darkened heart → reprobate mind
• A seared conscience becomes unable to respond to the Holy Spirit's conviction
• Despite our natural corruption, God offers spiritual transformation through Christ
• Every person faces a critical choice: respond to conscience's testimony or continue suppressing it
• The next time conscience speaks may be the final opportunity to respond to God's grace

If you've felt conviction in your heart while listening, don't ignore it. The Holy Spirit is calling you to Christ, where your conscience can be cleansed and your heart transformed. Respond today – tomorrow is not promised.

John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
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Chapters

• 0:43 Introduction to God's Revelations
• 4:21 God's Law Written on Hearts
• 8:40 The Corrupted Human Heart
• 15:01 The Descent into Darkness
• 23:21 Conscience in Everyday Life
• 31:33 Final Call to Salvation
• 34:36 Personal Testimony and Warning

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:22

Hello and welcome to this another edition of Words from the Word of God. Thank you all so much for joining us in this next broadcast, in this current series of messages, without excuse, the witness of the revelation of God unto mankind. Yesterday, or might I say, excuse me, might I say in the last broadcast, which was yesterday, the 3rd of August, we dealt with how God has revealed himself in creation, as stated there in verses 18 through 20 of Romans, chapter 1, 20 of Romans, chapter 1, and how we, as humanity, are left without excuse if we deny that remarkable revelation of God through creation, because the heavens, as we found out in the Psalm, chapter 19, declare the glory of God. So we are left without excuse to deny the very existence of God, deny the very power, his saving power, the gospel of Jesus Christ. Might I say this to deny any of these four, any of these four revelations of god, to deny any of them, is to deny god. That's why it's so significant that we look at each one of these separately, because it's very significant, very strong warnings come from denying any revelation of God that he has given unto us. As we dealt with the four yesterday, we began to deal with these four yesterday, number one being God's revelation to mankind through creation. Today we'll deal with God's revelation to the conscience of mankind as his law is written upon our hearts. As the Lord wills and the Holy Spirit leads. The next broadcast will deal with how God reveals himself through his living and powerful eternal word and then, finally, as the Holy Spirit leads, we will look into how he has revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ, god incarnate, god in the flesh, the Son of God. He may die in our place, die in our place at a place called Calvary, and pay our sin debt in full and shed his every drop of his precious blood in the ground there, that day that he might redeem us. That will be our final revelation of God.

Speaker 1: 3:21

Now, don't get me. Don't get me wrong. There are many ways that God reveals himself throughout Scripture through dreams, through voices, through prophecy, through, however you want to look at it. Through Scripture, you can find many ways of how God is revealing himself, how he is at Jehovah, the Lord, god, the becoming one. He has become to us everything that we need him to be. He is God, elohim, the God of creation, adonai, the Lord of lords, king of kings, so on and so forth.

Speaker 1: 4:00

But as we begin today, we want to look again at God's revelation to the conscience of mankind, god's law written on the heart. God's law written on the heart, because we must understand, even where no preacher has preached, no Bible has been opened, and norelenting is the voice of conscience divinely inscribed on every heart of mankind by God himself, and that voice declares us guilty and without excuse if we deny this revelation of God to us. The Word of God, join with me here in Romans, chapter 2, where Scripture finds us again today in chapter 2. Yesterday we looked into chapter 1, verse 18 through 20. Today we'll look at chapter 2, verse 14 and 15. The Word of God tells us here. The Word of God tells us here, for when the Gentiles Gentiles, or when you see Gentiles or Jew, or Greek or Jew, when you hear the words Gentile in Greek, it's speaking of non-Jewish mankind For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law, are a law unto themselves which show the work of the law written in their hearts. Their conscience also listen, our conscience also bearing witness of this and our thoughts and their thoughts, but meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. May the Lord bless the reading of his word to our hearts today. These verses thunder with truth. You know, many will never hear a sermon, but we all will stand in judgment one day. So how can that be just considering a holy and righteous God? Because he has written his moral law in our hearts, not just in scripture, but he's imprinted it very well, inscribed it upon each heart and soul. And when I talk about heart, I'm not speaking as scripture talks about heart. It's not speaking about the muscle that beats in our chest. It's talking about the inner, deepest, inner recesses of our soul and spirit. We'll get into that in just a moment. But the conscience is not shaped by our culture. It's not shaped by what man tells us is right or wrong. Yes, many want to listen to that, but we can't deny that it is sealed by a creation. It tells us this is right and this is wrong. Just as Adam and Eve, as they were created, were placed in the garden, they were told not to take of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or else they would die. They knew, or they were told, in their holiness with God, in their communion that there is a right way, there's a right tree and there's a wrong tree, but either way they had the choice to make that choice. So we all have the innate responsibility to know what is right and what is wrong, because it's been written upon our hearts the moral law of god, and it will be the silent witness at the great day of judgment. The word here in verse uh, excuse me, I've lost my place here, so let me pick back up the, the. The word conscious, as we deal with it in our heart, as referred to here, accuses or excuses, acting as god's moral radar. It is also. It echoes from eden calling mankind back to the god we've tried to forget. So many have tried to forget him, you know. First, 1 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 2, tells us speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron as we begin to sin and have unrepentant sin in our life and we continue to deny the very revelation of God. It cauterizes and can cauterize the conscious, leaving us numb like a nerve burned beyond feeling. The soul becomes death to God and his warnings after a certain period of time We'll get into the reprobate mind here in just a few moments and the seared conscience. But to understand conscience as it is referred to in scripture, how it is alluded to, how it is meant here in scripture, we must grasp the condition of man's heart. Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse 9, tells the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? You know, god, in his remarkable ways, has told us everything that we need to know to survive in this world. But there is one fact we cannot live apart from him If we continue to reject his revelations, if we continue to neglect his messages. The more we do that, the more our hearts are ready to seek for above all things, and desperately wicked. So if we continue down that road, as the Holy Spirit convicts, upon the preaching of God's word, upon the revelation of God in creation, upon the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, upon the revelation of God in his word, there's probably not a soul alive that has not heard. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. But genesis, chapter 6, verse 5, speaks of the evilness of the heart. Right before the flood, and god saw that the wickedness of men was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, continually. Man's heart and this is the fact of these scriptures, man's heart is not naturally inclined to God. Romans, chapter 5, verse 12, tells us that death and sin entered into the world and all are dead because we inherit a sin nature, that meaning that our heart is naturally inclined to be enemies of God, to be enemies of his word, to be enemies of his or rejecters of his word, to be enemies of his or rejecters of his revelation. It is bent toward sin. Our heart is. Jeremiah says it right there. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, desperately wicked. Who can know it? It is beyond even our greatest understanding how evil and how our heart is bound down in iniquity, the most egregious thing, is considered to mankind. But our heart is bent towards sin. It's not necessarily bent toward God. And so, though the conscience warns this is right or wrong, the heart wars against it. Paul would say that his flesh, what his fleshly state, his sin nature, wars against the spirit. You know, our heart many times will tell us that something's wrong or right, but our mind will tell us something else. Our conscience, our intellect, all of that's involved in the conscience and in the heart, our emotions, and so on and so forth. But Jesus tells us of the man, speaking of the heart of man. Man, as we must grab the corruption of our heart. Jesus says in mark, chapter 7, verse 21 and 22. He says for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness and an evil eye, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. The conscience screams no, but the heart whispers yes, and Satan knows this. He knows that we are more inclined to sin than our natural man is inclined to God and he has no problem leading a wayward soul, an unrepentant soul, down the path to where they become seared in their conscience and they are turned over to a reprobate mind, that is, a heart and mind that cannot no longer be reached by the Holy Spirit. Yes, you will hear the message, yes, you will hear of the grace of God, you will hear of Jesus Christ, but your conscience cannot be made aware of that any longer, because you've You've gone so long in unrepentant and rejection, unrepentant sin and rejection, that you no longer can hear the voice of God calling you unto salvation. And when the heart wins, the soul descends further into rebellion. It's a fact of Scripture. Just study through the Word of God and you'll see that come to light. A fact of scripture. Just study through the word of god, you'll see that come to light. Romans, chapter 1, speaks of a descent into darkness. If you will look at verse 18 says for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness. Step by step, god reveals how he deals with conscious deniers. You know, we want to natural man wants to hold down. They don't want to hear the truth of God's word. They don't want to hear about sin. They don't want to hear about the eternity in hell and the lake of fire. They don't want to hear that one day they will be judged for the way they live. So they suppress that truth. They hold it down. They hold it back and ignore it and continue to reject it. Step by step, god reveals how he deals with conscience deniers. If we look on down in Romans, chapter 1, verse 21 and 22,. Read there with me. The word of God says because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. What is a fool? In Scripture, we said it yesterday the Word of God tells us that the fool has said in his heart there is no God. So there's a continual process here that the heart goes through. So we know God has revealed himself to us through creation and we know that God is the supreme, eternal God, the God Almighty, elohim, the God of creation. And many deny that we are created. Many fall into the rut of evolutionary theories and so on and so forth, and that's nothing more than hogwash evolution and it's not worth us giving us in our time to talk about. Because it's such foolishness, because it denies the revelation of god, it denies the power of God to create, it denies the very power of God to save Any, any, any rejection of any revelation of God is sin. And the longer you go on rejecting that revelation I can't say this enough the more you become numb to the preaching and hearing of his word and his revelations, the more you reject those revelations, the dimmer your view gets in your heart, the dimmer it goes and goes and we see the progress here of the downfall. Therefore, because they suppress the truth and they professed themselves to be wise and became full and glorified him not as god. Wherefore verse 24, wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanliness through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. Let's read on down. Who changed the truth of god into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator, who was blessed forevermore. Amen for this cause. Listen again. We've already heard god gave them up for this cause. God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into which is that against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of a woman, burned in their lust one toward another, working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meek. And even as they did not like to retain God, they didn't want to accept God as God. They worshiped the creature more than the creator. They completely leave out his word, leave out his revelation. So then we go on. He's been giving them up. He's giving them up now. We'll hear right here. He gives them over. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, god gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, foolishness, full of malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who, knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. Listen closely here in verse 1 of chapter 2. Therefore, thou art inexcusable, o man. Listen closely here in verse 1 of chapter 2. God gave them up. God gave them up to uncleanness. We see this running rampant in our society today, men with men, women with women. An abomination to God, might I say. Many will not speak on it, but we're going to talk about the truth of God's word. Today, my friends, you are dangerously close to being turned over to a reprobate mind and that, my friend, is the point of no return. The conscience, once gentle and convicting, becomes silent. The mind, once redeemable, becomes reprobate, rejected, abandoned and unreachable. Oh, how sad it is. This is the point of no return, my friend. God give them up. God give them up. God gave them over to a rep and bake mind to do those things, it's unseemly, which our society runs rampant with today Men with men, women with women, lusting after their flesh, lusting after each other, their own sex. And that is not what we were created to do. Man was woman was created to be the help beat for man, not subservient, but to come alongside and help him. And they the first marriage. We see there, genesis, chapter two man with man. Excuse me, man with woman. Excuse me, I got caught up in that soapbox for a minute, but man and woman, that is how we were created. That is the sanctioned, holy relationship between human beings, that man is with woman, man is with woman. Adam would say of Eve. She is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone. But that was the divine plan of god, with a one man with one woman. But because of their deny god, because they what did it say right there, even they did not retain god. It says for in verse 21, when they knew god, they glorified him not as god, neither were thankful. Because when you deny God's revelation, you're saying God, I don't need you, I don't need anything you have for me, I don't need your revelation through creation, I don't need the truth of your word, I don't care what you put upon my heart, I don't care if you tell me what's right or what's wrong, I'm not going to listen. And then, finally, the final rejection comes when you reject the Savior, the revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. We'll get into those later, but we must understand how this applies to us in real life, because it echoes the conscience. A child buys and hides his face that's conscience. He hides his face in shame when he's caught. A man cheats and lies awake haunted by what he's done that's conscience. A woman watches the sunrise in emptiness, gnawing with the emptiness gnawing at her from inside, gnawing with the emptiness gnawing at her from inside. And both men and women. Oftentimes you've been in that place where you're so empty inside and you're searching everything in the world to fill that void, yet coming up empty every time. And then you end up staring up at the sky and wondering how I got to this place of emptiness. And this emptiness inside, this void that I cannot be filled, is gnawing at me and it's bringing me down and I can't hear, I have no hope, I have no help. There's no one to help me. But they fell at that point to cry out to God, but the conscience in the whole time is excusing and accusing at the same time one with another. Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 1, says he that being often reproved, as often convicted, hardeneth his neck and shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When you refuse God and you've been turned over to that rough and baked mind, you're without remedy when you deny the existence of God, when you worship the creature, and you know it kills me. When people say I'm an atheist, well, there's no such thing as an atheist, because something is your God, whether it's money, whether it's your house, whether it's your nice, fancy car, shiny red car, you worship something we were made to worship, we were created to worship something. So if God of creation, the true God, the one and only God, is not our center of our hearts, then our heart is always ruled by something else. And the catch-all of catch-alls is if you say that you don't have a God, you're lying, because those that the gospel is hid from Paul would say if our gospel is hid, it is hid from them that are blinded by the God of this world. You're following right in his pathway that he wants for you to spend eternity with him in the lake of fire. So that's what Satan wants. But you're following a God somewhere in your life. You're following a God, but the word of God tells us in Romans, chapter 2, verse 16, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to the gospel, that's what it's all about. You may silence the voice inside, but it will testify against you before the throne one day. All judgment is given unto the Son and his judgment is right. His judgment is right. John 3, 36 tells us he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him, folks. This is very significant because the revelation of God inideth on him, folks. This is very significant because the revelation of God in our conscience. Because of that, if our conscience still speaks, there is hope. It says Hebrews 10, verse 22,. Speaking about that hope, as long as we have a conscience and we haven't been turned over to a reprobate mind through our rejection. Do you see how serious that is? Do you see how serious that is? Do you see how serious that is? If you feel convicting in your heart through this message, don't blame me for getting your toe stepped on. That's the Holy Spirit speaking to your heart today, saying that you need Jesus, and when you reject that, you reject the hope. When you reject him and his gospel, you're rejecting the help. He is the hope of the hopeless and the help of the helpless. Eternal, the son of God. But if you notice, it all comes down to him. Do you notice that Everything comes back to him? Just as the Old Testament prophesied of him, foreshadowed his coming, the New Testament is the fulfillment of those prophecies and the statements that were made throughout the history of man about our Messiah. That would come. But the Word of God tells us we must continually draw near and not ignore the calling of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Word of God tells us here in Hebrews 10, verse 22, let us draw near with a true heart. Did you hear that? Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, Sprinkled with what? The precious blood of Jesus Christ. Let us draw near with a true heart. You're lying to yourself if you say you don't need the Lord. You are lying to yourself. You are self-deceiving yourself into the pits of hell and the lake of fire one day. No, you need to quit lying to yourself and you need to hear and understand and respond to the calling, the convicting power of the Holy Spirit and come and be saved. Come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The word of God here says let us draw near with a true heart. When we mourn for our sin, we're starting to respond and draw near with our true heart to the cross of Jesus Christ and with full assurance of faith that he will save us. Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord, everyone whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord. No one is excluded, all is included. Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But if you reject him, if you go on ignoring his call, then hear the final warning Romans, chapter 2, verse 5. But after thy hardness and penitent heart sheds up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, you may live your whole life silencing the voice of conscience, the voice of your heart, but one day that voice will rise against you and shout against you in judgment. It will judge you in the day of judgment. That rejection of him, that rejection of his revelation, the revelation that he's given you in your heart, to do right or to do wrong, a conscience, a heart that is hard in our natural form and our sinful nature, but the word of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ, Paul would tell us and look at chapter 1, verse 16, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of christ, for it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the jew first, and also to the greek, for therein is the righteousness of god revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the just shall live by faith. I tell you what a new heart, he says, a new heart In the Old Testament, ezekiel testified of this. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. Repent today and believe. Listen to the conscious, listen to your heart calling you to the cross. That's the Holy Spirit, convicting power, calling you to the cross today. You've heard this revelation, you've heard this witness. The conscience has spoken, the scripture has thundered, the spirit has stirred. If you will reject this call, if you silence the voice, then know this the next time conscious speaks may be the last time grace calls. It's a dangerous thing. Therefore, choose Christ Surrender now. May I repeat that last part If you reject this call right now, holy Spirit's convicting your heart, if you silence that voice, then know this, understand this fully the next time he speaks to your heart may be the last time grace calls, and that may be right now. Now, this may be your last chance to accept christ as your lord and savior. I'll give you a real life example. When I got saved in the latter part of 2004, um, I was at a place I shouldn't have been with, a female that I shouldn't have been there with, and I'm not proud of this, but I know what God saved me from and what he's brought me and made me into, what he's regenerated me into. I'm not necessarily so much ashamed of what I did, but I'm gracious. I thank God for his grace and mercy and love the great grace, love and mercy that he showed me. But I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be and I was watching from through the TV and I came upon John Hagee preaching about Christ, preaching about the end times, and the Holy Spirit convicted my heart and folks. I lie to you, not the Lord spoke to my heart that night. The Holy Spirit says if you don't respond this time, you'll never hear this call again. That is true life testimony. My friend, it can happen and will happen. Choose Christ, surrender now. Yet if you refuse regeneration, if you choose rebellion, if you continue to reject Christ as Lord and Savior, you will die in your sins. It's a fact of Scripture, that's another truth of Scripture. It's a revelation from God's truth. But the Savior stands ready. He says Come unto me, all you that are burdened and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come unto me and I will give you rest. All who are burdened, all who are heavy laden with sin that's what he's talking about all the difficulties of life. And sin is the greatest disease that we can ever face, because it always leads to death, physical and spiritual death, the second death, the eternal separation from God, all because you refused to accept his call today. I'm not saying that you're going to die right now, but I'm saying you are not promised another second. Your life is like a vapor it's here for a while and then it's gone. My friend, you can't grasp a hold of a vapor. You can't see a vapor. It's there and then it's gone. It's there and it's gone in a moment of a time. That's how fragile your life is. Or, on the other hand, christ could return and call out his body, call out his church, rapture us out of here. You would be left behind to suffer the seven years of tribulation period. Then, at the end of that, once this heaven and earth has passed away, been burned up like ash, you will stand before the great white throne. One day after his millennial reign. You'll stand before the great white throne and you'll be judged according to the works that you've done in your body, by the books being open. Everything you do, everything you say, every time you had a chance to be saved is being recorded, and you will be reminded of that one day, because your sins are not covered under the blood. You refuse the blood, you refuse salvation, you refuse the gospel of Jesus Christ, crucified, dying, resurrected the third day and ascended back to heaven as the Lord of all. You will have to face that one day at the great white throne. Judgment Also, your name, the lack of your name being written in the last book of life, will be a testament that can't be refuted with any excuse. You're left without excuse. So I ask you today you'll be cast into the lake of fire. So I ask you, please lay down your guilt, lay down your sin and repent and turn from that sin of the world. Turn from what you're caught up in in the world. Listen to the Holy Spirit and turn to God by placing all your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Receive the gospel and let your conscience rejoice in Christ Jesus today, who's saved to the uttermost. Thank you for joining us today. I look so forward to the next time we can share in a word from the Word of God. God bless you all.