“A Conscience Void of Offense”

Acts 24:16,        John 8:1-11

I: The Woman Taken in Adultery.
1. There was no doubt about her sin.
2. They were ready for her to pay the price.
3. Jesus turned their thoughts to their own sins.
4. A guilty conscience convicted them.

II: Every Man Born With a Sense of Right and Wrong. Rom. 2:45
1. Every heart cries out for man to do right.
2. The loss of a conscience will shipwreck your life. Tim. 1 1:19
3. Hypocrisy will sear the conscience like a hot iron. Tim. 1 4:1-2
“Now the Spirit speaketh, expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”
4. Nothing is pure to a defiled conscience. Titus 1:15-16
“Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. But even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”

III: Can the Natural Man Follow His Conscience?
1. Conscience only knows to tell us to do right and point out right when we have a knowledge of right.
2. To be able to follow our conscience, it must be purged by the blood of Jesus from dead works.
3. Our conscience must be yielded to the Holy Spirit. Rom. 9:1
“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.”
4. Only when the Conscience is yielded to God can we have a conscience void of offense toward God and Man.