WHAT IS THE STATE OF YOUR CONSCIENCE?
Today, we want to look at what constitutes a dead
conscience.
It has been confirmed that when conscience is dead, life is
doomed both in this world and in the world to come.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 says, Now the spirit speaketh expressly that
in the later times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of the devil, speaking lies in hypocrisy having their
conscience seered with a hot iron.
When people tell lies and don’t seem to feel anything; when
they steal and don’t feel anything; when they commit immorality and don’t feel
anything; when they cheat and don’t feel anything; when they kill and still
don’t feel anything; their conscience is already dead. They are not safe.
Now, conscience can die in the following ways:
1. Repeated acts of rebellion.
When you do the wrong thing repeatedly and your conscience
pricks you for a while but you refuse to repent, you will be left alone. A time
comes when the sinful action will begin to appear normal. That is the realm
where some hardened criminals live their lives.
2. Un-confessed sins
Conscience can become dead with un-confessed sins. This is a
situation where the person is doing the wrong thing but does not see any reason
to say “sorry†to God or to man.
3. Excusing or justifying wrong deeds.
Your conscience can die when you excuse or justify wrong
deeds. When a person is busy excusing, explaining or justifying a wrong deed,
the conscience can come to a point where it becomes unresponsive and dead.
Beloved, it is very important to take heed to this so you
don’t run your race on earth in vain. What shows that you are preparing for
eternity is living with a clear conscience that is void of offence.
Paul Enenche
