The Faith Rest Drill :The Faith Rest Drill Building Your Faith Jim Oliver Ministries Lesson 42 Your Conscience


Slide 2:The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two edged sword, dividing between the soul and spirit, the joints and the marrow and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 All Scripture is God breathed and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God may be mature, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Study to show yourself approved unto God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15


The Faith Rest Drill :The Faith Rest Drill Name the Sin to the Father “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 “Be filled with the Spirit…” Ephesians 5:18


Outline :4 Outline Introduction Beginning the Faith Rest Drill Time to Use the Faith Rest Drill Faith Mechanics Faith Applications Faith Applied to Learning Doctrine The Formation of Spiritual IQ Grace Comprehension Grace Circulation


The Conscience :5 The Conscience Frame of Reference Memory Center Your Heart kardia mirror of your soul Stream of Consciousness Vocabulary Category Storage Conscience


The Conscience :Norms, Standards & Priorities Related to Biblical Absolutes Absolute vs. Relative Solutions Illustrations The Conscience


The Conscience :Norms, Standards & Priorities Related to Biblical Absolutes Vocabulary: SUNEIDESIS: “to know with an absolute standard” CON + SCIARI: “to know with” Definition: Mental faculty by which you distinguish right from wrong. Makes distinctions related to those concepts under the filling of the Holy Spirit. Motivates to do what is right. Restrains from doing wrong. The Conscience


The Conscience :8 The Conscience Vocabulary Category Storage Conscience Vocabulary Category Storage


The Conscience :9 Doctrine becomes part of your vocabulary. You establish categorized norms and standards. Reversing direction from conscience results in fragmentation, reversionism and sin nature lusts. Reversionism destroys conscience though scar tissue of the soul. The Conscience


The Conscience :10 The Function of Norms and Standards: “…they show the work of the Law printed on their hearts, their conscience confirming the testimony, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending themselves.” Romans 2:15 Rejection of the Conscience: “…keeping the doctrine and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck with regard to their faith.” 1 Timothy 1:19 The Conscience


The Conscience :11 The Conscience The Conscience of the Arrogant Unbeliever: “To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their thinking and their conscience is defiled.” Titus 1:15 The Conscience of the Growing Believer: “…but holding to the mystery doctrine with a clear conscience…” 1 Timothy 3:9


The Conscience :12 The Conscience The Conscience and the Spirit: “How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, will purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.” Hebrews 9:14 An Application of the Empowered Conscience: “For this grace, if for the sake of conscience toward God, a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.” 1 Peter 2:19


The Conscience :13 The Conscience The Apostate Conscience: “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later periods of time some will become apostate from doctrine, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience with a branding iron.” 1 Timothy 4:1-2