Rick Lawson was sitting in church, and he heard a speaker give this definition of a clear conscience.

You can say that you have a clear conscience, if there's nobody I've ever wronged, I've ever lied to, stolen from, you know, sinned against in any way that I haven't gone back to that person and made it right with them, you know, and then sought God's forgiveness as well.

And he asked for a show of hands of who could say that.

As our heads were about there, I knew that I couldn't raise my hand.

In fact, I almost, you know, physically kind of felt that somebody had just socked me in the stomach.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy DeMoss Wogelmuth, co-author of Seeking Him.

All this week, Nancy's talking about the freedom that comes from knowing you have a clear conscience.

In a few minutes, we'll hear from a man who was convicted by this kind of teaching.

He had lied on his application for a government security clearance.

He had to decide, is it better to risk my job or to know that I'm right with God and other people?

First, we'll wrestle through some practical applications of this teaching. or to know that I'm right with God and other people.

First, we'll wrestle through some practical applications of this teaching.

Nancy, I know a lot of listeners have questions about how to live out this teaching.

Yeah, Leslie, and we love hearing from listeners who want to interact with us about what they're hearing on revive our hearts.

Here's one listener who identified herself as hopeful, who wrote us after listening to this series and said she was feeling anxiety after hearing the program.

She wrote, my heart is so heavy.

I accepted Christ as my Savior at the age of 45.

My past is full of sin. I feel like I did before accepting Christ. I ask any who read this to please pray for me, which by the way, we do have a team that prays for people who send in prayer requests to this ministry. She said, pray that I will know who to confess to and not hurt anyone any more than I did in my past.

God have mercy on my soul, she said.

Well, hopeful, I think we'll get to some practical answers as we go through this series.

And here are just a few things to keep in mind.

First, you are completely forgiven and loved by God because of what Jesus has

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