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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Don’t Waste Your Conscience

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Our conscience is a tremendous gift from God--one we must be careful not to ruin. In this episode, R.C. Sproul shows the importance of shaping our consciences according to the truth of God, not the ways of the world.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If we follow our consciences at every point beloved, they will guide us into disaster.

0:11.3

Our consciences can be distorted, they can be twisted, and if you let your consciences

0:16.9

alone be your guide, you will probably live a life of unrestrained wickedness.

0:27.0

The single greatest restraint for evil that God has put in this world is conscience.

0:39.5

And the most wicked person, even people who are described as being without conscience, as

0:44.6

being sociopath or psychopath, nevertheless, have not been able to annihilate altogether.

0:54.1

That voice of right and wrong that God has implanted in every human creature.

1:03.8

Remember that the law of God is not known merely from the Ten Commandments or from the pages

1:10.2

of sacred scriptures, the Apostle Paul Labor's death reign from Adam to Moses.

1:17.5

And that's because sin reigns from Adam to Moses, and Paul argues that where there's

1:22.9

no law, there can be no sin.

1:26.5

No sin, no death.

1:28.3

And so the point that the Apostle makes is that from day one, before the Ten Commandments

1:34.9

were ever delivered, God planted His law internally in the conscience of every human being.

1:44.6

Now this is dangerous.

1:46.7

We have to be careful that we don't become seduced by Walt Disney and begin to think

1:54.2

like Jiminy Cricket that we should let our consciences be our guide.

2:00.6

Because if we follow our consciences at every point beloved, they will guide us into disaster.

2:08.5

Why?

2:10.5

Because even though God plants conscience in the mind of every creature through our repeated

2:17.4

transgressions, through our ongoing sin, we have the ability to put calluses on our conscience

2:28.6

and we learn how to silence the voice of conscience and almost completely eradicate it.

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