RETAINING GOD IN OUR CONSCIENCE

To Be Without A Conscience and conscience of God, "retaining" HIM

Some people "retain" strife, fear, unbelief, lying, pride, jealousy, envy....
..They are well "habited" in their sin...... "retaining" the wrong spirit. Thier conscience allows and affords them their strife and self will, BUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD TOTALLY REVOLVES AROUND keeping our hearts free of offense towards God and man.


God made everyone with a conscience. Everyone's conscience has God's standards of what is good and what is bad (Romans 2:14-15, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;"). If this is so, how can anyone be without conscience? This can be answered by Romans 1:28. People without conscience choose not to retain God in their knowledge. In turn, God turns them over to a reprobate mind. A path of sin, destruction, and eventually death (Romans 1:28, "And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;").

You Can Say You Know God But Be Without Conscience

Many people profess to know God, but they are without conscience. They push away God's leading in the little things. They grieve, deny and resist the Holy Ghost in the everyday small things. Many people may really believe they know God, but in
their works they deny Him. Many people may talk about their love of God and profess His word, but their action show they are without 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. [16] They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.").

Separated From God Is To Be Without Conscience

God does not desire for us to be separated from him. It is our choice to not be with Him. Many of us do not desire to retain God in our conscience because it is
not convenient to our fleshly desires (Romans 1:28, "And even as
they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"). Rather than being filled with God's knowledge, we default and are filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,envy, deceit, and unmerciful. Romans 1:29-31 goes on listing
all the things we would rather do than retain God in our conscience. This is being without conscience.

Scriptures Related To Without A Conscience

Romans 1:28-31, "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, [30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God,that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

Roman
s 2:14-15, "For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;"


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."

So the key is to wake up in our conscience and yeild to the Holy Spirit rather than the flesh, and defile our conscience by doing that. God is not mocked what we sow we reap. We can turn a deaf ear in our heart to His voice, but we will have to suffer consciquences if we do.