The Cleansed Conscience

Very few people know what conscience is. They know they have one. It's like feet. But they have really never… They've heard the word used almost all their life, but they really don't know what it is. I have yet to find a psychologist or a psychiatrist who knows what a conscience is. They've all got one, but nobody has ever really ferreted out to what it really is.

And, people, it's just so simple. That's why they've missed it. Conscience is nothing but your habit pattern. That's all. It's all it is. When you were born, you started getting teaching. You were taught. And you believed what you were taught, you acted upon that belief, and that developed your conscience.

Now, if you were taught a certain thing and then you acted contrary to that which was taught, then your conscience started to condemn you.

So conscience, people, in its all of its truth and its least common denominator, is nothing but a habit pattern.

In Romans chapter 2, is where I’d like to begin with tonight. Romans chapter 2, verse 14.

Romans 2:14:
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature [naturally] the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law [what] unto themselves:

Boy, that's real simple. Real simple. Maybe we ought to read 15, then I'll explain it to you.