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44THTH ADDRESS: ADDRESS:
BE NOT BE NOT DECEIVEDDECEIVED
YOUR CONSCIENCE
LIFE EXPERIENCES
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There are many ways to Destroy
Your Conscience!
SELF DECEPTION
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
1 Corinthians 6:9-10Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
• The strong likelihood is that some will be deceived.
• Deception based on a misconception of our God and His teachings.
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
1 Timothy 4:1-2
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
• They would depart from the faith.
• And still be Christadelphians?
• Seduced by false teachings.
• Their conscience has become seared and thereby insensitive.
YOUR CONSCIENCE
LIFE EXPERIENCES
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Ways to Destroy Conscience!
SELF DECEPTION
Those who cannot or will not close the Status Quo
valve!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
1 Corinthians 10:11-12
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
• Those so sure of themselves as to not bother to properly examine their standing in the faith.
t Those who cannot or will not close the Status Quo valve!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
Heb 10:26-27
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
• They become victims of their own unconquered vice.
t Those who cannot or will not close the Status Quo valve!
YOUR CONSCIENCE
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Ways to Destroy Conscience!
SELF DECEPTION
Those who are a Victim of their own
Stubborness!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
James 4:17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Romans 14:22Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
• Those who become victims of their own willful sin and/or their unconquered procrastination.
tA Victim of
Stubborness!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
1John 3:11-13For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
• Those who become victims of their own envy and jealousy.
tA Victim of
Stubborness!
YOUR CONSCIENCE
LIFE EXPERIENCES
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Ways to Destroy Conscience!
SELF DECEPTION
Those who are a Victim of
their own Self Deception!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
Romans 13:14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Many times we, perhaps unwittingly, set ourselves up for failure.
tA Victim of Self
Deception!
BE NOT DECEIVED!BE NOT DECEIVED!
Galatians 6:7-8Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
1 Cor 15:33-34 NKJVDo not be deceived:"Evil company corrupts good habits."
• Sometimes it takes a long while for a seed to grow to the point of producing fruit.
tA Victim of Self
Deception!
