What's Your Sign Part 3

Welcome to Freelife Chapel, where we help you discover and live the free life in Christ. My name is Kayla, and I am so excited that you decided to tune in with us today. Why? Because you're in for a treat with today's message. But first, go ahead, check out our website at freelifechapel.org so that way you can see what we're all about here, which is faith and fun. And because you're watching this right now, that means we're family. And here at Freelife Chapel, we love family. So if you ever catch yourself in the central Florida area, go ahead, stop by so that way we can connect with you right here on campus in person. But like I said, you're in for a treat with this message. So go ahead, sit back, relax. And I hope today's message encourages you just like it encourages me. What is your sign? I'm going to be wrapping this little series up this week. We're talking about where do you get your identity from? What is it that you base your life on? Some people lean heavy into the horoscopes. They're checking those out every day. The Wall Street Journal tells them who they are. The Lakeland Ledger are going to tell you how good your week's going to be. I mean, that's okay. So you got that. There's people that run the Zodiac, right? And they're living in that world. There's other folks that choose other things, other aspects of life in order to give them identity, whether it's an education, whether it's a career, my money, who am I on Instagram. There's all kinds of things we reach for. But what we're talking about in this series is all those things fall short unless you get it right with Jesus. Jesus is the one that should identify that.

But I want to address this from another angle that I've never heard taught in my entire life. And I'm an old guy. I've been around for a minute. I've never in my life heard a message on what I'm about to share with you today, nor have I ever preached one on this. But I want to bring it here today. How many of you have ever struggled with your confidence? If the person beside you is not raising their hand, it's they're not confident enough to raise their hand right now. So they're struggling with confidence right now. And all of us, every single one of us, this insecurity, insecurity is crippling. It makes us doubt stuff. It makes us pause, not get involved, do some things that we would have enjoyed, but I'm afraid if I do that. What are you afraid of? I don't know. I'm just afraid. OK, well, it does that. It makes us quit. We don't even try some things. We don't even try some things when I'm insecure, just real skeptical over stuff, and it, it limits life when we live insecure. And I just want you to understand insecurity is not just limiting things in your everyday life. Insecurity is crippling your relationship with Jesus. And so for that reason today, I want to speak to, and I want to strengthen your spiritual confidence. You need to see yourself square them shoulders. Hey, you're doing better than you think you are.

And I want to show you why that's true. It's not just my opinion. It's not just me trying to make you feel good. No, no, no, no, no. Feeling good doesn't matter if it's not true. And I need to give you something that's true that you can say, oh, shucks, I got it going on like that. All right, we're going to talk about that. Let's go here. Let's go here right now. Here's what I need you to know. What's wrong with you is not what's wrong with you. Some of y'all will be discussing that at lunch. What did he mean by that? What's wrong with you is not what's wrong with you. How many of you could think of at least three or four things that you think are wrong with you? Please raise your hand. If your neighbor's not raising their hand, give them a few of your ideas about what's wrong with them. Go ahead and help them out so they can raise their hand. Yes, me too. All of us, we got stuff. We try to hide it. We don't want, we want to act like we, there's nothing wrong with me. And people call something out and we go at them like they're fabricating, but the truth is you could add points and sub points to everything they just said because, oh no, it's all there. Whoop, there it is. It's a mess.

But what's wrong with you is not what's wrong with you. What's wrong is what you and I believe about Jesus and his love for us. It's important that you understand that because you got to stop focusing on your mess and start focusing on Jesus's love and sacrifice. Why is that important? Because your life moves towards your dominant thought. Whatever you think about is who you become. Whatever you think about is where you're going. Whatever you look at affects your heart. Lamentations chapter three says my eye affected my heart. Whatever you put your eyes on in culture, it begins to affect you a certain way. And we have to be so very careful that we're actually moving our life forward. Where the head goes, your body follows. And so we've got to get our head space right. You need to understand how loved you are. You need to understand everything Jesus did for you is on a level that we've never fully embraced as of yet. In fact, not even your most intensive point of struggle, your worst of worst day, none of that could even cancel or even limit God's plan for you. your life, or his forgiveness that is extended towards you, all of it is still in full effect. It's still in full effect. But since your life is following your dominant thought, and you and I can think some crazy thoughts, have you ever had a crazy thought in the past 24 hours? Past 10 minutes? I'm trying to worship. Why am I thinking about that? This mind is nuts. Since that's how we're wired and what we deal with,

we got to deal with that. And the Bible does. Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 7. If you're looking for a new tat, this is it right here. I'm telling you right now, I highly recommend this one. Jeremiah 17, seven. Y'all read it loud, read it proud. Here we go. Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. Whose confidence is in him. Not confidence in Scott, not in what I built, not my education, not anything that looks good on the outside, all of that can go away. My confidence has to be built on something more than what people can take away. My confidence has to be built on one who is greater than all, and that is Christ. When I trust what God said about the power of his love and salvation towards me, when I truly have built my trust and my confidence that everything he said about me is true, my life stabilizes. People don't have the ability to rock my world. I don't live with drama. You can say what you want. I've already had an opinion greater than yours. I like you, and I want us to do some life, but I'm good, I'm good, I'm good in this neighborhood. Hey, I'm good, I'm bolder, I'm stronger.

I can stand flat-footed, and I can speak some things not based on my ability, but based on his. I live different when I believe that he loves me and believe that he fully died for me. That's a game-changer, folks. I trust him. I don't walk around with fear that God's gonna strike me with a lightning bolt living in Lakeland, Florida, the lightning capital of the world. I'm not worried about that, because God's not mad at me. He's mad about me, and I know that because I trust what his word said. Confidence in Jesus and his salvation, when we actually get that, it begins to produce joy on the inside. It produces a strength, it produces a hope on the inside. In other words, it's possible to be serving God and not have joy in your salvation. And I feel like I'm just white-knuckling it and being drugged through life, trying to hold on to Jesus, not really sure how people do this, and does it even matter, can I even do this thing? David reached that point in his life, and in Psalm 51, he said, Lord, restore unto me the joy of my salvation. I need the joy back. Why, because the joy of the Lord is your strength. You don't have joy, you don't have strength. I need to get that back, so I'm living in this confidence.

So here's what you have to understand, spiritual confidence in all of our lives takes a hit when we sin. I know very few of you have ever sinned in your life. Me, I have done, I've done plenty of it for all of us, all right, but the truth is that all of us have been there. We take hits when we sin, and we begin to think things like this, after I claimed Christ, but I did something stupid this weekend, that we start to think, does God still love me? We think things like this, am I really saved? Am I really forgiven? Like, I just wonder, I keep messing up, I keep messing up, am I still a Christian? Did he bail on me? And I can answer definitively all of those, yes, yes, and heck to the yes. All three of those, the answer is yes, but you and I have got to get our heads wrapped around this because the Bible tells us this, in 1 John chapter one, verse eight, it says, we all sin. Yes, we do, even he does, even he does, all right, so you gotta, like, watch this, turn, just look at the person beside you, just look at them, yep, they sin. Look at the person on the other side, look at the other one, go, mm-hmm, yeah, oh, I know, I know about you, I know about you.

Okay, look at both of them and tell them, me too, just tell them me too, because yeah, that's all of us. We're all jacked up, we all have these things, we think thoughts, motives are wrong, we go off on, like, we do stuff. It's over a chicken sandwich and you're yelling at somebody at Chick-fil-A because they got in front of me, oh my God. It's amazing what little it takes for us to go there and when John wrote this, that we all, watch this, we all sin, that's your Bible, he was writing it to Christians. He wasn't writing to this culture, oh, you and the culture. Well, he's no he's talking to the preacher he's talking to the deacons or the demons He's talking to the people like all y'all y'all sin all y'all sinning and you're good at it cinnamon It's what we do. It's in our nature. We're so selfish. We're so prideful me Me my that's who we are. It's what we do So because of that and since when we sin our confidence takes a spiritual hit And we begin to think less But I can't get rid of sin because it's I'm gonna be sinning all the way until Jesus comes I'm never gonna stop sinning. You're never gonna stop. I'm never sitting again. Well, you just lied. I mean, yeah Yeah, so yeah. Yeah, like it's like it's never gonna stop So that means I need to learn how to deal with my sin. I Need to learn how to deal with it because here's what's happening. Sin is violating your own conscience This is where I want to go I've never heard anything preached about the conscience the human conscience, but the Bible is prolific over 30 times 30 times in the New Testament alone

The conscience is mentioned all through the Old Testament The idea the concept of the conscience and how God deals with it is all through our Bible And you and I need to deal with this and we need to understand what it is That conscience is that internal voice y'all got one So I said mine sounds like my mama. Well, I don't know what yours are like a program for you know You can choose different voices, but but it's it's that internal voice watch this that distinguishes for us between right and wrong Between right and wrong and it comes out. It does a couple different things. It operates as a guide It operates as a chaperone and it operates as a judge As a guide it's saying we walk this way we do this it gives me direction Then as a chaperone while I'm doing stuff Have you ever been doing something wrong and you had this voice your voice don't do it. Don't do it Don't send that text do not send that text. It's typed I know you spell-checked it and you added emojis to it. Do not send that text It's that chaperone Right there with you and then it's also our judge Because we do some things that we know we shouldn't have done and it never shuts up It goes to bed with you it wakes up with you you got up to use the bathroom in the night It's still talking to you. Not would you please go to bed? It never quits. You're laughing on the outside and fighting with this voice on the inside Fighting with this voice because it's talking to me about my past I'm fine with this voice because it's talking to me about how I'm not good enough and I'm such a failure and It never works. And all I see is what's wrong with life I can't find what's right and I'm struggling with all this on the inside And what's happening is your conscience is working to align the inner values with your outer actions That what is right in here that's in the moral code of who I am that God put there Oh I wish I had time to talk about moral agency and where it comes from that is the greatest proof of God Because that doesn't happen because of a big bang all of a sudden we have a moral Understanding as to what right and wrong is that means there must be a being higher greater and outside of us that imprinted it in Us, but we don't have time to go there today

But this is the word this is who we are He put it on the inside of us and the book of Romans says that everybody has it Believer or non-believer and God works through that moral agency to lead us and direct us convict us In fact, that's where the voice of Holy Spirit operates in your life And my life is working inside of our conscious to convict and lead our lead our lives And when your conscience is clear when you feel like it's aligned you feel strong. You're secure. You're confident You feel whole but the moment that you your conscience is is Conflicted when when you feel like it's been violated. That's when insecurity comes in In other words, I say I believe one thing, but I'm living another I Say that people should do this, but I did this Lying is wrong, but I'm really good at it Like I've got this I've got this conflict. I've got inner drama. I don't need any drama out there I got enough drama going on inside of me right now because I've got all of this back and forth and I can't even rest With me it'd be one thing if I could say goodnight and send somebody to another house, but I'm stuck with me I'm dealing with me. These thoughts are owning me and when this conscience hit now, I feel and now I feel insecure And now I've got guilt running now. It goes into shame in my life. All these things are owning me In fact first Samuel chapter 24 David put it this way David did something wrong and he said I'm conscience stricken My conscience has been so hit It's owning me and David can't get rest Has anybody ever been bothered so bad that you had a hard time sleeping like you just I can't just I can't find any peace Like you actually it was so real. You had to go apologize to somebody How do you know that's got to be real right there? That's got to be real right like to get me to go say I'm sorry, that's that's this is what happens in the conscience But here's what I need us to understand the sense of our own Sinfulness is a gift The fact that you feel that something was wrong is a gift to you Feeling guilt in your conscience is not the problem Feeling guilt in your conscience is proof that there is a problem When you feel pain in your body pain is not your enemy

Pain is proof that something is wrong in your body It's an alarm that goes off to tell you to go get something checked. There's a condition where some people feel no pain and They don't know if they've been cut broken a bone They don't know if they're dying because they feel nothing and a lot of us say I would love to live with no pain No, you would not pain is a gift in those situations and a conscience that is aware of sin where I have violated God is a gift in my life and Holy Spirit does that and pulls on it and I feel that that's called conviction Conviction is when God is trying to pull me back into a solid relationship with him Guilt is when it's owning me and it makes me want to push back on God and run because guilt turns into shame Undealt with guilt becomes shame and that's where guilt is. What I did shame is who I am. I Now I'm so identifying with my guilt that I call it me and now it's my identity. It's who I am. It's how I live It's what I deserve and it begins to own our world. It becomes a cancer to your soul and We have to deal with this because God's word deals with this and and we try a lot of things in order to just clear Our own consciences instead of coming to Jesus. We try a lot of things. Well, I'm gonna do charity work. Yes, I am I'm gonna be a good person. So we trade righteous living for good living. We try to be good moral people Whatever that is. We try to be good people and then and then we try to change morality Our culture today is fighting against the conscience of God inside of us so much that culture is trying to shift a morality So that things that would bother us ten years ago doesn't bother us anymore Because your conscience can be Reprogrammed it can be shifted and you and I've got to be so very careful that I don't just let every Ideology into me and people begin to shift what's right and what's wrong I've got to go back and I got to find what God's code is for my life and let this become the standard that I live my life by and Then when the conscience even though we're trying to find a way to clear our own conscience with our own our own works our own Righteousness. Well, then it just it gets really crazy Because the conscience when it refuses to be satisfied because we can try everything but the conscience is never satisfied even with all that Then we just try to drown its voice out, but with all kinds of a party a pill a person Another vacation. I'm gonna dive into social media. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be true to me. I'm just gonna do me dog

We quit church because there's too much conviction in church. I'll go to church. It makes me feel worse No, it doesn't make you feel worse. It's God's voice pulling you back in. That's not guilt That's conviction. That's good. That's healthy We all need that again the twinge of pain inside your conscience when God is pulling on you is a blessing. It's not a cursing We got to start identifying it as such there's people that call it church hurt and run. It wasn't church hurt It was conviction, baby God was dealing with your heart and saying I love you enough to tell you the truth about a situation So we try a little bit of everything let me just more sin I'm just people go violent. Okay quit church or or or the or we become watch this or become religious Where instead of repenting and getting our life, right? We just shift our direction and our attention to other people Well, at least I'm not like them At least I live better than they do So now I have set my moral code as long as I can stay above them and above them Well, guess what? You always will because you'll always find something to downgrade them over to make sure you're higher and better than they are This is how your conscience this is how twisted we are. It's how good we are as Self-qualifying and fighting to stop from responding to God the way we need to We've got to drop the excuses and deal with a guilty conscience. There's one of three ways that it happens. Number one We either quit Judas did that y'all remember Judas in the Bible Judas who betrayed Jesus? Judas after he betrayed Jesus realize That's what he did. The Bible says he went out and hung himself. His conscience hit him so bad, he was so grieved, he went and hung himself. In other words, his conscience was grieved and therefore he quit, he just quit everything. And then there was a guy named Peter. Peter, he also denied Jesus three times. He blew it, he messed everything up, but whenever his conscience was hit,

he went into repentance and came back and got it healed. Same awareness in their conscience that they were wrong. One quit in life, the other repented and came back. But there's this other couple called Adam and Eve, and in the very beginning, they showed us the battle of what the conscience is and they did what most of us are doing in our life today. When Adam and Eve were told don't do this and do this and they violated that, they all of a sudden ran and they were hiding from God. And God, the Bible says, came walking through the garden, looking for them. How do you know when God calls your name, where are you? How do you know God, you're not lost, God knows exactly where you are. He just wants to know, do you know where you are? Adam and Eve were hiding from God, they were MIA. And I'm here to tell you, I believe most believers today are hiding from God. I'm running from God because I don't know how he's gonna handle me in this situation. Can he really handle my issues? And I've got good news for you today. Although this sin attacks our confidence in Christ and we make, it questions our relationship with God, there's answers that God's word gives us. And this, all that was foundational to get us to this right here. Hebrews chapter nine, verse nine, check this out. This is an illustration pointing to the present time

for the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them. Watch this. The verse starts off, this is an illustration. What's an illustration? The previous eight verses of this chapter, verses one through eight tell us this. It's a reference back to the writer and the book of Hebrews is referencing back to the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, once a year, a lamb was killed, a ram was killed on the day of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one day a year. And the blood of that ram was taken into the holy of holies in the tabernacle, blood was scattered, on the mercy seat and the sins of the entire nation for one more year were covered. They were removed. Watch this. One time a year, one time a year. And that meant the next year, they had to do it all over again. And the next year, do it all over again. And the next year, do it all over again. Because the blood of that ram had no way to remove sin, it could only cover sin. So once a year, do it again. How many of you know if you have to do something every year, you are reminded of that situation

for the rest of your entire life? I'm reminded of my sin all the time. I'm always reminded where I blew it. I'm always reminded how bad I am. I'm always reminded, over and over and over. That's what the writer was talking about. That it wasn't able, this blood was not able to cleanse your conscience. It was able to cover your sin and it made you, it gave you standing with God, but you were still battling with thoughts and your emotions inside were raging because you knew how twisted and damaged and crazy you were on the inside. And you were left to wrestle with that in the Old Testament. But look what it says, drop down five more verses down to Hebrews chapter nine, verse 14. And look what the writer goes on to write. Here's what he says, read it with me. Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. In other words, what he's saying is everything in the Old Testament, it only covered, but it never dealt with the conscience. You were left to wrestle and battle with that. And the blood that was shed only covered,

it did not remove. But when Jesus came, it was all just a picture. That was a type and shadow for what Jesus would be. So when he came as our sacrifice and his blood was shed on the cross and he died for us, he didn't just cover sins, his blood removed sins. There's no evidence, there's no receipt. It's gone, it's over. There's no proof that you ever sinned one day in your life. It is gone, folks, that's your Bible. But it goes on to say this, not only did he forgive and take away your sins because he's the perfect sacrifice, he dealt with clearing, cleansing your conscience. I've never heard. preached before. Nobody told me that he was so concerned with how I think about me that the sacrifice on the cross not only took my sin away but it gave me a reason to live at peace in my heart because all of that is over. Turn to someone tell him it's over, it's over. You see that word, watch this, what Jesus did is called atonement. It's not like a really big spiritual word, it's a theological word that connects with your life. Don't be afraid of it because atonement means at-one-ment with God again. I'm at one with him, I'm not separated from God. God and I are together, we're in relationship, like we were doing some life, he's my boo. Like we got it going on like this, we're living this out. I love him, he loves me. Oh it don't mean that I don't have any issues, I still got some challenges. I could think some crazy thoughts and do some nuts, you got to be kidding me stuff, but he never throws me away. He doesn't say that's it and kicks me out. When Jesus died for your sin and my sin and you said Jesus come into my heart, he didn't just forgive your sin today, he forgave your sin in the past, he forgave your sin today, and he forgave your sin

tomorrow. It is done once and for all. Here's the issue, you're gonna have to deal with that. No, you're gonna have to accept it because if you don't accept it you're gonna trip for the rest of your life trying to be good enough to deserve it, trying to make sure that I did my part. You can add nothing to it, you can't take anything away from it. You are forgiven, deal with it. What do you do when the debt is gone? You're still trying to pay a bill at the restaurant and they're telling you there is no bill. You're arguing with people trying to give something away and pay something when it's not owed, it's over. You got to drop it. The guilt, the condemnation, the shame that is running in your head, you're so consumed with the past you can't even enjoy the sacrifice and the price that Jesus paid for you. And he said, I didn't just pay to get sin off your life, I paid to get you off of your life. You're gonna kill yourself if you don't allow me to clear that. You see, redemption gets sin out of your way and a clear conscience gets you out of your way. What did the verse say? All this has to be done so you can worship God. It tells me that until I accept fully what Jesus did for me, I'm not going to love and serve him properly. I'm serving him because he might strike me, I'm serving him because well it just happened to be this and I'm so consumed with me I can't even focus on him. He says you can't even love me properly, I can't even tell you, I can't share my promises with you. We're not even in full relationship like we could be until you deal with that conscience. I got more for you. How many want everything God has for you? Y'all want everything? You want God to download in your house? If you didn't raise your hand, I'm taking your part too. I want yours and mine. I'm gonna take everything he's got and this is how we live. My mom right now is on my nerves. My mama, mm-hmm. Oh I love her but she's on my nerves. No she is, she's straight up on my nerves. Oh I love the lady from to heaven and back, I love her. But my mama, so she's got this iPhone that I'm pretty sure it's probably version one or two. I'm pretty sure it's like that, it's like way back there. It's so old that I cannot, when I'm with Malachi and Taliyah, I'm with my grandkids and I want her to see her great-grandkids, I can't even FaceTime her because her processor in

her phone does not accept FaceTime. Like what in the, are you, so I got to call my dad, FaceTime with my dad, wake him up so that my, because see my dad even though he's in his 80s, he's a man that's got to have the top technology and everything going on. He's that kind of guy. But my mama, she could care less. As long as she can play Sudoku on her phone, she is a happy camper. Like mom, that's a phone also. It's not just a game, you understand. And she is happy, she's happy. But watch this, the processor's so slow, she can't receive FaceTime. I need you to understand, Jesus died not just so you can have communication to heaven, he also wants to FaceTime you. And you're gonna have to upgrade your processing of faith, get a new version. The Old Testament faith is over. It's a New Testament experience with everything Jesus did so you can FaceTime with him and talk to him and experience him for yourself. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 22 solidifies this. Watch this, here's what it says. Let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water. Three things, three things get you near to God in this. Number one, a sincere heart. God says if you're gonna come to me, don't play. You be real with me. Don't, don't come in, well, no, no, no, no, no. You either come in and surrender or you're not ready for me. I'm not here just to hang out, I'm here to take over. So if we're gonna do this, let's do this, be sincere, number one. Number two, I need you to have a sure faith. In other words, I need you to trust what I said about you. I need you to believe my word on your life. Don't play with it, learn it, know it. Unless you read it, you don't have a clue what I said about you and what you can have. You have no promise that you can claim, lay hold of, push back on, pray about if you don't know what I said. You need a sure faith. And number three, you need to be purified from a guilty conscience.

I need you to get off your back, you are in my way for blessing your life. This is God's word right here and he says you do it by the washing of the water. What does that mean? The Bible tells us in Ephesians five, the washing of the water is the word. In other words, the more of this word I see, learn, understand, the more of his mind I take on and the less of my mind I deal with. Romans 12, the renewing of your mind is the reprogramming of your conscience. You've got wrong things programmed and you're expecting some things and it's not satisfying. You're living with this drama and this turmoil, this conflict inside. And God says until you do it my way, you're always going to be tripping. Get over it. Let it go. Do it my way. That changes everything. I don't think you really understand how loved you are and how strong you are and why I say you're doing better than you think you are. I saw this illustration the other day on social media, so I'm ripping it off. God gave you eyes, plagiarized. So I'm just saying, no, no, no, no, don't do it. No, I'm playing. No, don't do it. We're at the end of school. I'm glad it's almost over. No, don't do that. You, that's you right there. Look at you, sitting here all see-through and everything. Good for you. And then there is, now I'll get it in a minute. Got Holy Spirit. The Bible tells me that when you said yes to Jesus, you became a new creature.

Old things are passed away. All things become new. The Bible says in Ezekiel that then God put His Spirit inside of us. And His Spirit has sealed us until the day of redemption. Oh, and, but if you thought that was good. Yeah, we got Jesus in the mix. Because your life is now hidden in Jesus according to the book of Colossians. And guess where Jesus is according to Colossians 3? Y'all doing better than you think you are. If you love Jesus, if you've invited Him into your life, that's you right there. Don't you tell me you're exposed and by yourself and struggling, I can't do this. He is in you. He's outside of you. He's surrounding you. You are wrapped up, tied up, tangled all up in Him. You're good. You're going to be fine. You just need to, yeah, some of y'all need to get your camera out and take a picture of you right now. You need to see where you are in that. That's why greater is He that is in me. And the stuff that's around me, I'm layers deep in heaven. Promises are mine. But if you and I don't deal with this conscience, we can be here and pushing back on everything heaven has for you and me. Life is supposed to be good, not easy, but good. And let me show you the impact of this in closing. The power, watch, of having your conscience atoned at one with God. God. Again, I was never taught that when Jesus went to the cross, it did two things. I was always taught, He forgave me for my sins. Yeah, that's true. He redeemed

me. He bought me back. But Hebrew says, and also cleaned my conscience. Both are important. Not just salvation, but a cleared conscience that I can live this life that He has for me. That's why 1st John chapter 3 verses 20 through 22. This is going to sucker punch you. It's gonna be a throat punch. This is good right here. Check this. Whenever our conscience condemns us, we will be reassured that God is greater than our conscience and knows everything. Dear friends, if our conscience doesn't condemn us, we can boldly look to God and receive from Him anything we ask. We receive it because we obey His commands and do what pleases Him. Here's what the passage is saying. If you love Jesus on your way to heaven and you've got a conscience that is chewing you up and spitting you out, you're guilty, you're wrong, you're trash, you can't live this life, all that going on and you're battling that inside. God says, your conscience is condemning you, but I'm greater than your conscience and I'm faithful when you're not. You can chew you up, but I will not chew you up. And you can throw elbows and you can call out your guilt, but I've forgotten it. Your sin is gone as far as the East is from the West. I have no record of it. So you can keep living that life if you want to. I'm greater and when you finally get your feet under you and learn to trust me, I'll take you places you've never been before. So I'm greater than your situation and your conscience. But He says, but if your conscience doesn't condemn you. If you ever get your mind renewed and you align and you get your conscience cleared and I really believe that I'm forgiven all the way and I really believe I'm loved like crazy and I really believe that He's not out to get me but He's here for me, that He's not taking my name away and throwing me around and aggravated and embarrassed and frustrated with me. He's not, He's crazy about me. He sees me as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I'm free, I'm cleared. If I take that mindset on, His word we just read, then ask what you want and you'll get it. So let me ask you something. How much, how much is a guilty conscience costing you? Where should I be? Because I'm not. Because I'm not embracing. How do I get that, Pastor? Your conscience is programmed. Some of us, our families

programmed our conscience and it was jacked up. They taught us some things were right, some things were wrong. Culture today is telling you what's right and what's wrong is trying to program your conscience and it's all violating the reality of who Christ is in here and until I get a mind full of this and let this begin to re-script and I align myself with this word, it's when I align with His word that things begin to change. That's why I have the right voices and friends around me. That's why I love to serve in church. That's why life groups are here. All of it is about renewing the mind, getting your conscience right so you can live in the freedom and the power and the promises that Jesus died to give us. You're too valuable to live jacked up for the rest of your life. Going to heaven but living like hell, that's not God's plan. He wants to bless you and get you off your back so His best can hit your life. Would you please stand to your feet? Ladies and gentlemen, there'll always be an enemy whispering in your ear because a guilty conscience will hold you hostage. If you keep playing the game, you're going to have to learn what God's Word says and push back on it. I will not let you identify me. I will not let you script my life. This is what God's Word says. Oh, I did all that that you're talking about but it's gone. It's been forgiven. I'm free in Him. See, here's the bottom line. Please don't miss this. This point seals it. Since all my sin is against God, David said, against you and you only have I sinned, oh God. Since all my sin is against God, then that means God is the only one who can redeem my life and who can clear my conscience. He's the only one. Culture can't do it. Your family can't do it. Psychology can't do it. The DSM-6 can't do it. I don't care how much you watch self-help It's all good. It will never do what because only God can do that since the infraction was against him He's the one who holds the leverage to release the answer and he does And God loves you so much That he refused for you to be right with him But at conflict with yourself so I'll forgive you but now I want to cleanse your mind so you can get off your back and stop being your enemy and

Accept the love and the peace that I have for you Jesus, thank you for doing all that for us Stepping into the inner parts of who we are our makeup our being how we think how we process life Our relationships all of that at all the intersection of our life is our conscience And we need to know that you're there guiding and directing and leading all of it And and when we feel bad about things that we shouldn't have done Let us take it as conviction that prompts us to heal the relationship repent to you But keep moving not to stop quit derail and fall away. No, we will not live in shame shame died on the cross today We live with a with a hope and a strength in you because not only have we been saved and our sin has been wiped away forever No remembrance of it. Our consciences have been cleansed so that we can worship you and know you fully Today it's time for us to pray bold prayers to stand on strong ground and declare your word But we can only do it when our conscience is not condemning us There's a lot of life ahead of us. So we thank you for your truth. We thank you for your word and your promises Today God we look to you for all of this healing our hearts moving us forward showing us what matters And as we lean in you I thank you that your promises are yes, and a man we will have them in Jesus name Amen. Amen. If you receive that today, would you put those hands together? I Hope today's message encouraged you just like it encouraged me for more encouraging messages Check out our website at freeliveshopper.org until then. I hope you have an amazing day