MAXIMIZING DIVINE STRENGHT IN WEAKNESSES: DOING EXPLOITS INSPITE OF ISSUES-4

A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF GRACE THAT WORKSI do not want to be misunderstood following this revealing article on grace which is so true. I am not preaching weakness, and never will. However, there are some salient points that must be made, which will bring clarity to many who come across this article.
A GOOD OR PURE CONSCIENCE AND AN OBEDIENT, TENDER HEART.
If a man of God is busy sleeping with the female members of his congregation, year in year out and nothing moves him. This is a normal routine that never changes. He is never moved no matter what is done or said, in fact he often defends himself by saying that Jesus said that everyone who looks at a woman and lusts after her has already committed adultery. This means that whether you finish the act or not you are already guilty. He may sound theologically correct to some people, but he still has a very big problem.
He sounds theologically correct, but he is wrong because Jesus will not tell you to go ahead and cause another person to sin with you, just because you had sinned already by looking.
Secondly since doing the physical act involves joining of 2 bodies and spirits, which can only happen by an agreement, and will eventually result in an exchange of curses, and sicknesses, the two cannot be the same.
The problem of this Pastor, who teaches this, and thinks that he has an advanced revelation of God’s word compared to St Paul; (the apostle) is that he has a bad conscience, and a hardened heart. In the book of 1 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 19, we read:
19 “Holding faith and a good conscience; which some having put away have made a shipwreck”.The Bible tells us that a good conscience is required in other to have a successful Christian life or ministry. If we do not have a good conscience, we end up making a shipwreck of our lives, our faith, and our ministries.
The conscience is the voice of the spirit, and the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts, through the conscience. If week after week, and month after month, we continue to hear only but ignore these injunctions of the Holy Spirit, it means that we have developed a bad conscience and a hardened heart which can only but now wait for certain judgment.
Again, concerning a good conscience, the apostle Peter wrote in 1 Peter chapter3 and verse 21:
21 “The like figure whereunto even baptism now also doth save us (not the putting away of filth of the flesh, but an answer of a good conscience towards God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:”Paul the apostle again summarizes the New Testament commandments, now under grace, and not under the Law of Moses as follows in 1 Timothy chapter1 and verse 5.
5 “Now the end of the commandment is charity (love) out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned”.From all these we can clearly see that a good conscience, is a very vital tool for faith that works, as well as grace that works. If we lack a good conscience, we are bound to become careless and unable to maintain good works. In Titus chapter3 and verse 8, we read:
8 “This is a faithful saying, and these things, I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which believe in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.”It is only a good conscience that helps us to maintain good works, after that we have known that our sins have been forgiven and will be forgiven. However, it is clear that acting out everything we feel like, while ignoring the voice of our conscience will ultimately lead to shipwrecking our lives.
Some Ministers of the gospel frustrate female members of their congregation who refuse to sleep with them.
The ‘Pastor’ gives the potential spouse the impression that they are Jezebel in the church, and those who comply are always rewarded with rich, faithful members.
This is a serious abuse of one’s privileged calling and positioning by God due to a bad conscience.
We also heard of a Pastor who set up a fiancée to a female member he had been trying sleep with, and in spite of the man not cheating on his fiancée, the hypocritical Pastor got false witnesses to whisper to the hearing of the lady that her fiancée cheated on her. He then invited her for counseling, and in that weak moment, took advantage of her.
Such acts and abominations that we were seeing in movies are now rife in the modern day church which has largely been taken over by hirelings and men who were neither called, nor given a heart after God, as he does to His true Pastors.
The consciences of these men are seared, and they will ultimately destroy themselves and their congregation, unless they turn around.
THE VERDICTLet us go back to Roman’s chapter 7 verses 19-24 which I believe is a summary of it all. Jesus is the solution, Jesus conquered sin and lived above it, and the same Jesus became sin for us by taking all our sins on himself. The same Jesus gave us his righteousness for the sins he took away. The same Jesus now says that we are not guilty of any offence, and anytime we are buffeted by sin, that we should look at what he did on the cross. Let us see it in above portion of the scriptures:
19 “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me
21 I find then a law that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind I myself serve the law of God; but with flesh the law of sin”.The verdict is, thank God for Jesus Christ, who is strong when we are weak and has given us the right to lean on his power and strength, and to depend on the work which he has done. Hallelujah. Let us never forget to maintain a good conscience.