PHANEROO~DEVOTION 22nd November 2015 CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE Apostle Grace Lubega

[Acts 24:16]; And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.

 I have seen an offence by men who have not yet understood what it means to walk a life void of offence toward God in conscience. The conscience is a place in you which knows. It is not the place in your soul which believes or which hopes. It is the place wherewith the soul is established, the place where God pushes you past hope and faith to knowledge.

When Paul walks with God for a certain period of time, there is this boldness he has that makes him make crazy statements like,"But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.”

This is not faith. Paul knows! It is one thing to believe God for success, but it is another when you know that you are going to succeed. Now the contradiction is in the place of men whose consciences believe what they ought to know. That is offence; to believe what you ought to know.

God wants your conscience to be settled in what you know. It means that you are past believing that you are going to be a success, but you know that you are going to be a success. The dealings of God with you is not the fight of faith.  It is the rest of knowledge.

When Paul tells Timothy “fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses," it is okay, but when Timothy lays hold on eternal life, he no longer has the fight of faith. He now has the rest of knowledge, because with knowledge comes rest. What you know causes you to rest. That is why assurances come after rest; “Be rest assured”.

Now, there are Christians whose consciences are in the direction of faith and have become indifferent to the operation of the life of God in their spirits because they are ignorant of the plains wherewith faith works. Faith doesn’t work in the wisdom plane; faith works in the earthly plane. It is not bad to have faith. It is only bad when your faith is not based on knowledge.

Excerpt from the sermon: PRINCIPLES by Apostle Grace Lubega

It is offence to believe what you ought to know.

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:12

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