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God’s priorities must become part of us

God’s priorities must become part of us.

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God’s priorities must become part of us

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  1. God’s priorities must become part of us • (Romans 12:1-2 NKJV)“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. {2} And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

  2. God’s priorities must become part of us • Consider how God shows His priorities. (1 Pt 3:3-4)

  3. God’s priorities must become part of us • Consider how God shows His priorities. (1 Pt 3:3-4) • This is a "not .. but" verse. These are two things that God says is not of equal value.

  4. God’s priorities must become part of us • (1 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV) “Do not let your adornment be merely outward; arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel; {4} ratherlet it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.”

  5. God’s priorities must become part of us • (John 6:26-27 NKJV) “Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. {27} “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.””

  6. God’s priorities must become part of us • (Matthew 6:19-20 NKJV) “”Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; {20} “but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.”

  7. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • What is a conscience?

  8. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • What is a conscience? • "suneidesis" - the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad, prompting to do the former and shun the latter, commending one, condemning the other.

  9. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • What is a conscience? • "suneidesis" - the soul as distinguishing between what is morally good and bad, prompting to do the former and shun the latter, commending one, condemning the other. • The conscience is a judge based upon previous training and experience. (Rom 2:14-15)

  10. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Romans 2:14-15 NKJV) “for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, {15} who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusingthem)”

  11. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • A good conscience will make you feel bad by just thinking a thing.

  12. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • A good conscience will make you feel bad by just thinking a thing. • A conscience can be trained in a wrong way. You may do bad and feel good or do that which is not sin and feel bad! (Acts 23:1, 26:9; 1 Cor 8:7)

  13. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Acts 23:1 NKJV) “Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.””

  14. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Acts 26:9 NKJV) “”Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.”

  15. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Corinthians 8:7 NKJV) “However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.”

  16. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • A weak conscience is one that has been improperly trained.

  17. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • We fail to have a good conscience in two ways.

  18. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • We fail to have a good conscience in two ways. • We may fail to instill in our hearts what is right. (Heb 8:10; Jas 1:22-25)

  19. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Hebrews 8:10 NKJV) “”For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

  20. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (James 1:22-25 NKJV) “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. {23} For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; {24} for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

  21. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • {25} But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”

  22. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • Here is where our love for God causes us to meditate upon what is pleasing to Him.

  23. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • Here is where our love for God causes us to meditate upon what is pleasing to Him. • There are times when Christians love the world more than God. In this kind of heart they proclaim freedom from "rules." (1 Jn 2:15-17)

  24. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 John 2:15-17 NKJV) “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. {16} For all that is in the world; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life; is not of the Father but is of the world. {17} And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”

  25. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • We may weaken and even destroy the conscience through doing those things we know are wrong. (1 Tim 4:1-2; Tit 1:15-16)

  26. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Timothy 4:1-2 NKJV) “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, {2} speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,”

  27. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Titus 1:15-16 NKJV) “To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. {16} They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.”

  28. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • A Good conscience will give you great blessings.

  29. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • A Good conscience will give you great blessings. • You can know that you have acted properly. (Rom 9:1; 2 Cor 1:12)

  30. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Romans 9:1 NKJV) “I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,”

  31. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (2 Corinthians 1:12 NKJV) “For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.”

  32. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • There is a great strength in looking at others and knowing you have done what was best before them! (Acts 23:1)

  33. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Acts 23:1 NKJV) “Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.””

  34. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • There are limitations to this confidence. We must always seek out to test our confidence by God's word. (1 Cor 4:3-4)

  35. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Corinthians 4:3-4 NKJV) “But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. {4} For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.”

  36. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • You can be strong in adversity. (1 Pt 2:19; 3:16)

  37. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Peter 2:19 NKJV) “For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.”

  38. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Peter 3:16 NKJV) “having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.”

  39. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • What is the source of our strength in these times? We can know that God is with us! (1 Pt 3:12-14)

  40. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (1 Peter 3:12-14 NKJV) “For the eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil.” {13} And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? {14} But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.””

  41. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • In times of grief we can take great comfort in knowing the great God whom we serve will not forsake us.

  42. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • In times of grief we can take great comfort in knowing the great God whom we serve will not forsake us. • What about those who do not have a good conscience? (Prov 28:1)

  43. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • (Proverbs 28:1 NKJV) “The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.”

  44. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • "As Augustine noted, "at times a man's slave, worn out by the commands of an unfeeling master, finds rest in flight. Whither can the servant flee? Himself he carries with him wherever he flees. An evil conscience flees not from itself; it has no place to go to; it follows itself.

  45. Our conscience will reveal what is hidden in our hearts. • Yea he cannot withdraw from himself, for the sin he commits is within. He has committed sin to obtain some bodily pleasure. The pleasure passes away; the sin remains. What delighted is gone; the sting has remained behind. Evil bondage!"

  46. How the conscience will affect our dress • Our dress should reflect a good conscience. (1 Tim 2:9-10) KJV

  47. How the conscience will affect our dress • " In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; {10} But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works."

  48. How the conscience will affect our dress • Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well arranged, seemly.

  49. How the conscience will affect our dress • Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well arranged, seemly. • Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the idea of downcast eyes; a sense of shame or honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard for others, respect.

  50. How the conscience will affect our dress • Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well arranged, seemly. • Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the idea of downcast eyes; a sense of shame or honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard for others, respect. • sobriety - (sophrosune) 1) soundness of mind 2) self-control

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