YOU ARE CLEANSED Part 2

Continued from YOU ARE CLEANSED Part 1, Page 1

GRACE washes over us, wave after wave, and it’s absolutely transformative, effortless, and life-changing. Under Grace, we are changed from the inside out, effortlessly becoming what we’ve never been; humble, thankful, and absolutely grateful. The Father’s goodness compels us to repentance, and goodness within us happens, it flows BECAUSE WE HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE.

“Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?” Romans 2:4

Dreams, hopes, and desires are birthed in our hearts and imaginations, but only if our conscience is CLEAN. On the other hand, dreams, hopes, and desires die in an unclean conscience, producing only dead works. Our hearts and imaginations are not our consciences, not even close. However, it’s absolutely imperative that you know you have a clean conscience because if not, IT WILL negatively affect your heart and imagination..

“I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.” Romans 9:1-2

In the fall of man, we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, AND we got a conscience. We fell from Grace. Getting a conscience meant we were separated from God. “Death” and all his evil friends came along too. Having an unclean conscience made us weak and vulnerable, and through an unclean conscience, satan has a place to attack us from.

Titus 2:11 "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,"

Our weaknesses originate from our fallen conscience, which is filled with DEAD WORKS (self-righteousness, judgment, and criticism). Jesus came to SAVE US, and as a consequence, we get a clean conscience.

“And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.” 1 Corinthians 8:12

With an unclean conscience, knowing good and evil, man became critical, judgemental, selfish, greedy, hateful, petty, narcissistic, and self-righteous in his own conscience. Consequently, “man,” in all of his self-righteousness, began to judge God as if he could.

“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:1-5

By being removed from the Garden, man lost GRACE & TRUTH. But Adam did not leave Eden empty-handed, nope! He picked up that pesky unclean conscience in the exchange. Adam did not need a conscience in Heaven, but because he and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they received an unclean conscience and ruined it for all of us. They received it so THEY could deal with the judgment between “good and evil,” but that meant ALL people, from Adam on, would receive an unclean conscience too. From that point on, until Jesus came to deliver us, everything was rigged against man.

“To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.” Titus 1:15

BELIEVERS are the Righteousness of God in Christ - Jesus did that. Think about it, for those who are IN CHRIST, life is VERY GOOD. As a matter of fact, it’s rigged in the BELIEVER's favor. God’s smallest smidgen of Grace is BIGGER THAN ALL SIN. Through Grace, Jesus conquered sin, ALL OF IT. While the world fights hard for no victory, BELIEVERS fight effortlessly FROM VICTORY, having already received N CHRIST.

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,” Ephesians 3:20

A Tsunami of Grace is heading to earth. I see a Tsunami wave, a surfers paradise coming to flood the earth with the LOVE OF GOD.

“and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” Romans 5:5

The Bible declares that Jesus came to save the ungodly. Jesus says He made the unGodly, godly. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, AND HE DID. Jesus is the light of the world. God is LIGHT, and He is LOVE. Starting with Jesus, all BELIEVERS are filled with the LIGHT of God and filled with His love, poured out in our hearts, AND THEIR CONSCIENCE IS CLEAN. For the BELIEVER, there is no more conscience of sin because his/her conscience HAS BEEN CLEANSED, once and for all.

“Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”
Acts 23:1

Through the Cross, Jesus paid our FULL debt; HE took all our curses, sins, diseases, infirmities, weaknesses, lack, betrayals, offenses, failures, and faults. JESUS TOOK EVERYTHING BAD AND EVIL UPON HIMSELF ON THE CROSS, and He left it ALL in hell. Jesus missed nothing. Therefore, ALL man’s trespasses are paid, covered, and accounted for. Jesus justified us, meaning we are cleansed and acquitted, free from all guilt, condemnation, and shame FOREVER. For those under grace, it is obviously RIGGED IN OUR FAVOR.

“But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” 1 Timothy 1:5