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NOVEMBER SERMONS 2026
11-8- Presiding Elder Randy Bain Preaching
11-15- Put Me In The Pool
Numbers 21:1-4 John 5:1-9
11-22- The Table
Exodus 16:1-4 Matthew 14:15-21
11-29- Jesus Is Coming
Malachi 4:5-6 Luke 1:5-17
Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.
SOME THOUGHTS ON HAVING A CONSCIENCE
I can remember seeing for the first time that one of our grandchildren had a conscience. They sneaked into the kitchen—climbed onto the counter—and grabbed one of her grandmother’s famous “monster cookies.”
She thought she was alone, but when I asked, “What are you doing?” the look on her face told the whole story. Despite the cookie crumbs on her shirt, she tried to cover her tracks. She quietly replaced the lid on the jar, slid off the counter, and slinked away in another direction.
She had been caught red-handed. While she tried to mask her guilt—like Adam and Eve hiding in the garden when God came looking for them—she knew she was guilty of doing something wrong.
To be honest, I was glad she felt that way because it meant her conscience was supple enough to know right from wrong.
Paul writes about the importance of our conscience in Romans 2:
“...the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness.” (Romans 2:15”
Conscience has a small vocabulary consisting of just two words: right and wrong. Everyone knows what’s right, and everyone does what’s wrong. Conscience accuses us of breaking God’s law even if we don’t know the Bible.
This is a valid argument for the existence of God since a moral law implies a moral law-giver. There can be no right or wrong apart from God because there is no one with sufficient authority to determine right from wrong. If an ultimate authority doesn’t exist, everyone gets to choose what’s right and wrong for themselves. This sounds good at first, but it goes against our better judgment.
For example, most people agree that torturing children for pleasure is wrong. It is not enough to say torturing children for pleasure is wrong for you, but not for me. We instinctively know that torturing children for pleasure is objectively wrong, for all people, for all time.
For this to be true, however, there must be an ultimate authority to say so. The best explanation for right and wrong is God. God has written his law on our hearts, making it impossible to ignore. He has given us a conscience, so we cannot plead ignorance.
Rejoice that you have a conscience, my friends!
Bishop Jeff Greenway