John,
Reading through Christian history, I like to touch base with someone that has my safety rope. It seems a prudent thought to me that false religion tries to get in a place only God belongs, and that is in their conscience. Not sure I can get the words correct, but influencing their conscience belongs to God not man.
If any of us can’t do something with a clear conscience, it is sin, and that could be different for each one of us. Your father had liberty that most of God’s people haven’t experienced.
Wendell
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Hi Wendell,
You are right about reading the history that Christianity has provided for the world. It is a snake pit. But Jesus said that God’s people, by the power of the Spirit, would be able take up serpents and not be harmed (Mk. 16:18), so we can go ahead and dive in. He will take care of us.
You are also right about my father. He and other saints walked close enough with God to grow to understand “the liberty of the sons of God”. According to his own testimony, he went too far in that liberty a few times and had to repent and learn to walk in love and consider the hearts of weaker brothers and sisters. But the important thing is that he did learn. And, my, how that has benefited so many souls!
As for your principal point, it frightens me to think of entering into that place in hearts where no one but Jesus belongs. I call it the place of feelings, which is associated with the conscience. To manipulate a child of God’s feelings so that he acts against his conscience is a sin against Christ, and I do not go there. May God save us from ever trespassing into that Most Holy Place.
Thank you for the comments.
Pastor John