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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.51,0:00:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thirdly, if we are praying this prayer
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.42,0:00:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we might grow in graciousness;
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.12,0:00:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in grace, we are praying
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.67,0:00:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we might progress \Nin conscientiousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.25,0:00:16.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, in responsiveness
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.55,0:00:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and obedience to our own consciences.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.76,0:00:22.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because God has placed that monitor
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.81,0:00:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.70,0:00:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it reproves us when we do wrong,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.19,0:00:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it encourages us when we do right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.35,0:00:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, how is it with your \Nconscience and you tonight?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.14,0:00:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are things between you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.11,0:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that monitor; that voice of God?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.84,0:00:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know there are many consciences,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.17,0:00:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Thomas Boston's words,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.95,0:00:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're too persnickety.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.66,0:00:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They condemn what \NGod's Word doesn't condemn.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.53,0:00:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must educate that conscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.37,0:01:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does the Bible condemn blood transfusions?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.49,0:01:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.18,0:01:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are other consciences
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.30,0:01:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they let anything pass.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.77,0:01:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They let pass what God's Word condemns.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are less sensitive \Nthan they should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.17,0:01:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are much too broad; much too open.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.88,0:01:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, we must always bring our conscience
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.55,0:01:20.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the light of the Word of God.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.93,0:01:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the Puritan illustration then
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.52,0:01:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the sundial?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.74,0:01:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sundial will work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.96,0:01:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it's at the right angle,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.51,0:01:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in regards to the light of the sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.21,0:01:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But on a bright moonlight night,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.94,0:01:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can go out to your garden
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.42,0:01:37.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can look at a sundial,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.86,0:01:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there will be a shadow -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.25,0:01:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a moon shadow.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.07,0:01:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it will give you the \Ntotally wrong reading.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.22,0:01:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's not a moondial,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.39,0:01:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a sundial.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.78,0:01:52.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there is the conscience
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.61,0:01:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the cannibal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.48,0:02:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is the conscience \Nof the abortionist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.28,0:02:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are not living in accord
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.17,0:02:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with what the Word of God
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.21,0:02:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who created the conscience gives to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.71,0:02:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, let's suppose that you have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.77,0:02:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an enlightened conscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.11,0:02:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's suppose that you have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.50,0:02:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the full light of God's Word
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.29,0:02:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on your conscience then.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.10,0:02:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you carefully obeying it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.96,0:02:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you are emotionally disinclined?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.26,0:02:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're lying on the floor
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.14,0:02:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in despondency and sulking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.05,0:02:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and unhappy because your worst fears
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.42,0:02:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are being realized?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.44,0:02:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you're in the depth of depression
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.19,0:02:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and self-pity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.94,0:02:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's a duty that \Nyou have to attend to?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.13,0:02:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a duty. It's very unpleasant.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.92,0:02:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very demanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.36,0:02:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you do what your conscience tells you
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.18,0:02:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you should do?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.02,0:02:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you have the maturity \Nto stand on your emotions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.90,0:02:59.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and reject them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.55,0:03:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the face of their reluctance
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.24,0:03:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and aversion to attend to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.05,0:03:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what God commands us?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.76,0:03:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no greater peril \Nin the Christian life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.77,0:03:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than to make our emotions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.91,0:03:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the touchstone of our duties.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.10,0:03:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And time and again, we have to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.25,0:03:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pick ourselves up off the floor
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.54,0:03:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of discouragement,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.76,0:03:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and say I have a duty,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.73,0:03:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know this is right,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.17,0:03:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm going to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.76,0:03:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or again, let me ask you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.22,0:03:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are you conscientious about small things?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.100,0:03:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there most of all,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.75,0:03:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christians are tested.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.53,0:03:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have huge sacrifices to make,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.06,0:03:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but every day, there are many
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.78,0:03:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little duties that you \Nknow have to be done.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.64,0:03:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have to pay careful attention
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.57,0:03:48.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to matters of detail,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.21,0:03:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because our Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.78,0:03:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He commends people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.35,0:03:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are faithful in little things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.87,0:03:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so often, we are losing the battle
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.02,0:04:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in little things.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.55,0:04:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It might seem to you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.27,0:04:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a big issue to be in prayer meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.56,0:04:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a Wednesday night there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.96,0:04:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It might not seem a big issue
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.14,0:04:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be in Sunday nights of church.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.01,0:04:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A small thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.56,0:04:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It might seem just a little thing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.77,0:04:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ignore writing a letter to someone
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.02,0:04:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say thanks for all your kindness to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.37,0:04:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain things.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.27,0:04:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we must make conscience, then,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.74,0:04:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we are going to grow in graciousness,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.80,0:04:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our conscience - we respect it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.83,0:04:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.