Today's encouragement comes from Acts 23:1, where we read these words:
"Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, 'Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.’ “Did the Apostle Paul mean, by his statement above, that he lived with a good conscience since his conversion to Christ, or all of his life (including his pre-Christian years)? I tend to think, the latter. If this is true, then it says some im-portant things about religious conviction.
. . . And that is, that a person may be totally wrong, and yet completely be-lieve that he or she is absolutely right. Only in Jesus may a conscience be truly free, and thoroughly “good”—and this is because only in Jesus is a conscience objectively clean and clear, all in Christ’s shed blood.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Christ's blood only can merit pardon. We please God by repentance but we do not satisfy Him by it.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "Christ's blood only can merit pardon. We please God by repentance but we do not satisfy Him by it.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]
