In our passage, we find Paul beginning to make a defense against his accusers in Corinth.
The false apostles there were repudiating his theology; his morality and his motives. Paul answers all these charges by making reference to one clear proof of his innocence: the testimony of our conscience.
The only testimony that could give a reliable account of Paul's pure motives on behalf of his ministry work to the Corinthians would be the testimony of his conscience and the witness of the Corinthians themselves. And that is exactly what and who he appeals to.
As Christians, we want to recognize the powerful testimony of a pure life and a clear conscience.
The conscience plays a major role as a moral warning system in our lives. Without the conscience, man has no hope of seeing his or her need for a Savior.
Since the conscience plays such an important and integral role in the salvation of man and the ongoing sanctification of all Christians, it should not suprise us that the conscience has been under attack for years in our culture.
Satan's strategy for destroying the role of the conscience has come through a campaign designed to demonize it in our culture while urging people to rid it and the guilt it produces from our lives.
The Enemy knows that if he can get you to ignore your conscience long enough, it will become numb and eventually seared altogether.
As a result of Satan's work in our culture, the conscience may be the most under-appreciated and least understood attribute of humanity.
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