This was adapted from “Great Talk Outlines for Youth Ministry” published by Youth Specialties.

“Your Conscience”
What is Your Conscience?
Literally it means _______Knowing One’s self_____________________.
In the Bible it is refered to a person’s ______Heart_____________________.

Some of you need to understand what God says about your conscience so you can sense Him speaking to you more clearly!

Sometimes we have a _____Clear______________ conscience.
Acts 24:16: So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.
Paul was accused of stirring up the crowds, and this is his from his defense speech.

In the Old Testament, ________David______________, had a clear conscience. He was able to face Saul and hold up proof that he had spared his life—a pretty bold statement!

Sometimes we have a ______Guilty________________ conscience.
A guilty conscience means that we have that ______terrible_________ feeling deep in our ______Guts_________.

Our lives become like some Peanut butter on glass………

***Object Lesson***
Find a piece of plexiglass or I used a storm window that I wasn’t using at the time. Explain to the kids that our conscience is a lot like this piece of glass–it’s clear. Take a spoon and put a glob of peanut butter on the glass. When we sin, its kinda like putting a glob of icky sticky peanut butter on this glass. We have two choices. We can deal with it right away and clean it up. (confess our sins) or we can wait and wait and wait to deal with it. (Start spreading the Peanut Butter with a paper towel across the glass.) But when we do this, we really make a mess. Where we once had a mostly clear conscience we know have a very clouded one, and all because we didn’t want to deal with our one little glob.

Sometimes we have a ________Corrupted________________ conscience.

A corrupt conscience means we have a _____Polluted______ and _____Misguided_______ heart.

Titus 1:15: But to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure.

1 Timothy 4:2: Whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

When we “Sear” our heart, we harden the outside, giving it a crust that makes it difficult to give Love or receive Love.

What’s the Point?
The point is, our conscience affects our personal lives in many ways. It also affects our spiritual lives. When we are not free and clear in our conscience we seriously limit our ability to be a “Healthy” Christ Follower. To live fully is to live a life with no regrets and nothing that can weigh us down in this world.

What are you waiting for? Clear Your Conscience today!