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Conscience

0 passages across 18 sermons. Ranked by how much of this topic each sermon actually carries — not by date, because the sermon that spent a morning on it and the one that mentioned it in passing are not comparable.

Where it was really preached

PreacherWhenPassages
Isaiah Combs 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 5
Josh Combs 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 4
Gary Wright 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 2
Josh Combs 9 Nov 2025 · 13:1-10 2
Caleb Combs 15 Jun 2025 · 4:13-25 2
Justin Dean 15 Jun 2025 · 4:13-25 2
Jayson Combs 16 Aug 2026 1
Caleb Combs 30 Nov 2025 · 15:14-16:27 1
Mitchell Holmes 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 1
Jayson Combs 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 1
Chuck Lindsey 23 Nov 2025 · 14:1-15:13 1
Josh Yates 9 Nov 2025 · 13:1-10 1
Chuck Lindsey 9 Nov 2025 · 13:1-10 1
Jayson Combs 14 Sep 2025 · 1:12; 14:19; 15:2 1
John Carter 7 Sep 2025 · 3:10-18; 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; 10:9-10; 10:13 1
Josh Combs 15 Jun 2025 · 4:13-25 1
Chuck Lindsey 11 May 2025 · 2:1-16 1
Gary Wright 11 May 2025 · 2:1-16 1

What Josh Combs said show all ✕

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Romans 14 is talking about what we'll call an issue of conscience, a personal conviction, meaning it's to you. This is something that you have a conviction about. You have a principle about. You have an issue of conscience of. And it might have to do with the day of the week. It might have to do with drinking alcohol. It might have to do with eating meat or not. Not eating meat. Maybe you grew up Catholic and you're like, hey, on Fridays I eat fish.

Some of you were raised and grew up like that. Some of you may even have that conviction today. There are others that go, Jesus turned water into wine. What's the problem? So there are these two different opinions, these two different convictions. I look at my family background and I, I know there are many people in my family, some of my friends who have a conviction, an issue of conscience against alcohol because of alcoholism in our family, in our past.

So it would be rude for another Christian to show up to Thanksgiving with alcohol, right? Is it sinful to drink? No. Is it unloving? Is it going to potentially put a stumbling block, verse 13, or a hindrance in the way of a brother? Absolutely. So there is a freedom that we have as believers, but there is an awareness of fellow Christians, of brothers and sisters, of struggles, or of convictions, or of matters of conscience that they may have.

Eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. Don't be like, excuse me, this right here. Was this sacrifice to idols? I'm sorry. I can't partake of that. Paul's saying, you don't need to do that. However, if that unbeliever, verse 28, says to you, this has been offered in sacrifice, then do not eat it for the sake of the one who informed you and for the sake of conscience. Paul says, I do not mean your conscience, but his.