The conscience is the most recognizable inner sense of our spirit. The conscience is of the spirit and functions in all men, even before regeneration. The knowledge gained by Adam eating of “The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil” is the source of that information that is passed onto all of us as his descendents. Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. This knowledge is a function of the conscience.

Paul confirms that the conscience is active in the heathen unbeliever. Romans 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their (the heathen) hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another. We have an example here in Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts…

The Apostle Paul says he lived by his conscience. Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost (Spirit).

It is important to keeping our conscience clean. It’s the gateway between your soul and your spirit, where Christ dwells.  Our conscience gives us a sense of hurt within when it is convicting us – we know it within when our conscience is dirtied and hindered. We are not able to have an assurance toward God and thus we shy away from fellowship with the Lord and even with other Christians.

Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind (of soul) and conscience (of spirit) is defiled (dirtied).

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil (hurtful, hindered) conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

Yet, we must turn our heart to the Lord – Only He is able to restore us to fellowship by cleansing our consciousness. When we humbly and honestly turn to Him, the light and the life of Christ flows through my purged conscience into our soul to refresh and restore us. As He flows His Spirit cleanses us, but not with blood; it is with the “pure water of the spirit.” The blood has done its job 2,000 yrs ago. We simply need restoration to union with Christ within us.

Heb 9:14 …more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge (cleanse) your conscience (consciousness) from dead (separated) works to serve the living God?

The inner union that a believer has by Christ’s indwelling his spirit is an unction (anointing) that is all sufficient in providing us what we need to know, when we need to know it. When Paul says “ye know (eido, know by a sense-knowing) all things” Below Paul says, by this anointing of Christ’s Spirit within us, we know what we need to know in order to live in accord with the will of the indwelling Lord.

1 John 2:20-21 But ye have an unction (anointing) from the Holy One (Christ), and ye know (eido, by a sense) all things. I have not written unto you because ye know (eido, sense-know) not the truth, but because ye know (eido, sense-know) it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

It is also clear that the anointing is of Him – the person of Christ within us. 1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Our “abiding in Him” – is our abiding in union with Him. That union is of our soul abiding dependent upon, trusting in and clinging in Christ who is joined to our spirit. It is by that maintained connection that we “know all things,” needing not to have anyone teach us.