God is the flowing fount of “life” … who gives us the “light of life.” His light flows from our Spirit shining into our heart’s mind.
“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.” (Psalm 36:9)
“Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:” (1 Timothy 1:19 (KJV)
Those who teach that salvation can be lost use this verse to say that unless we maintain a tight grip on the faith that saved us, we will make shipwreck of the faith and lose our eternal life.
It will help us to read v19 in context.
God has put an invisible beeper, a conscience, inside every human being, which warns us when we’re about to do something wrong. At his second appearance before the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther stated about his stand, “To go against conscience is neither right nor safe.”
A Multi-part Study - The Bible reveals that God is not some ethereal creature that we cannot at all relate to. Actually, God is a living being who, like us, has emotions and desires. He also is innately righteous, as the consistent lover of others. Out of His desire He flows outward with righteous love, life, and light to others.
DISPENSATIONS EVENTS ON EARTH | BEGINNING EVENT & WITH WHOM | DISPENSATIONAL REQUIREMENT | FAILURE | RESULTANT JUDGMENT |
1. Innocence - sinless |
With the "knowledge of good and evil" man came into the possession of conscience. A sense of blameworthiness smites every man when he commits, or even contemplates committing, evil. This has been so ever since.
Thus the Bible tells us that even the most ungodly and benighted heathen “show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another” (Rom. 2:15).
Romans 8:2 For the law (regulating principle) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law (spontaneous regulating principle) of sin and death (in the flesh).
Definition: "Kardia: 'the heart' (English, 'cardiac,' etc.), the chief organ of physical life ('for the life of the flesh is in the blood,' Lev. 17:11), occupies the most important place in the human system.
By an easy transition the word came to stand for man's entire mental and moral activity, both the rational and the emotional elements. In other words, the heart is used figuratively for the hidden springs of the personal life.
We as believers should well know that all our sins, past, present and yet future, have been fully and effectively paid for by the precious shed blood of "the Lamb of God" on our behalf. But in this paper Andrew Murray deals with the aspect of our bodies being washed.