I believe our conscience is the arbitrator of motive.
ar⋅bi⋅trate
–verb (used with object)
1. to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.
2. to submit to arbitration; settle by arbitration: to arbitrate a dispute.
–verb (used without object)
3. to act as arbitrator or arbiter; decide between opposing or contending parties or sides.
4. to submit a matter to arbitration.
The blood of Christ has purged our conscience from dead works based on law and self-imposed law. Now, in Christ, we have been predestined unto the adoption of children to do good works. Good works come from a pure motive.
Where does motive come from? What arbitrates motive? Our conscience.
In Christ, our conscience is no longer aware of the judgment or penalty of the law. It has no value of right and wrong. The caveat is our mind does. Our mind remembers. Reference blog, No wonder I keep remembering. Even though our mind remembers and knows, there is no condemnation in Christ in the Spirit. This does not give license to sin. Even though in Christ the conscience does not know what sin is. Motive has changed. If missing the mark or manifestations of the flesh do occur then it could be due to a number of reasons: willful ignorance, ignorance, unregenerate thinking, lack of foundation, no discipleship, unhealthy doctrine, law has been put on the individual, witchcraft, stubbornness, rebellion, fear, self-willed opinion, vain imaginations.
Blogs about the conscience being purged:
Paul says, “To put into oblivion those things which are behind” in Phil. 3. How? Those things which are behind are those things that are attached to the old man and nature. The old nature predicates on the law or self-imposed law. Anything based on self-imposed law is behind and irrelevant. It truly is dead.
The “how” is receiving revelation of a purged conscience and the complete work of Christ. This is why the function and office of the apostle and prophet are important in the Church. They testify and witness the resurrection of Christ. They share the logos or word. They minister sound doctrine. They diffuse and impart power, grace and peace to whosoever. All of this is unto the full stature of Christ.
If I do not have revelatory knowledge of a purged conscience then how will I partake in good works? This revelation gives faith, knowledge, confidence and assurance to whosoever that their conscience is pure. The knowledge has a profound life-changing affect on the recipient. That is what was prophesied in the prophets and restated in Hebrews 10:16, “This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.”
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