THE PROSECUTOR WITHIN PART TWO

Ever feel like your inner voice is judging you instead of helping? 

We unpack why guilt and shame can trap, how they twist your thoughts, and how God’s grace can free your conscience—so you stop beating yourself up and start living with peace and integrity.

Transcript

Masks, Shame, And Gaslighting

The Prosecutor Within Explained

Origins Of Guilt In Genesis

Sin Nature And The Law

Learning Death And Evil Co‑Perception

Self‑Condemnation And Inner Accusation

Paul’s Inner Conflict In Romans 7

Words, Co‑Perception, And Reality

Conscience In The Old Testament

God Tries The Heart And Reins

Judgment By Intent And Conscience

Only You Can Condemn Yourself

Christ Our Advocate And High Priest

From Dead Works To Cleansed Conscience

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People who are constantly or often burdened with a guilty conscience, they can prove to be you know very challenging to deal with or to interact with. The reason is that their inner turmoil would manifest in their behavior. You see you see a lot of narcissists, right? That you they deal with shame, okay? There's a lot of shame going on in their lives. There's so much turmoil inside of them, they have to wear a mask half of the time or all the time to pretend as if they are better than who they constantly are. But by the time they go back home, they they can they barely sleep at night. TV has to be very loud because they can't really face themselves. Do you understand what's going on with them? Is the prosecutor within. They are so ashamed of themselves. That's the reason why they always want to gaslight you because they don't want to come you know in face to face with that truth. You know, it's not that they don't know what they are doing to you or that they're evil. Do you get they know, but they don't want to admit it. Why? Because of the prosecutor within. Do you understand? Their inner turmoil will often manifest in their behavior because it makes them difficult to understand or even for you to engage with effectively. You're trying to talk to them, they will just say something else. You're like, is this person even thinking? Like you're really confused. You're looking at them like this, then they're trying to gaslight you with meaningless interactions or meaningless topics or meaningless explanations. Do you get? See, it's because of the internal conflicts you know that they are going through. The prosecutor within, that is what's going on with them. That's how to know that somebody has a troubled conscience. Because see, man was not originally created with an evil conscience or a guilty conscience. A guilty conscience is an evil conscience. Yes. A guilty conscience, especially in this dispensation, and I'm going to prove it to you, is an evil conscience. Man was not originally or inherently created with an evil conscience or with a guilty conscience. He learned that behavior somewhere. Where did he learn it from? We've seen in the book of Genesis that God created Adam and Eve and He placed them in the Garden of Eden. Okay, he gave them only one commandment not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But they disobeyed God's command, and of course, they ate from the forbidden tree, and it is not an apple tree. It is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That means that the fruit is called the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. It is not an apple tree. Okay, so as a result of their disobedience, right? Adam and Eve, their relationship with God was broken. They experienced spiritual well, spiritual death because they were now separated from God. They now had a an evil conscience, which is a guilty conscience. They also now had a sin nature, they no longer had the nature of God. They were expelled from the garden of Eden, subjected to toil and hardship. But let me tell you, this was just the beginning because you see that the consequences of Adam and Eve's sin extended to all humanity, you know, throughout time, and it touched everything on the earth. So people now had a sinful conscience or a sin nature, and then they had the tendency towards sinfulness because I mean it's their nature, so that's what they knew, and that was the reason why God had to make sure that the law came out for people to understand and say, Listen, guys, this is not alright. Do you get this is not alright? You can't just wake up and do anything you want. You're angry with a man, you kill him. That's it. Do you understand? It's not alright, and then he has to start making a nation out of them to show them what is good or what is right, right? Now, God looked at the state of man in his sin nature, and he exclaimed in Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 9, he says, The heart is deceitful above all things, and and the consequence of Adam and Eve's sin was that they were to die, spiritual death, and of course, physical death, just as God had warned them. Yet, do you know? According to the Bible, Adam still lived to be over 900 years old before he died physically. That's the point I want to make. Genesis chapter 5, verse 5 says that Adam lived a total of 930 years and then he died. That means that it took Adam that long for him to master the sin nature and eventually learn how to die. Do you understand? One of the things that humanity had to master, you know, was a an evil co-perception. Remember, this is part of co-perception. They had to start seeing or aligning their perspective with the seen nature, and it took Adam that long to die. And if you notice afterwards, you see you notice that the people after Adam they started dying, like you know, the years were lesser and lesser. Some were now living 700 years, 600 years, 500 years, and so on and so forth. And now people die at 70, 60, 40, 20 people die at any age. It doesn't seem like there is any barrier anymore. So it took us over 5,000 years, maybe, or 4,000, 5,000 years to do what? To learn to die. People learned to speak evil. How? Because they were dwelling in guilt. The evil conscience kept on pricking them, poking them, calling them names. Have you ever sat down one day and looked at yourself and said, Oh, I'm so stupid, oh, I'm so crazy, I'm so this and all of that. And you feel it that you slap yourself or you pinch yourself. That's an evil conscience. They dwelt in guilt and they began to entertain wicked thoughts until they started acting them out. See, this is satanic alignment and satanic co-perception, and it is what we call and what the Bible calls an evil conscience. An evil conscience will lead people to condemn and accuse themselves just as Satan would, as if they were complete strangers to themselves. How do you talk to yourself as if you are another person? Do you understand? Have you ever noticed yourself speaking negatively to yourself as if you were someone else? It's just like the story of the man with the two girlfriends I just shared with you, right? You condemn the same things that you chose to allow. Romans chapter 7, verse 15 to 20 says Paul expresses his inner conflict. Look at the way he puts it. This is new international version. I don't really understand myself. For I want to do what is right, but I don't do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong. It is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can't. I want to do what is good, but I don't. I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don't want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong. It is sin living in me that does it. What a struggle. What a struggle between the sin nature and and I mean, Paul here is born again. So he was talking about the fact that the sin nature keeps creeping up even if he was born again. Okay, now I want to say this when you keep speaking evil of yourself internally, co-perception is what we're talking about. So of course we have to uproot this evil, you know, we have to uproot it. This prosecutor within, we need to find a way to deal with the situation, okay? So when you speak evil of yourself internally, it will limit your potential for growth. Because God created you as a speaking spirit. Now your spirit is speaking, but is speaking evil. How do you want to manifest good? You will only manifest evil. Do you understand? Your words are powerful and they shape your reality. So if you have a corrupt heart, it will not speak good things, it would only be inclined towards evil thoughts, evil words, evil actions. When you commit it, it's going to accuse you, accuse you, because the whole point of the sin nature is to keep you down so that you end up your life entirely here, will end up, you end up going into the underworld. But thank God for the blood of Jesus. So the prosecutor within, which is the conscience, will incessantly accuse. In the Old Testament, we hardly find the word conscience. We find conscience in the New Testament, but to see the term exactly like that, you don't really find it. But what we find, just like in our definition of terms, we find the word heart, we find reigns, R-E-I-N-S, okay, which will carry implications of your spirit or of your conscience or your consciousness in several instances, right? For example, in 1 Samuel chapter 24, verse 5, there is a moment where the Bible says that David's heart smote him, okay, after he had cut off King Saul's skirt. There's another verse where David's heart is described as smiting him again after he commits the error of numbering the people. Okay, so you see also in the Old Testament that the conscience is like a guiding force. I told you that's how God, you know, expected or allowed them, or people were encouraged to work. You know the law, and then once you know what the law says, your conscience will be the guiding force. Okay, Job chapter 27, verse 6. There's another instance where Job declares his resolve to maintain integrity, and this is how he says it. He says, My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live. In other words, I'm going to be so full of integrity that my heart will never get a chance to do what? To reproach me or to accuse me. My conscience is never going to prick me. That that should actually be a way to live, right? But that was in the Old Testament. Okay. I know some of you live like that today, and you think that's the right way, and I'm I'm going to prove to you that the Bible thinks differently, or the Bible says differently. Okay, so he says, My heart shall not reproach me for as long as I live. Second Samuel chapter 24, verse 10. David's response to his troubled conscience shows his humility and his repentance. Now, there are a few instances where the term reigns is used in reference to human conscience, human conscience, and this particular point is very key. Just listen to this Psalm chapter 7, verse 9. He says, Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just for the righteous, God trieth the hearts and reins. Wow, do you know what it means? It means that I mean the reins and the hearts refers to the spirit now and the conscience of your own conscience. What the Bible is saying is that God will examine your conscience to discern your righteousness. Hey, that's how he did it in the Old Testament, and that's how he will do it in the New Testament. I'm telling you, there's a way. In the Old Testament, they were given the law, right? And then once they knew the law, their conscience is what oh my goodness, this God is amazing. Because here we see how the justice of God plays out. When God judges, he will judge according to the testimony of the inward man. Is according to the testimony of the inward man, according to your conscience. You know how people come, you have an issue with a friend, or maybe with your husband or with your wife, they are guilty. You both know that they are guilty, but instantly they deny it. They deny it, or they start to fabricate one kind of story, and they go round and round and round and round. That even you now become confused. At the end of the day, you even have to tell them sorry. Sorry, I misunderstood you. And they go away scot-free without apologizing and doing you harm. God will not make that kind of mistake. God is not a man. Do you understand? God will not make that kind of mistake because as they are leaving you, those people, whoever it is that did that thing to you, right? As they are leaving you, their conscience is pricking them. And do you know what they are doing? They're saying, Oh God, forgive me. They are making a sign of the cross. And those that ignore their conscience, because their conscience is pricking them. But the people that ignore their conscience, what happens? It said that their hearts become hardened. And what do what happens to a hardened heart? It becomes unrepentant. That person is even more dangerous to themselves because they have chosen that they are going to go to the underworld in spite of it all. It's a very, very dangerous thing to do. So now we're seeing in the scriptures here that this is how God does it. He judges according to the testimony of the inward man and the voice or the conscience of a man. It means that God will see your true intentions and he would evaluate you based on your conscience. I used to talk about this a lot that God judges by the intents of the heart. Do you understand? He judges by the intents of the heart. In a situation, let me give you an example. If you have a problem with somebody, right? And the situation was so, so bad, right? And it hurts you so deeply. And then in your prayer time, you start to tell God, God, kill this person. God, let this person die. God, let this person die. The way God will judge will not be based on your hurt. It will not be based on your pain. I mean, there may be facts that that pain exists and this person really caused you harm, whether it's physical or otherwise, right? It will not be based on your pain. It will not be based on your hurt. It will be based upon the intent of their heart. I mean, this is even close to justice, the normal justice, and the worldly justice, because they always want to establish men's rear, which is intention. They want to establish it. The court always wants to establish it. So if the intent is not there, they will say, Oh, it's not murder, it's manslaughter. Do you understand? You'll say it was just a mistake, one thing or the other. So you want to always establish it, but God will go straight. You see, He's not even going to question you. Your normal self is busy. You are busy trying to hide the lies. You even lie to yourself, like you lie, you don't even know what is the truth again. Do you understand? You lie to yourself, you have painted the picture so much. Do you understand? And then now you don't even know what you can't even separate the truth from the lie again. But God can. He will just go straight to your heart, to your conscience. What happened here? And your conscience will talk. Do you understand? And it will just come, and he will judge according to the testimony of the inward man. So God will see your true intention and he will evaluate you based on your conscience. So it's important that your conscience. I mean, this is important because your conscience can either condemn you or justify you. If you constantly feel guilty about your actions, then you're essentially convicting yourself. This is the prosecutor within. It's a very dangerous thing for a man, especially if his conscience is constantly accusing him. Because it is you alone that has the power to condemn and convict yourself. This is why giving your life to Christ, you know, you have to make that declaration. You have to say, Lord Jesus, come into my heart. You know, you have to accept him by yourself. You have to say it, you have to do this thing by yourself. So people come to Christ and they pretend as if they came to Christ and then they go back and all of that. At the end of the day, nobody can lie before God. Like when we stand before God, we're going to when we stand before God, it's not going to be this body. You know, this in this body, we can hide so many facts. Our thoughts are not seen like in bubbles, the way we see in in comics, right? So you can hide a lot of things. You can hide your thoughts, you can hide your behavior, your mannerisms, and then you can also hide, use your words, and cover up a lot of things. But when we stand before God, we are going to see him as he is, and he'll see us as we are. So the person that is going to be talking will not be you the outward man, it will be the inward man. Your conscience is clear before God. Do you understand? Maybe people say my conscience is clear before God. It makes sense now, right? Conscience is clear before God. Anyways, so what it means is that you alone have the power to convict or to condemn yourself, and therefore your co-perception matters in the scheme of things. If you have a co-perception of evil, you will convict yourself. That's the reason why in the New Testament God had to join himself with us so that we can have co-perception with him and we can speak ourselves to victory. God helps us, you know, to align our thoughts with his so that we can speak positively about ourselves and claim victory. If you don't have anything positive to talk about yourself, keep saying that I am saved, delivered, the blood of Jesus covers me. That's what you should say every day. Do you understand? Otherwise, your heart will bear witness against you, and there is nothing that God can do about it but to judge you and judge you correctly. It's a witness now. If a judge is sitting down and then you're bringing your case before him, he's not going to help your case. The judge is not going to help your case. Do you understand? He's not going to call witnesses for you or tell you how you're going to, you know, do your case so that you're going to win the case. You have to go and get your witnesses, you know, you have to get yourself together, put yourself together, and present your case in court properly so that you can win that case. All right? That's the reason why Jesus is our advocate and the high priest of our confession. Jesus' work is to monitor your confession. He's administering and maintaining your confession of faith in the New Testament. Glory to God. I told you God is so awesome and wonderful. And the role of Jesus as our advocate and high priest is to support our faith to ensure that we are judged correctly and fairly. Remember, we're talking about the few instances where the term reigns is used in reference to human conscience. The second verse of scripture is Jeremiah chapter 11, verse 20. It says, But O Lord of hosts, that judges righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them. For unto thee have I revealed my cause. So this is similar to the one we just read, Psalm 7, verse 9, because it talks about God as the one who examines the conscience along with the heart, and he would thoroughly scrutinize your innermost thoughts and your intentions for judgment and for vengeance and for recompense. Okay. Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 10. I the Lord, I search the heart, I try the reins. Try is a legal term. Okay, when you see somebody goes on trial, he says, when you're on trial before God, he says, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. People, people of God, fear God, fear God. Okay, because you see his role here as the ultimate judge, he scrutinizes both the heart and the reins. There is nothing that is hidden before God. Right? There's nothing that is hidden before God. So all that we have said is that before someone accepts Jesus into their heart, they have an inner voice called their own conscience. That's the voice of the spirit. But then they also have the voice of the sin nature because now they have a sin nature and they are one with the sin nature. Okay, sin is an evil spirit, right? And now they are one with that if with that evil spirit, with the sin nature. So when they talk, they have co perception with the sin nature. Do you understand now? They have co perception, and these voice. Voices will often conflict within them. Sometimes you see the evil, the evil nature or the sin nature will talk, then the the good part of them will start to say, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then they are there. Have you seen yourself doing that kind of thing where you're you're arguing back and forth, you're advising yourself of the good thing, and then you now see the other side of you, and you end up doing the evil thing, just like Paul has said. When you give in to your sin nature like that, you become more inclined towards evil. But if you resist your sinful nature and you listen to your conscience, then it acts as a prosecutor and it makes you feel guilty for your wrong actions. Hopefully, you repent of it and turn away from your sins. That's hopefully okay. But we find that in the Old Testament it was difficult. In spite of the work of the prosecutor within, it was still difficult. In fact, Jesus even called the Bible even calls the work of the prosecutor within dead works because it could not save the people, it could not save them. It was still, you know, I mean, where have you seen that you keep keep on criticizing somebody and the person will really change or the person will be good? It doesn't always turn out okay. Okay, it's dead works. All right. So even though unregenerated people they try to live right according to their conscience, they still struggle with the sinful nature, and this makes them inherently ungodly. All right. The sacrifices that were made in the Old Testament or in the Old Covenant, it could not cleanse their conscience because of this ongoing conflict, because they already have a sin nature. But Jesus, as the high priest, what did he do? He entered the perfect sanctuary with his own blood, glory to God, and he obtained eternal redemption for us. So his sacrifice was so powerful that not only did he remove our sinful nature, glory to God, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus. But do you know what it did? It cleansed our conscience from dead works, from worthless actions. It was worthless. So now, our conscience, no matter how active, it can't change you. Now understand this now. We have come out from the old testament. This is now after the new testament is after the after the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus, right? Now, as a born-again Christian, you no longer have a sin nature. The work of Jesus on the cross has removed the sin nature from you. Not only did you remove the sin nature, it cleansed your conscience from dead works or worthless actions. Do you understand? Now the sin nature that you have, you no longer have it. Now you are one with God. You are now one with God. Your conscience is now purified, allowing you to serve God faithfully. The old sacrifices of the old covenant could not purge the conscience to make it right because of the presence of the sin nature. But in Hebrews chapter 9 from verse 11 to 15, it explains that Christ, as the high priest of good things to come, he entered into a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with human hands. The work of Jesus was so great that not only did he take away the sin nature, I told you, he purged and cleansed our conscience from dead works, the work that the conscience was doing as the prosecutor within. The work of convicting, accusing, smiting the old man is what the Bible calls dead works. It had no value. The conscience of a man, no matter how active, could never change a man apart from the work of the blood of Jesus. I mean, you know a lot of people who are who live like this still today now. Their conscience is smiting them. The more their conscience smites them, the more they bone, and they still do it because they want to the sin nature is rebelling. So they keep on doing it, and the more they do it, the more hardened their heart is. That is how narcissists come about to the point that they even they themselves can no longer recognize themselves again. They don't even know who they are anymore, they don't even know who is talking through them anymore because they are far gone from God. The blood of Jesus offered without blemish through the eternal spirit is so powerful that it has the power to cleanse our consciences from dead works and enabling us to serve the living God. This is Hebrews chapter 9 from verse 13.