The Importance of Your Conscience by J.C. Ryle

Conscience is a most powerful part of our natural constitution. It cannot save our souls. It never leads a man to Christ. It is often blind, and ignorant, and misdirected.

Yet conscience often raises a mighty testimony against sin in the sinner’s heart, and makes him feel that “it is an evil and a bitter thing” to depart from God. Young people ought especially to remember this, and, remembering it, to take heed to their ways. Let them not flatter themselves that all is right, when their sins are past, and done, and forgotten by the world. Let them know that conscience can bring up each sin before the eyes of their minds, and make it bite like a serpent.

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Why does Jesus sometimes tell those he healed to go and tell everyone and in other times, he tells them not to say anything?

Open line on Moody Radio April 11, 2026 Hour 2 @18:00

Question from Listener:

Why does Jesus sometimes tell those he healed to go and tell everyone and in other times, he tells them not to say anything?

Refering to Mark 5:19 versus Mark 5:42-43

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik:

https://www.moodyradio.org/radioplayer.aspx?episode=679948&hour=2

Summary of Answer:

Generally speaking, the Lord tells them not to tell others. Dr Michael Rydelnik reasons from Matthew 16:13-23. In that scripture, Peter confesses that Jesus is the Messiah and he was expecting the Roman government to be overthrown and Jesus would establish his kingdom. In Matthew 16;20, Jesus commanded his disciples to tell no one that He is the Messiah. Why? In Matthew 16:21, Jesus told them in advance that he will be killed and raised the third day. Redemption in Jesus's name is spiritual and the Lord tells them not to tell others especially in the context of the Jews because that would mislead them to believe that faith found in Jesus is fulfilled through a political movement. The demoniac is part of the decapolis and was a gentile area across the Jordan river and the city is on the western side of the Jordan area, the other nine cities were on the eastern side and they were all gentile. It is okay for this non Jewish demoniac to tell others that Jesus has healed them because they were not going to expect a political revolution.

The Christian Duty of Forgiving by J.C. Ryle

There are few Christian duties which are so frequently and strongly dwelt upon in the New Testament as this of forgiveness. It fills a prominent place in the Lord’s prayer. The only profession we make in all that prayer, is that of forgiving “those who trespass against us.”It is a test of being forgiven ourselves.The person who cannot forgive their neighbor the few trifling offences they may have committed against them, can know nothing experimentally of that free and full pardon which is offered to us by Christ. (Matt 18:35; Eph. 4:32)

Not least, it is one leading mark of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The presence of the Spirit in the heart may always be known by the fruits He causes to be brought forth in the life. Those fruits are both active and passive. The person who has not learned to bear and forbear, to put up with much and look over much, is not born of the Spirit. (1 John 3:14; Matt 5:44, 45)

Scripture:

Matthew 18

35“So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

Ephesians 4

32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

1 John 3

14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

Matthew 5

44But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 

All scriptures in NKJV

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