Conscience

It is a curious thing that children never need to be told how to be disobedient. No parent instructs their child this way : "Now my son (or daughter), I want you to oppose me, and do everything you can to destroy my good and orderly instructions . . .". What usually happens is a slow and painstaking process of training, correction, discipline and warning, for up to 17 or so years, when the child is able to leave home …

…who died to take our sins, who paid the full price for our violation of the Moral Law (the 10 commandments). If we do not trust in Jesus, on the Day of Judgement we will have no excuse, because our conscience will convict us of breaking every one of those commandments, in thought if not in deed. We will be guilty as charged, and God will, as an indifferent Judge, pass sentence according to our crimes.