The human nature of mankind cannot be disengaged from the Spiritual nature within us, we are spirits with a body, not bodies with a spirit. The unrepentant person will call this a moral construct, an inner knowledge of what is considered good and bad, with evil being a relative construct, never an absolute. Those who have been born again realize these truths.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Gen. 1:27)
The knowledge, or better said, the concept of the knowledge of good and evil is indeed relative to those who are not hid in Christ, and is formulated by many facets, from the nation and culture we were both raised in and live in, to the constructs of it placed within our minds both internally and externally, but the foundations of every moral construct is always this.
Is it good or is it bad.
The main determining factor for either choice is always will it be detrimental or beneficial to me. If one is not held accountable, then bad is never relative as such.
We who are hid in Christ think eternally, and although our moral compass has been modified, we still think in these same terms, bad requires punishment, good elicits rewards.
Now for your question my friends, does the good that you presume you do for the Almighty in your mind bring thoughts of rewards, both in this life and in the life to come? And the bad that you do, do you expect punishment for those actions only here, or in heaven as well?
If we are serving the Lord solely out of a love for Him, why would we ever consider those rewards, either here or there?
In the fulness of dying to self, there is the promise of a hundred-fold more here, in this life, yet there is also the promise of persecutions. Doing good for the glory of the Almighty, if it can be said that we can do any good in the first place, does indeed have its rewards, but we may not initially see them as such.
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” (John 15:18)
Doing bad, which we know as evil if it is willfully done against His will for us, would necessitate punishment here and loss of rewards in heaven. Our moral construct my friends is really no different in these regards to those of the unrepentant, it is simply based on the morality of the Almighty, and that is summed up in this verse.
“Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” (1st Peter 1:16)
The enabled society that is being formulated around us finds it necessary at this time to alter the moral construct of itself, for this singular purpose, so that evil can be called good. But that spark, if I may call it that, of every person ever born being made in the image of God will never allow any alteration to the foundation of the spirit of man. It can enshroud it, it can encapsulate it, it can attempt to cover it, but this verse will always stand as a truth.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Romans 1:20)
His eternal power and godhead are clearly seen by the mind of even the most wicked person who ever lived, it cannot be denied. Satan himself knows this truth.
The heading of your moral compass should be easily seen by all that you meet, for you are no longer of this world. Dying to self means dying to this world, and every moral construct it has designed.
