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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Ways to fight the flesh: 1. Meditate on the cross to see the rottenness of your sin and the fullness of Christ's love. 2. Keeping watch against sin's deceit. 3. Filling your affections with heavenly things. 4. Applying your will to every means of God's grace to fight temptation. 5. Renewing your first love for Jesus. 6. Hungering for a glimpse of God's holy glory. 7. All these must be combined with FAITH.
Kris Lundgaard

Both tradition and truth inform the conscience, so the standards it holds you to are not necessarily biblical ones (1 Corinthians 8:6-9). The conscience can be needlessly condemning in areas where there is no biblical issue. In fact, it can try to hold you to the very thing the Lord is trying to release you from (Romans 14:14, 20-23)!
John MacArthur