05/23/24 SIN SEEKS THE LOWEST LEVEL

05/23/24 SIN SEEKS THE LOWEST LEVEL

VERY IMPORTANT!
Here is the problem:
When someone has something in his life, which is either contrary to the will of God (known disobedience, sin), or it is counterproductive to the will of God (a weakness, deception, error), which leads him into darkness and away from light, but the person refuses to accept Biblical correction, rebuke, direction, counsel, then he moves another step away from God.

When anyone takes a step away from God, then it is easier to take another step away from God. Resisting the call of God, hardens that person's heart. When a person hardens his heart against God's truth, his mind is deceived, and he becomes convinced that the lie is the truth and that the truth is a lie.

God tells us that He will allow a person to believe a lie until he cannot believe the truth. The Bible refers to this as being hardened "without remedy." This is the extreme result of rebellion. God does not want us to become reprobate (rejected) or apostate fallen away), but rejection of light is acceptance of darkness, rejection of truth is acceptance of deception (the lie), rejection of right is acceptance of wrong, rejection of good is the acceptance of evil, rejection of God is the acceptance of the god of this world.

The Bible sometimes refers to
Proverbs 1:20-33
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. 

Proverbs 29:1
1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
There is much more to say about this, and I hope to do so in the near future, but I wanted to get this posted now.