Many say that they "love" the truth, yet when it is presented to them, and it is something that is inconvenient, or makes them feel "uncomfortable," they reject it, and lean unto their own understanding. If you are deceived, it is because you choose to be! God will send many warnings, and yes, He may even use your OWN children (humility check!), but if people continue to reject His truth, God will allow them to remain in their prideful state. "This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing" (Jeremiah 13:10). The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice (Proverbs 12:15). Self righteousness = pride. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18). It is URGENT that we get right with God! This is not a game, it's a serious matter of life and death! No one can serve two masters!
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain (1 Tim 6:3-5).
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