Professing but not possessing
Cf. 2 Pet. 2:22 ‘a dog returns to its own vomit, and, a sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.' This man has not experienced the results of grace. There has been no change of nature and interprets all (biblical) things by his unregenerate flesh.
There are many on this earth professing to have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ but have no conversation with Him nor do they read His Book, sitting on the shelf collecting dust. They really need to rethink the facts concerning that relationship. They give a false testimony to the people around them and hold false views about what the verses actually say. They rely on those they trust to have the correct interpretation and unfolding of the scripture that have to be spiritually discerned according to God in 1 Cor. Their lives are a mess and that is what the people close to them see. Their friends then attribute that mess to the power of the Gospel while they see the mud all over the pig and the dog eating its own vomit.
As the saying used to go when I was a kid "Get Real."
There are many on this earth professing to have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ but have no conversation with Him nor do they read His Book, sitting on the shelf collecting dust. They really need to rethink the facts concerning that relationship. They give a false testimony to the people around them and hold false views about what the verses actually say. They rely on those they trust to have the correct interpretation and unfolding of the scripture that have to be spiritually discerned according to God in 1 Cor. Their lives are a mess and that is what the people close to them see. Their friends then attribute that mess to the power of the Gospel while they see the mud all over the pig and the dog eating its own vomit.
As the saying used to go when I was a kid "Get Real."
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