“They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they're dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction.” (2 Peter 2:18 MSG)
Very few humans have the spiritual immunity to stand up to the powers of evil. The rest of us walk through life lackadaisically--unaware of the symptoms and virulence of wickedness. This makes us susceptible.
The worldly are addicted to approval and pleasure. Like those who live in a crack house, we become habituated to degenerate behavior. We’ve seen and been around this stuff so long that we are not bothered by depravity. Even if we move out and get cleaned up, the old lifestyle still holds a certain amount of appeal. It wouldn’t take much for us to be seduced back into the darkness.
“Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, ‘A dog goes back to its own vomit.’" (2 Peter 2:21-22 MSG)
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