12/30/21 BEWARE YOUR REJECTION OF COUNSEL

12/30/21 BEWARE YOUR REJECTION OF COUNSEL

People do not want to be confronted with their own sins or their attachment to their own sins.

Those who are attached to and practice the vilest, most obvious sins, take offense when someone confronts them with the dangers of those practices.

Those who are attached to and practice borderline, gray area, questionable actions, take offense when someone confronts them with the dangers of those practices.

Let's face it, most people, especially most moral, most religious people don't dive into the deep end of the sin pool or head straight out to the breakers when they start swimming. They usually test the waters in the shallow end or along the shore, then they wade or play in the shallows, then they eventually venture into areas just beyond their supposed safe zone.

It doesn't matter what happens next. They either drown just beyond the safe zone or they move into the deep, from which there is no return.

Not only do they reject sound counsel (from people who have knowledge and understanding), they take offense, they become defensive of their faulty perceptions, they become angry with anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint and they shut off any and all correction, reproof and rebuke.

This is addressed by Jesus in the Gospel of John.
John 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

MEN LOVE DARKNESS
Darkness is the absence of light. Light is knowledge, understanding, truth, wisdom. People love their own viewpoint more than they love God's viewpoint. They want their own way, more than want to learn or follow God's. They love their sin. They love worldliness rather than godliness. To love the world is to hate God.
They love their own way so much that they will not even consider any objections to their way.
They love their way so much that they become angry with anyone who disagrees with their way.
Rather than hungering and thirsting for righteousness, they fill themselves with the husks of their own desires, not even weighing the value of any counsel or criticism.

According to God...
Men love darkness rather than light because, their deeds are evil.
Men hate the light and avoid the light, lest their evil deeds be reproved.
This is the result of sin.
This leads to more sin.
The fact that people do not even consider the validity of any counsel indicates their attachment to their sin.