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actions despite what they know to be the will of God? Have you never observed such an one come
to a point in their life where they deny the truth they once possessed, even turning away from their
profession of being a Christian? Those who are given the light of truth, but choose to walk in
disobedience will find that their understanding will become darkened. The knowledge of God will
be restricted. They will never advance past elementary truths, and they will be in danger of losing
those as well.

The Bible reveals that spiritual truth comes from the Father. To some men truth it is withheld, while
to others free access is granted. Those who are outside the kingdom of God, strangers to the Holy
Spirit of promise, are unable to understand, or receive, spiritual truth.

I Corinthians 2:12-14
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might
know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by
human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and
he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

Being born of the Spirit of God is a prerequisite for receiving the thoughts of God. Yet, spiritual
birth alone is insufficient to guarantee that the Christian will be granted access to divine truth. If a
Christian walks like a natural man, they will be treated like a natural man. The mysteries of God will
remain mysteries to them. Carnal Christians often behave as scoffers when divine truth is spoken to
them.

In the book of Isaiah, the prophet declared to the people of Israel that Yahweh had removed from
them discernment and wisdom because they were walking in sin and had embraced idolatry.

Isaiah 29:10-14
For Yahweh has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He
has covered your heads, the seers. And the entire vision shall be to you like the words of a sealed
book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, "Please read this," he will say, "I
cannot, for it is sealed." Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, "Please read
this." And he will say, "I cannot read." Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their
words and honor Me with their lip service, but they remove their hearts far from Me, and their
reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote, therefore behold, I will once again deal
marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be concealed."

Yahweh will do the same thing to Christians who do not surrender their lives to follow the path He
has chosen for their perfecting. There are myriads of Christians who seek to serve both God and
mammon. Having come to confess faith in Christ, there is little fundamental change in the course
of their lives. They continue to pursue the desires of their soul. They work where they choose, live
where they choose, date or marry whomever they please, pursue worldly entertainment as they did
before coming to Christ, spend money on whatever their soul desires. They then wonder why the
Bible remains such a closed book to them.