Every man and his brother does what they think is right after their own heart. The strong delusion is that the natural man's heart is "deceitful and desperately wicked." There is no reference point for truth because "all have sinned and come short" of salvation. The Spirit of Christ says, "New wine must be put into new bottles". But the carnal mind is enmity against God. These are the tares sown among the wheat. They turn away the shoulder and stiffen their neck at the hard sayings of Christ and separate themselves being sensual, having not the Spirit. No man having drunk from the wells of gratification suddenly desires holiness without which no man shall see God, but rather the natural man says within himself, "the old is better!" Old things have not passed away neither are any new things from God. Only vain deceit. Pastors rule by their wealth, teachers teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money.
E K K L E S I A - Apostolic 253
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