Stubbornness takes many forms, and the worst form is the resistance toward accepting instruction and learning Bible doctrine. And that stubbornness results in you closing down your access to knowledge. Remaining with ones own opinions, refusal to accept teaching, or simply indifference or apathy toward truth, all of these and more, lead to the deep sleep and ultimate blackout of the soul.

Even when God presents in the clearest of terms, and the openness of truth, anything and everything will be shut up and locked up as though it were totally secret, a mystery that cannot be known by anyone.

And so, Bible doctrine, its message and its purpose, are withheld, not because they are difficult or privileged in any way, but because the individual simply has refused to listen, to learn, to keep an open mind.

The spiritually negative persons, in effect, lock themselves out.

Their prevention is not external, but internal, as the result of their own doing.



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