Give not that which is holy unto the
dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under
their feet, and turn again and rend you. [Matthew 7:6 KJV]
What
are the pearls? Spiritual knowledge or
material resources in the form of money, goods and services? Both?
Who
are the swine? Be careful with your
answer. For who, from among us, was not
wallowing in the mud before our Heavenly Father called for them to come out?
Alas,
it would not fulfill His purposes to force anyone to be who they do not want to
be. Therefore, all who would have rather
stayed in the slop will be allowed to return to it.
For it is written: These people are springs without water and mists driven
by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by
appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just
escaping from those who live in error. They
promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people
are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are
worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to
have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn
their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns
to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”
[2 Peter 2:17-21 NIV]
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