Ephesians 4:19
19 Who [hostis] being past feeling
[apalgeo] have given [paradidomi] themselves [heautou] over [paradidomi] unto lasciviousness, [aselgeia] to [eis] work [ergasia] all [pas] uncleanness [akatharsia] with [en] greediness. [pleonexia] KJV-Interlinear
19 and
they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the
practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. NASB
Past feeling, ‘apalgeo,’ means
to be sealed off, to have become apathetic, to have completed their grieving,
to be beyond feeling, to be finished.
And so when truth is
excluded from the life for a long enough period, then you eventually become spiritually
callous, spiritually hardened, spiritually emotionless. This does not mean that your emotions stop
functioning, but what it does mean is that your spiritual functions have
ceased.
A halted spiritual life
means that contact with reality, with truth, with reason, have been separated
away from your thoughts.
You cannot think truth
because you have no truth. You cannot
think rationally because you have lost the ingredients of being rational. You are not be oriented to life, because you
have lost sight of reality from the spiritual perspective, which is the true
perspective of life.
Pharaoh is the perfect
example of this type of hardening of heart. Through six of the plagues, Pharaoh
hardened his own heart. He refused to
recognize the Hebrew God. He refused to
obey the Hebrew God. His soul was
calloused over and death should have been the next event in his life. However, God kept him alive for four more
plagues, to demonstrate that once hardened, there is no return. Not for Pharaoh and not for anyone.
That became the end of
the vast Egyptian Empire and after they lost their great army, then the history
of Egypt came to a virtual halt as far as its greatness was concerned.
When the soul becomes
calloused over, it is calloused because of the lack of doctrinal circulation
through the soul. Bible doctrine is the
nourishment of the soul and without it, the soul dries up and hardens
over. When the soul becomes completely
closed over, then all light is extinguished and death is the only way out of
this life.
Being past feeling, means
having closed off of all human interaction with God and truth.
And how does this
occur? By means of the rejection of
doctrine, which means the active subscribing of ones life to sin. This is the active rejection of truth.
You do not accept spiritual
responsibility in life. You reject spiritual
obligations. You pursue those things
that you have made important to yourself.
You claim, ‘Mine, mine,’ regarding the many and various details of life,
elevating them to higher levels of importance than the role that God has
assigned you for life.
And therefore, all things
untruthful, become your selected pattern and guide for life.
It is this repeated and
daily decision process that leads you to the covering over, the callousness of
your soul, that eventually seals off all light from your life, and eventually ends
in your miserable destruction.
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