Romans 1:31
31 Without understanding [asunetos], covenantbreakers [asunthetos], without natural affection [astorgos], implacable [aspondos],
unmerciful [aneleemon]: KJV-Interlinear
31 foolish,
faithless, heartless, ruthless. ESV
Without understanding, ‘asunetos,’ means that a
person lacks insight, lacks perspective, lacks knowledge, and in other words
they lack the necessary information in order to know something, and in this
case, they do not know doctrine, do not know truth, and therefore are fools.
Covenantbreakers, ‘asunthetos,’ means they are
faithless, treacherous, breakers of agreements.
Without natural affection, ‘astorgos,’ means incapable
of the things that come or should come naturally, like affections, empathy,
sympathy, commitment.
Implacable, ‘aspondos,’ means the refusal to
listen, the refusal to hear the other side, unteachable, stubborn.
And unmerciful, ‘aneleemon,’ means without
compassion, unmerciful, merciless.
So, when the door of a negative attitude is thrown
wide open, then these things which we have studied, rush in, into the empty
vacuum of the mind.
The mind is a sponge that thirsts for information.
Your volition decides which information to allow in to the soul.
Bible doctrine fills up the soul with the right
stuff such that is does not thirst, does not hunger, becomes contented and
fulfilled.
Rejecting Bible doctrine opens up the soul to the
wrong stuff which does not fulfill, does not bring contentment, and leaves the
soul lacking all that is really needs.
The soul starves with perpetual hunger and thirst and eventually dies
from its own depravation.
While we have some semblance of restraint in this
world, then evil cannot have its way, totally.
But one day, God will remove all restraint, and
that will demonstrate the extremes in horror, that people are really capable
of. What the world and history has seen
thus far, is nowhere close to what the world will see in the Tribulation.
With all of the horrors and evils in this world
even now, the world population is still growing by leaps and bounds. But when the Tribulation begins, then in those
just seven very short years, the world population will be reduced to near extinction.
That is the real difference between what people do
now and what people are really capable of.
Every person who disregards Bible doctrine, is in
effect a co-conspirator and an aid to that which is coming.
Every person who pursues Bible doctrine now, cannot
stop the future, but can be separated out from the masses and be fulfilled and
completed in themselves for their better and phenomenal now and forever. And, may even become an example for others,
who too, just might advance in their spiritual lives.
Your spiritual life is centered on your spiritual
growth and your advancement in Christ, fulfilling your responsibilities and
obligations for life. You are not going
to make the world a better place, but you may just help others along in their
spiritual lives.
This is the devils world and making a better devils
world is a contradiction in terms, and an impossibility, for evil is in itself
self-destruction. And there is no such
thing as a better self-destruction. But then fools will argue that it is.
