"See that no one takes you captive..."

So... "see that no one takes you captive".... A person grows in the LORD, they get some knowledge, and then they come to understand that things must align with the Word. So now we shut the gate and declare that nothing is coming into our yard, our mind, unless it gets examined. One problem...... everything that is already in the yard, gets a free pass.

IE. Those presuppositions that control key ways in which our thought processes function have never been examined in the light of God's Word. We think they are neutral. If we think of them at all. So when they get jostled, our foundational way of looking at life, the normal response is that the problem must be with the new information. After all, "I'm saved and a child of the King" so it's "more power to the shields, Scotty!" Meanwhile, Jesus is trying to "take the ax to the root" and were yelling "get thee behind me, Satan".

When we are resting in God's truth. We will have his peace in our hearts. When anything we have accepted as truth, our convictions, are threatened, we will get wiggy. That's normal,it's ok. But Jesus wants us to be free of incorrect truth, pretending to be his truth. We serve a jealous God and "the Kingdom of heaven suffers viloence and the violent take it by force".

Proclaiming the whole gospel,
David

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