Don't know they can be! (only 'from' but not 'to')
    1) Pastors don't tell them
    2) parents don't teach them to their kids
    3) few folks show them by example
    4) folks don't really listen to the sermon of a pastor who does tell them
    5) SS & other children's materials don't tell them!

Don't know how!
    1) bondage is miserable, but they try, anyway
    2) law - no liberty or joy of victory or future through it
    3) nobody willing or able to show them
    4) pride - they don't really want to know
            They think they are doing ok (God isn't spanking them, etc.)
            They like the fleshly feeling, even if only temporary and occasional
            They compare themselves to others...  II Corinthians 10:12  For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Ignorant of the reality of the times!
Ignore the reality of the times!
    They live a pretend life of what they think it should be - or have been taught it to be...
    They prepare for a life that THEY want to live... and ignore the reality of the times!

Blame God for their miserable life and situation!

Desire to be Holy no matter what
    Well, only that which they can, they justify that which they can not - and ruin a truthful testimony to others!

Another Spirit, Another Christ!

• II Corinthians 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
• Galatians 1:6-8  I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

• II Timothy 2:15,16 - leads to an increase unto more ungodliness!

• I Timothy 6:10 - causes folks to err from the faith, and pierce themselves through with many sorrows!

• II Timothy 4:3,4- causes them to turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables!

• Galatians 2:20,21 - we just frustrate the grace of God by not following Christ's way (through Paul, remember)!
• I Thessalonians 2:13 - trying to do it without the Book - the word of God to work in them!  Ya gotta be in that Book in it day & night, through hard and easy times.  You can't be too busy!

• Ephesians 2:8,9  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.
• Romans 11:25  For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

•     The importance of the brethren... II Corinthians 1:4,5
• However, that is no excuse... there is the Book and Paul, etc.  There are plenty of examples of your situation in the Bible!

• Ecclesaistes 12:1 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
• I Timothy 4:12  Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. But don't let it be an excuse, either!
• they think they have plenty of time... even time to waste...  Proverbs 27:1  Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
• they are in a hurry to get what they want, where they want and how they want!  II Thessalonians 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.  Psalms 130:5: I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
• not willing to live a Smyrna 'early marriage' or young years of beginning... they want it now!  Revelation 2:9  I know thy poverty, (but thou art rich)...
• they have not seen death be a 'real thing' yet - not someone they really cared about and spent years together.  Life AFTER death must become real!

• Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
• Psalm 71:18  Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
• can't let go of the past
• it's too late to change no
• this is the way things are, so what can we do about it now
• Ecclesiastes 4:13  Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

• II Timothy 3:4 - hard to give up that personal 'enjoyment' - that is more important that loving God HIS way...

• Jeremiah 6:16,17,19

• Envy - Mark 15:10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. Acts 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts 17:5  But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.  I Timothy 6:4  He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Nehemiah 2-6  They will:  1) mock you; 2) try to conspire to stop you; 3) try to sneak in amongst the rubbish;  4) fuss over finances; 5) try to make you compromise; 6) threaten you with slander; 7) try to cause you to sin!

• Don't like fiery trials...
• II Timothy 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:3  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
• Ephesians 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

I Peter 4:12,13  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

• Galatians 4:16 - Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
• II Corinthians 12:15 - And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

• Mark 7:37-39  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

I John 4:19  We love him, because he first loved us.

• Jeremiah 23:22 -  But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.   they should be showing you the book so you can see the understanding yourself!
• Jeremiah 7:4,8Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.   Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

• I Corinthians 16:15  I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)

• Romans 6:18  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.  We are MADE to be that... but...
• Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
• Romans 6:19,20  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

• II Timothy 3:12 - Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
• I Timothy 4:10 - For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

• Luke 8:14 - Choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life (brings no fruit to perfection!)
• I Timothy 4:13 Lousy attendance - Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
• Mark 7:13 - word of God has no effect! Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
• Isaiah 55:8,9 You don't think enough like him yet!  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.   For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. But you could... I Corinthians 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. if you were close to Him!

• Proverbs 19:26  He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
• Jeremiah 8:12  Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
• II Thessalonians 3:14  And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
• There should be at first!Ezra 9:6: And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
• But not anymore... II Timothy 1:8  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
• Don't mind being a dog again - or a sow?II Peter 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

• Replace the book with good music?  Feed the flesh?  Let music be your spiritual guide or road?  II Timothy 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

• II Corinthians 2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
• II Corinthians 11:3,4  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

• I Timothy 4:1 - depart from the faith - conscience gets seared!  church/denominational/bookstore teachings produce fear, guilt, bondage, confusion, etc.

• I Timothy 4:1 - depart from the faith - conscience gets seared!  Music, religion, etc.

• Romans 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Romans 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Galatians 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Galatians 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

• Proverbs 12:27  The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
• Proverbs 18:9  He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
• Proverbs 22:13  The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
• Proverbs 26:15  The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

• turn away - II Timothy 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
• hideth himself - Proverbs 27:12 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself;...
• withdraw thyself - I Timothy 6:5  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• note someone specifically and have no company with him -  II Thessalonians 3:14,15And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.  Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
• have grace - Romans 14:13  Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
• Restore a brother/sister - Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
• refrain judgment of a brother - Romans 14:10  But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
• exort a brother/sister - Hebrews 3:13 (rightly divided, of course)But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
• give heed - Hebrews 2:1 (rightly divided, of course)Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• take heed - Hebrews 3:12 (rightly divided, of course)Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
• beware:  Colossians 2:8; II Peter 3:17; Matthew 7:15; Matthew 16:6 & Luke 12:1; Mark 12:38 & Luke 20:46; Luke 12:15

• ...instead of delivered FROM...  II Thessalonians 3:2  And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
• II Peter 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

• vain words, good word, fair speeches slieght of men, cunning craftiness, great swelling words of vanity, enticing words of man's wisdom, having men's' persons in admiration because of advantage,  WOE! ... etc.  they deceive the hearts of the simple, they deceive you, they get advantage of you, they treat you like a barbarian, they entice you, makes the preaching of the cross of none effect, etc.

• I Corinthians 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
• I Corinthians 16:13  Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

• I Corinthians 9:27  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
• Matthew 7:28,29  And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:  For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
• Luke 4:32  And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

• II Timothy 3:16,17; Psalm 12:6,7; I Corinthians 13:8-10

• Caught up in the foundation I Corinthians 3:10,11
• Caught up in the Pillar -I Timothy 3:15
• Gotta keep building - and according to Paul! John 14:2; I Corinthians 3:10-15
• Caught up in gain - I Timothy 6:5,6  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

• Acts:12:7  And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
• II Timothy 2:24-26  And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,  In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;  And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

• II Peter 2:18-21 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• Romans 7:15-20  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

• Luke 8:13 - They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

Striving with folks can run them off!

• Romans 15:20  Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
• Romans 15:30  Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
• II Timothy 2:14  Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
• II Timothy 2:24  And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

• Jeremiah 23:30 - Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

• I Thessalonians 5:19  Quench not the Spirit.
• Ephesians 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
• subliminal stuff, obvious stuff that we are seared to, etc. music - tv - videos - anything that goes against the scriptures and warnings, etc. - you may not even know it - but He does!

• devils devices   II Corinthians 2:11
• God's ways and words in the Book
• God's preachings
• Brethren's willingness to help
• final results of lifestyle on their children
• Paul's things to know...