Quite often we are approached for advise when people find themselves in a moral quandary. After we have exhausted all the reasons we know why a decision must be taken based on moral, scriptural and spiritual truths, we find that we have just wasted our time. These persons almost always know what is the right, moral and noble thing to do, but they were hoping to hear us encouraging them to do what they secretly desire to do and they will almost always do what they had made up their mind to do all along.
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Mark 4:11-12
11And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside, everything comes in parables; 12in order that ‘they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’”
Isaiah 6:9-10
9And he said, “Go and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand.’ 10Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and comprehend with their minds, and turn and be healed.”
It is an exaggerated way of saying, “They will not listen.” There are some people who are just not interested in what Jesus has to say.
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