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SOME BAD THINGS THAT STILL EXIST 1. Because of lack of Bible study, they misunderstand God's will. Worship, divination, jewelry, nutrition, laws, ghosts, etc. II Peter 3:16. 16 As he wrote in all his letters, ... in which there are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. John 17:17. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 2. Because they do not accept to obey what God teaches through the Bible, they continue to do as they please. Drinking, gambling, eating, mistreatment, stubbornness, etc. Jeremiah 11:8. 8 But they did not obey, nor pay attention, but followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. Matthew 6:10. 10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven! 3. Because there are still passions that cannot prevail. Entertainment, pleasure, self-indulgence, laziness, love of money, lust for fame, lust for beauty. Romans 6:12. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Ephesians 2:3. 3 Among them we all formerly lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. Ephesians 4:22. 22 that, concerning your former conduct, you put off the old self, which is corrupted by its deceitful lusts. 4. Because of your immature spiritual state, you still live according to your ego. Greed, envy, jealousy, bitterness, hatred, pride! Hebrews 5:12, 13. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness; for he is an infant. 5. Because he has not yet cast his burden upon the Lord. Burden, worry, grief, insecurity… Mark 4:40. 40 Then he said to them, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” Romans 1:17. … The righteous shall live by faith. 2 Corinthians 5:7. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 6. Because they do not make the hope of the Lord’s return the driving force for their present lives. 1 Corinthians 9:26. 24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And every man who competes exercises self-control in all things; and they do it to receive a perishable crown; but we an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run, as not without aim; I box, as not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. 2 Peter 3:11 11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved. 1 John 3:2, 3. … We know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.