2 Corinthians 11:1-4
New International Version (NIV)
11 I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! 2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. 3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
Paul is talking about being lead astray from the gospel and from Jesus Christ.
I am convicted at how quickly I can be lead away from what I know to be true and right. Only three days ago I'm in church singing "there is no one like our God. We will praise you..." and yet this morning I had to make a conscious choice to confess and come back to God as I'd fallen away so far and so quickly. I am convinced that this what Jesus meant in Luke 9:23 "Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me."
Today I chose Christ.
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