2 Peter 2: 14-22
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood! They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness. But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey--an animal without speech--who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for "people are slaves to whatever has mastered them." If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud."
The eyes are enough for you to commit adultery, in God's eyes. If the eyes are dark, then everything becomes darkness in you. At one point of time or another, we all would have had our eyes dark. We walked in total darkness. When does the light really come into us? When we start obeying everything Christ had commanded. Until then, we will remain in the dark. The day we start obeying Him, our eyes are opened. Until then, it remains closed. Because, when we obey Christ and whatever He had commanded, His divine nature gets formed in us. This is where the light gets formed in us. Until then, we still live in darkness. When we are still in darkness, we will never stop sinning. We will keep obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in us. We will be seductive and we will seduce others to obey the sinful nature of the Devil in them too. Who are the unstable? Those who are double minded. They who do not know which to obey, the sinful nature of the Devil in them or all that Christ had commanded. These who speak confidently, even though they live according the sinful nature of the Devil in them, will be the ones who are the experts in greed. They will speak like an expert all the time. They will attempt to teach you all the art of living.
They will attempt to teach you, the art of living when their life is all a sham in itself. The art of making money when the world will be a better place without them. The art of doing all things when all that they are doing proceeds from the urges of the sinful nature of the Devil in them. For intsance, they will teach about the art of having peace when they themselves go to war displaying violence. How ironical? They will teach about the art of finding the truth, when all the time they speak lies in God's name. They will teach you how to overcome sin by obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in them and not obey everything Christ had commanded. They will atempt to teach you how to be successful in this world by being greedy and covetous. They will teach everything which deliberately opposes what Christ had commanded.
For example, throughout from the books of Genesis to Revelation, it has been clearly stated that all forms of idolatry is sin, including the worship of Money but yet they go on teaching you the art of filling your mind with the thoughts about Money, twenty-fours in a day, even when you are asleep. They have learnt the secrets of Balaam, the false prophet. At the start, he wasn't a false prophet but he bacame one because of the urges of the sinful nature of the Devil in him. That urge overtook him. He was overcome by the sinful nature of the Devil in him completely. It's a kind of madness. The madness for Money like Balaam's. God's way of dealing with such madness was using the donkey in his midst to talk sense into him. The greed for Money has already mastered him, so how does God set free this kind of slave. He is a slave and he doesn't admit it. He is a slave to what had mastered him. In this case, it's greed for Money which becomes the worship of Money for that slave. His thoughts are always filled with this and nothing else. Even when he thinks of God, he links it to Money too. So, Money becomes his God. In whatever he does, he associates himself with his master, and that is, Money.
James 4: 13-17
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. So then, if you know the good you ought to do and don't do it, you sin.
