Brethren, Paul is not warning the world. He was warning the church, both the first century along with the congregations today. The sobering reality is when someone becomes deeply rooted in a system built on inherited perspectives, voices from outside that system rarely carry enough authority to wake them up. Only God's calling can wake them up. This mystery system is deceptive, tricky, so convincing that as Jesus warned, if possible, even the elect could be deceived.
