So the people who are teaching these false doctrines
are possessed by seducing spirits
that are teaching doctrines of devils.
Because look what it says in verse number two.
Speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their conscience seared with a hot iron.
This is referring to someone who's been given up,
who's been given over to a reprobate mind.
Because their conscience is seared.
Now what does it mean to have a seared conscience?
Well your conscience is that aspect of your being
that allows you to distinguish and differentiate
between good and evil.
You understand that murder is wrong.
You understand that adultery is wrong,
that lying is wrong, that it's sinful.
But someone who is a reprobate
no longer has had that moral compass removed from them.
That's why the Bible tells us in Romans chapter one
that these people who are reprobates
are filled with all unrighteousness.
They have no governor on their conscience
to tell them this is wicked and this is wrong.
So another way to put that is someone
who has a seared conscience.
What does that mean?
Well to sear something means to burn it.
Okay when you sear something,
and when you sear something it basically removes,
like for example if you were to sear your arm, right?
You know it would be very painful
but after the years pass by
that portion of your body would be completely numb.
You wouldn't be able to feel that is what I'm saying.
So someone who has a seared conscience
is someone who no longer feels,
they're what the Bible would refer to
in Ephesians chapter four as being past feeling.
Okay, in other words they can't differentiate
between good and evil.
These are wicked people.