Jesus did not want anyone to follow Him under false pretenses. Our choices must center in Christ. We begin here. The real problem is not lack of knowledge of the truth so much as the warping of our judgment. When a man has seared his conscience, it is no trick at all to rationalize or fool himself into choosing the wrong master.
Men pay a frightful price for their illusions as to what they accept as the way of truth.
Neither serving Christ nor serving the world and the devil is an accident. We will only sink deeper and deeper in the mire if we choose the wrong master. In 6,000 years we have fashioned more than twenty civilizations and destroyed every one of them. And now for this twentieth civilization we are nearer than man has ever been to total destruction. Stake everything on this.