A Way Of Correction
Proverbs 15:10-12 (KJV)
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
A person who has forsaken the way of the Lord:
Is grieved by
Hates
Avoids
correction.
When one is away from God the reproofs of life are so contrary to their course that they cannot help but be hurt by those reproofs.
It occurred to me that there is another consideration in the text. When one is grieved by correction then that one has forsaken the way.
God’s way is a way of correction. His purpose is to mold us, to reshape is unto the image of Jesus Christ. If ever the child of God chooses to no longer submit to that molding process he has, at that moment, forsaken the way God planned for him to travel.
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Proverbs 15:10-12 (KJV) A Way Of Correction
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Psalm 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."
If we walk contrary to His word and if we don't follow His word we could easily fall off of His path.
If we stray to far......
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
I would suggest that the passage to which you refer is speaking of the Tribulation. Those who have rejected the gospel will, during the Tribulation, not be given opportunity to be saved. Those who have already received the Gospel will have been rescued from this Tribulation by rapture previously.