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Compare Luke 11:24-26
One of the things that this passage says to me, sadly, is that the condition of someone who’s once been converted but then abandons his or her covenants and relapses into “worldly” ways is very likely to be worse than it was before that first conversion.
I regret to say that I’ve seen precisely such a phenomenon in more than a few cases.
It’s very depressing, but it no longer surprises me.