Job 24:13

"They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof."

The wicked are known by their actions, words and deeds. God knows their heart, so that even if they are hypocrites to the sight of man, God still knows them. Oh, the wickedness of man and his ways before a holy, all-seeing God. They are of those that rebel against the light - there is One Light and that Light is Jesus Christ and men reject Him; 'Multitudes, multitudes in the valley fo decision'; 'but there is the broad and wide path that leadeth to destruction and many there be that go in thereat.' Here we see that the 'they' are many in the numerical population of this earth. It is not a few that will not be saved, it is a great hosts of them that will be damned. Why do we not understand this? Why does it not alarm the church? Why are we not moved to do something about it? Masses amount of people are of those that rebel and refuse the Gospel. And only the power of His light is able to save them. 'For the Light has come into this world, and men loved darkness rather than light'. they flee from the church, from the Word, from a Christian, for fear that they will be convicted and be saved. They want the darkness because they have become used to it, and they reject the light. they know not the ways thereof - word study, to know; word study, way; This is not just ignorance, they have made a choice not to learn His ways. When you consider what men know today, what they put their time into, they have increased with knowledged. But the ways of eternity and salvation, they reject. Even those in the church are in shame at this. Ask them what it means to be saved and they will answer something a someone said or a sentence out of a tract. But answer from the heart they cannot do it. What does salvation mean to you? What does Christ mean to you? The one who cannot answer this is the one who does not know His ways. There is a multitude of reasons why men do not know the ways thereof. Preachers and teachers are not teaching it rightly; they avoid the times and places of study to hear and grow; and they take no personal desire to read and know on their own time. A church should offer multitude of times and settings to hear the Word to know His ways. Churches today are canceling services and limited their members from hearing and knowing the ways. Men and women do not take any vested interest to read the Bible, pray or be still before the Lord and go on as if the Lord will simply pout it out of the sky on them. You must incline your heart to follow after Him. so it may be that you are able to cast blame upon your preacher and teachers and the church, but how much time and discipline have you invested in knowing His ways? Take the mote out of your own eye before you try to take it out of someone else's. Nor abide in the paths thereof - becuase they do not know His ways they cannot abide in His paths; Which path? the straight and narrow path; the path of righteousness, faithfulness and steafastness. Men cannot stay on this course for they are to easily led astray in their own lusts, pride and imagainations of this world. 'If you abide in Me, I will abide in you'. And this is where we must begin. To abide in Him, He will keep us in the paths that are right. cease to abide in Him and you quickly are off the path. No one said anything about it being easy, or smooth. Those things matter not, it is about obedience. The one that cannot abide in the path on a continual basis must truly go back and see if they wer truly born again. We have too many souls in this day and age that jump on and jump off the path. There is too many inconsisenticies of their walk, faith and devotion to Him. I am one that truly understands men sin, but when it becomes a continual perpetual state of sin, something is wrong.