Are you tired yet?

The Bible says that before we were born again we were slaves of the kingdom of darkness. True freedom is given to us by Jesus Christ. Yet, so often, the devil uses false teaching to take us back into enslavement. How? By false teachers who "speaking out empty words entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from those who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved." 2 Pet. 2:18,19. In other words, false teachers appeal to the flesh, our senses, our feelings, and our desires for things of this world to enslave us once again by getting us to focus on the desires of the flesh and the rat race of acquiring material things.
An even greater danger is indicated in the phrase "those who barely escape from those who live in error". This speaks of two types of people, those that blatantly reject God, like atheists, and those who may be convicted in their hearts about their life, but rather than accept full transformation by the Holy Spirit, have become merely morally reformed. They know about God and recognize that they need "religion" but in their turning to God are diverted by false teachers into a moral reformation rather than salvation. They become church members. They get baptized. They work in the Sunday School. They tithe regularly. And sadly, they are going to find themselves standing before God one day at the judgment and He will say, "Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you."
Are you finding yourself feeling like you are becoming enslaved again to the things of this world? Have you been enticed by your desires into things that promised you freedom, but haven't delivered? Satan attempts to burden us so heavily under the weight of this world's "goods" that we become no heavenly good. Jesus says in Matt. 11:28-30, "Come unto Me, all who are weary and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My load is light."