James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
This is what he failed to do, which then ultimately resulted in him spilling the beans in public, and thus making his profession of being Christian a mockery. If he had accepted the evaluation given by Jesus, he would have been saved from that earth shattering experience, which almost did him in.
Therefore, as we seek thorough conversion where warranted, we must return to the story of migrating to the United States when we surrendered all of our former currency to the bank in question. We did not do the converting, it was the bank that did it, for all we did was to surrender the old for the new.
Similarly, true conversion is not something that the human agent is capable of accomplishing. It must be done for us and in us, and it’s the work of God alone upon the human heart, without any human input or suggestions and additions.
Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!