No one likes to be confronted with the whole truth of God.
Everyone is quick to receive the truth that relieves, comforts and justifies them, but very few want and are willing to hear that part of God's truth that rebukes them, corrects them and calls them to repentance. This part of the truth hurts a person's pride because it shatters the illusion sinful pride had cast for them and others to believe in and gives them nothing to be proud of.
Such reactions to the whole truth would lead one to believe that there is something wrong with the truth. The only thing wrong with the truth, and thus the reason it is often halfed, shaded or denied, is that it will never always guarantee what we want.
The sad reality is that any person who is unwilling to receive this pain caused that part of God's truth called the Law, that same person will never be able to receive the pain relieving and the eternally comforting part of God's truth called the Gospel.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17 (ESV)
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