How were they defiled? Complacency, love of ease, unwillingness to stand behind the church’s testimony to the lost. There are those whose lives are very complicated, and who would love to do these things and cannot. They are prevented by insurmountable circumstances. That happens quite a lot these days, and the Lord knows what our individual situations. But for those who can serve, to prefer ease and to be complacent is something we have to repent of; it is a sin. We may be defiled by affluence, spending too much on ourselves, ever wanting to be richer and to have more. We may be defiled by a lack of sympathy for the lost. ‘I am saved’, we think. ‘I am going to heaven’, and we do not think about others who need to hear the gospel. Or defiled by self-consideration, preoccupation with me and my problems and my needs, or by compromise with the world. ‘I do not want people to think ill of me. I am going to quieten down and keep my opinions and my spiritual views to myself.’