"This episode mostly focuses on the destructive effects of ""the fruit of lies"" which is the product of ""plowing wickedness"" and ""reaping injustice."" (Hosea 10:13) Spiritual growth is challenging because uprooting the fruit of lies (repeated sinful behavior and thinking) requires addressing both the original lie and the self-reinforcing baggage of the lusts of deceit. This baggage corresponds with the fruit of lies. Once we persistently act on lies, going outside of the will of God, we regularly eat of the apparent benefits, the veritable fruit of lies. Lusts of deceit naturally magnify benefits and minimize negative consequences, and the natural cycle of sewing and reaping means that the harvest of corruption is not immediately realized. Because of the self-reinforcing dynamic undergirding the fruit of lies, magnifying benefits and minimizing costs, sin is not easily abandoned. In the case of full-blown strongholds (2 Cor. 10:5), ""thoughts"" have matured into ""imaginations,"" and finally ""strongholds."" Tunnel-vision has set in, and satisfaction of a lust of deceit consumes the thought-life. The episode concludes with the way of deliverance: patient sewing of new seeds of righteousness which eventually yield the ""peaceful fruit of righteousness"" characterized by ""the fruit of the Spirit."" Christian sanctification therefore requires persistent uprooting of the fruit of lies till genuine godly fruit manifests through patient ""sewing with a view to righteousness.""