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Thus apostasy runs in the ranks of people, prophets and princes, being found in professions, pulpits and palaces. THE TEXT also reveals a development in the sin of apostasy. Apostates first depart and defect to a wrong way (in hatred and murder); then they devote themselves with a vengeance to that
Apostate human nature is so fallen as to be as bad as it can get, so that the apostate church goes for anything and everything bad. Whatever is the worst, most detestable evil beyond all others, apostates in the church will go for it and plunge into it. They depart from their plighted vows, divorce,
Apostates also reject the teaching of a personal God, a personal devil, a six-day creation-week, a literal and natural Adam, serpent, garden and flood. Also included among these glories of God’s truth is the glory of Scripture itself in the doctrine of verbal and plenary inspiration and its final, i
Then “some shall depart.” Paul warns Timothy of some who will depart (apostatize) a little later, which came about in the later days of the oldest apostle John (I John 2:18). There are always some like this. Those some” are always showing up in the church; so the church must be ready for them. They
This means that a Muslim, who does not know what Christianity is, is not an apostate. He is an unbeliever, but he is not an apostate. An atheist who rejects Christianity, but who has not heard the true gospel, is not an apostate. He is an unbeliever, but he is not an apostate. An apostate is always
Image: Judas Iscariot Turning Away from the Last Supper, stained glass relief from the Moulins Cathedral in France (c. end of the 15th century) The following is Part Two in the Apostasy series. Read the last section, Part One, here. “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge
The horror of the apostate’s sin is seen in his attitude and behavior toward Christ. There are ex-Christians who have left the church who claim still to admire Christ. You cannot leave the true church where Christ is preached; where Christ is tasted and known; where Christ rules through the officebe
The following is the final part, Part Six, in the Apostasy series. Start from the beginning with Part One here. “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the p
One field receives the rain, produces briars and thorns. The other field drinketh in the rain and produces herbs for the farmer who has cultivated the field. One field is blessed. The other field is rejected, nigh unto cursing, and is to be burned. So never, beloved, does the true saint become
And after it creeps in and it's not eradicated, it doesn't take very long for it to be embraced and for the church to apostatize. I marvel. I marvel How quickly the churches of the Reformation in the Netherlands were infected after the Reformation with Arminianism. How quickly and how quickly ma