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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 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
The following is Part Five in the Apostasy series. Read the last section, Part Four, 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 powers of the world to
The following is Part Four in the Apostasy series. Read the last section, Part Three, 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 powers of the world t
Image: Turnaway Resisting Evangelist, Pilgrim's Progress illustration by Frederick Barnard (1892) “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which sh
The following is Part Three in the Apostasy series. Read the last section, Part Two, here. “For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall dev
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
Apostates are described as sons of Belial who depart from the professing church, drawing an aberrant following along with them into idolatry. Apostasy was such a detestable abomination to God in the Old Covenant church that He commanded that apostates be exterminated by capital punishment, and every
The apostasy shows itself in a certain corner of the land, now here, then there: but defection anywhere is a symptom of apostasy everywhere throughout the land. Discussion: 1. How must we account for the repeated appearance of an apostate generation? Solomon saith: “Train up a child in the way he sh
Apostacy begins with a generation that is indifferent to spiritual things, both in doctrine and in walk. They are permissive. They are willing to put up with a little heresy. After all, it is not worth splitting over. They just hope it goes away of itself. But it never does. A little leaven leavenet