Ways of Backsliders

Fail God’s grace – Permit roots of bitterness to defile them

Hebrews 12:15  

See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

Become blind

2 Peter 1:9  

But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Become barren and unfruitful

2 Peter 1:8

For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Forget purging from sin

2 Peter 1:9  

But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Do not make their calling and election sure

2 Peter 1:10  

Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,

Turn away from the holy commandments

2 Peter 1:20  

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation.

Abide not in the doctrine of Christ and of God

2 John 1:9  

Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Abide not in Christ

John 15:18  

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

Leave first love

Revelation 2:4-5  

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.