Ways of Backsliders

Go back and walk no more with Christ

John 6:66-68

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Fail to take heed lest they fall

1 Corinthians 10:12-14 

12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 

13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

Sin against God

Exodus 32:32-33 

32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.

Cast off their faith

1 Timothy 5:12 

Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.

Defile the body

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 

16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?

17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

Draw back into perdition

Hebrews 10:39 

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.