What is Backsliding?

1. It is waywardness

Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their backsliding,
 I will love them freely,
 For My anger has turned away from him.

2. It is forsaking God

Jeremiah 2:13

“For My people have committed two evils:
 They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
 And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

3. It is love becoming cold

Matthew 24:12

And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

4. It is to be lukewarm

Revelation 2:4

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

5. It is unbelief

Hebrews 3:12

Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Quotes 

. Down through the centuries in times of trouble and trial God has brought courage to the hearts of those who love Him.  The Bible is filled with assurances of God’s help and comfort in every kind of trouble which might cause fears to arise in the human heart.  You can look ahead with promise, hope, and joy. - Billy Graham

. When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light.  So take your Bibles to Christ. - Robert Murray M’Cheyne

. Love is not one of the attributes of God, but the sum of them all. - J. M. Gibbon

. Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken. - Abraham Heschel

[Message No: 5914]