Bethel Family Church
THE CAUSE AND CURE OF BACKSLIDING (3)
FREEDOM SERIES - We are still looking at what causes believers to fall away, and live mediocre lives for Christ. Where we once walked so close, now we are walking because we have to.
Locations & Times
Bethel Home Church
3387 Aristoteles St, Ennerdale, 1830, South Africa
Sunday 9:00 AM
WHO IS A BACKSLIDER?
A backslider is one who has known the real thing. He or she has been born again, and have walked in the Spirit, until the flesh started taking over. Backsliders are people who have received Christ as Saviour and Lord, but loses their fellowship with God, but not their salvation. Many people think of backsliders as people who commit murder, adultery, fornication, blasphemy, or some gross sin, but these sins are the result or evidence of a backslidden condition.
A backslider is one who has known the real thing. He or she has been born again, and have walked in the Spirit, until the flesh started taking over. Backsliders are people who have received Christ as Saviour and Lord, but loses their fellowship with God, but not their salvation. Many people think of backsliders as people who commit murder, adultery, fornication, blasphemy, or some gross sin, but these sins are the result or evidence of a backslidden condition.
WHAT IS BACKSLIDING?
The word backslide, in a Christian context, implies any movement away from Christ rather than toward Him. A backslider is someone who is going the wrong way, spiritually. He or she is regressing rather than progressing. The Old Testament uses the term “backsliding” to speak of those who have been near to God but have allowed sin to take them away from Him.
The word backslide, in a Christian context, implies any movement away from Christ rather than toward Him. A backslider is someone who is going the wrong way, spiritually. He or she is regressing rather than progressing. The Old Testament uses the term “backsliding” to speak of those who have been near to God but have allowed sin to take them away from Him.
WHERE DOES BACKSLIDING BEGIN?
Backsliding, begins in the heart, when we give into self-interest, old habits, old excuses. although if it’s not confessed and forsaken, it will be noticeable in our lives in a very short time. We once lived our lives in and around the church, but now it is easy to find something that is more ‘important’ than fellowship with other who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and His church. We once read the Bible personally, and even with our families, but we no longer make this a priority. We are no longer sensitive to the little sins over which God once broke our hearts. Our burden for people who are lost is gone, or, if we are interested in others, we no longer have compassion that once marked our lives and our ministry.
Backsliding, begins in the heart, when we give into self-interest, old habits, old excuses. although if it’s not confessed and forsaken, it will be noticeable in our lives in a very short time. We once lived our lives in and around the church, but now it is easy to find something that is more ‘important’ than fellowship with other who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and His church. We once read the Bible personally, and even with our families, but we no longer make this a priority. We are no longer sensitive to the little sins over which God once broke our hearts. Our burden for people who are lost is gone, or, if we are interested in others, we no longer have compassion that once marked our lives and our ministry.
3. THE THIRD WAY -
BIG IDEA - Prayer is the only avenue we have to communicate with God.
BIG IDEA - He desires for us to pray because in doing so we keep ourselves open to His voice and the leading of His Spirit.
BIG IDEA - A person with a healthy prayer life cannot stay backslidden very long.
What place did prayer occupy in the life of Jesus?
What pace did prayer occupy in the early church?
What place does prayer occupy in your life?
What pace did prayer occupy in the early church?
What place does prayer occupy in your life?
BIG IDEA - The right of access to God in prayer is priceless.
4. THE FOURTH WAY -
BIG IDEA – Jesus didn’t need Peter’s help; it was Peter that needed the help of Jesus.
BIG IDEA – What a liberating truth it is that it’s not what I do that pleases God; it’s what I allow Him to do through me that really counts.
BIG IDEA - For us to live the quality of life that God has in mind, we must be totally available to all that Christ is in our daily lives.
BIG IDEA - When God fills you, there is no room for the ways of the flesh.