What Is Apostasy?

Title: what is apostasy?

“Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,”

??2 Thessalonians? ?2?:?1?-?3? ?NASB1995??

1. Paul tells us there must be a time of apostasy!! You can’t stop prophecy so the sad truth is this time will come the sadder truth though is that I believe that we are living in that time right now but not because of homosexuality transgender abortion that the result of living in a sin filled world the reason I believe… is because the church is not standing against it

2. What apostasy is not:!! it’s not refusing to follow Jesus God wants everyone saved but not everyone will be some mock him laugh scoff deny and refuse to get saved and that breaks God’s heart but that’s not apostasy

3. So what is apostasy? It is when those that were once saved fall away from their salvation or from following Jesus!! Someone is coming to all of our minds!!

1. Can a person that was once saved lose their salvation?

2. Turn to 2 Timothy? ?4?:?10? “for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.” ?NASB1995??

3. Who is Demas? Look at two other verses!!!

1. We must keep going!! For a number of reasons

2. turn to Luke 14:25-33 “Now large crowds were going along with Him; and He turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.”

3. consider what our falling away not only does to ourselves but also to those around us Dad would tell me you are going to let a lot of people down!! It gives others a reason to doubt that it’s real!!

1. We must keep going farther!!

2. Turn to Hebrews? ?6?:?1?-?3? ?NASB1995?? “Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permits.”

3. We have to move forward!! I heard a preacher the other day say if after years of following Jesus all you can sing is oh happy day… then I feel sorry for you!!!

1. We must keep going in the right direction

2. Turn to Hebrew 2:1-4 “For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.”

3. how do we fall away I believe it’s by slowly drifting away!! A service here and there less praying less reading!! Frog in a pan of hot water he will jump out but if you heat it slowly he will burn alive.

1. We must count the cost and leave this world behind!!

2. Turn back to 2 Timothy? ?4?:?10? ??? “for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.”