When A Believer Backslides

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you aware of GOD's kindness and goodness to you?

Yes. Acts 14:17

Acts 14:17 (Amplified Bible)

Yet He did not neglect to leave some witness of Himself, for He did you good and [showed you] kindness and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with nourishment and happiness.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD shows His wrath on people who turned their backs on Him.

IV. TEXT:

Deuteronomy 29:20 (Amplified Bible)

The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for the secret things belongs to You but You revealed all Your WORDS for me so that I can do all of them.

Deuteronomy 29:29 (Amplified Bible)

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law.

VI. TITLE:

When a believer backslides

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Name derived from: 2 Greek words: "deuteros" meaning second and "nomos" meaning law.

B. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)

C. Date written: 1407 - 1406 B.C.

D. Purpose: The former generation of Israel had died in the wilderness; hence it was important that the law should be repeated and expounded to the new generation before they entered the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

E. To whom written: The children of Israel, the generation which would enter and conquer the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Main Theme: A rehearsal of the laws proclaimed at Sinai, with a call to obedience, interspersed with a review of the experiences of the old generation.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

G. Key word: Remember

H. Key verses:

Deuteronomy 6:1-4 (Amplified Bible)

6:1 NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,

6:2 That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Deuteronomy 29:20 (Amplified Bible)

The Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall settle on him; the Lord will blot out his very name from under the heavens.

Deuteronomy 29:20 (King James Version)

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

A. What happens to the believer who abandons the LORD, stops following and obeying the LORD JESUS CHRIST:

1. The LORD will not pardon him/her

2. The anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall smoke against them

3. All the curses that are written on this book shall like upon him

4. The LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Four things that will happen to the believer who abandons his faith and belief in the LORD, so beware, these are not threats but these are WORDS directly from the LORD. It will happen in order as He has said. Blessed be His Name! All are self-explanatory but we will explain each of them.

1. The LORD will not pardon him/her

The forgiveness of the LORD from all sins since birth until now for that believer will be removed.

Psalms 78:50 (Amplified Bible)

He leveled and made a straight path for His anger [to give it free course]; He did not spare [the Egyptian families] from death but gave their beasts over to the pestilence and the life [of their eldest] over to the plague.

Proverbs 6:34 (Amplified Bible)

For jealousy makes [the wronged] man furious; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance [upon the detected one].

If we turn our backs from the LORD, of course, the LORD will turn His back on us and GOD, the LORD JESUS is our Forgiver and Forgiveness so all forgiveness will be removed from us and we are treated like sinners who have never known the LORD.