Why Apostasy? Series

Our Bible is our compass today, how are you using it?

2 Tim 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth

Spurgeon quote

‘…if ……we have been warned, if our ministers have been faithful, if they have aroused our conscience, and have constantly and earnestly called our attention to the fact of the wrath to come, if we have not attended to their message, if we have despised the voice of God, if we have turned a deaf ear to their earnest exhortation, if we perish, we shall die warned—die under the sound of the Gospel, and our damnation must be an unpitied one, for our blood must fall upon out own heads.’

We wander why the Church now accepts doctrines that once were not open for debate; things like homosexuality, religious tolerance and fornication etc

Many of the Churches today do not make a stand for truth, but compromise with the world so as to either:

· Be excepted

· Not to offend

· To be politically correct

Right now the Roman Catholic Church is working on a universal church cacatism to connect all churches and faiths (unknown source)

They want spiritual and political unity and have already prepared a replacement pope from Paris called Jeanmari Lusthinger (or similar surname) of Jewish background who will bring all faiths including Islam under one universal order when this pope finishes

There is a global conditioning taking place, and the church sleeps while the Devil works

This is not a James Bond film or some futuristic fantasy, but we need to wake up and see what’s happening!

During the Reformation, men and women laid their lives on the line, some perishing for the sake of the truth

They realized that a man or women may be religious, yet may not be godly

The known established churches have suffered splits over the centuries, and many have left to form the Christian establishments we have today:

· Methodist

· Evangelical

· Pentecostal

· Baptist

· United Reformed etc

But even now, the truth our forefathers fought for is being swallowed up in doctrines of demons

(PowerPoint on false teachers today)

You may believe or have believed some of these people, maybe given towards their ministry

Illustration: I myself was taken in by the ‘Jesus went to hell’ doctrine, until I studied theology for myself on the doctrine of Christology

I learned how to do an exegesis, which developed and sharpened my spiritual man

I want us all to become people who know how to handle the word of God skillfully

The apostle Paul himself was skilled in OT scripture even though it wasn’t with the Holy Spirit

Phil 3:5-6 tells us how Paul defended his doctrine even killing those who opposed it

Imagine how he felt, condemning the Church, to find out he was totally wrong and those he opposed were of the truth

Jesus is the truth, if we have him, not just know about him, then He the Spirit will guide us into all truth John 16:30

So how can we recognise these people? What clues do we have?

Read Jude

Those who fall away Jude describes like this: