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The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored

Learn about apostasy from 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Acts, Jeremiah, and more. Discover why it's crucial not to ignore these warnings about falling away from the true religion. Explore Paul's teachings and the importance of sound doctrine.

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The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored

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  1. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • What is apostasy? (2 Thess 2:3) – “falling away”

  2. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (NKJV) - Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

  3. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • avpostasia – a falling away, defection, apostasy; in the Bible namely, from the true religion: Acts 21:21; 2 Thess. 2:3; (Josh. 22:22; 2 Chr. 29:19; 33:19); Jer. 2:19 - Thayer’s Lexicon

  4. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • avpostasia - as a condition resulting from changing loyalties revolt, desertion; as a religious technical term; (1) apostasy, rebellion (2TH 2.3); (2) defection, abandonment (AC 21.21) - Freiberg Lexicon

  5. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • A “Changing of loyalties” is a good description of the term. (Jer 2:19)

  6. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • Jeremiah 2:19 (NKJV) - Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the Lord your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord GOD of hosts.

  7. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • Did the apostle Paul ever teach on this subject? (Acts 20:26-32)

  8. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • Acts 20:26-32 (NKJV) - Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.27For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. 28Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

  9. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • 29For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. 31Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

  10. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • 32“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

  11. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • “For three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.”

  12. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • “For three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.” • When was the last time you hear a single sermon on this subject?

  13. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • Apostasy is defined by a people who demand the kind of teaching they want rather than demanding God’s will alone without compromise be taught. (2 Tim 4:1-4)

  14. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • 2 Timothy 4:1-4 (NKJV) - I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

  15. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

  16. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • Is this an optional subject? Ask Paul! “I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom.”

  17. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored • People can ask for Bible teaching and be running away from God. Look back at where you attend and see not only what has been taught, but what has not been taught.

  18. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • If one concedes that the Bible is from God then several things must also be true about the Bible. (2 Tim 3:16-17)

  19. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NKJV) - All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  20. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • “..that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

  21. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • “..that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” • Anything that God provides man is sufficient for the task it is intended! Creation – (Gen 1:31); Jesus as our Savior – (Heb 7:25)

  22. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Genesis 1:31 (NKJV) - Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  23. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Hebrews 7:25 (NKJV) - Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

  24. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • One’s attitude towards the Bible will in fact show one’s attitude towards God. (Jn 12:48)

  25. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • John 12:48 (NKJV) - He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

  26. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • If we love God, then we must be seeking truth! Men quickly reveal their hearts when a Bible is opened and light is shown on their deeds. (Jn 3:19-21)

  27. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • John 3:19-21 (NKJV) - And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

  28. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Two attitudes – two destinies – Where are you? (1 Jn 4:1, 6)

  29. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • 1 John 4:1 (NKJV) - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

  30. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • 1 John 4:6 (NKJV) - We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

  31. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • What do people mean when they call others “legalist,” “traditionalist,” and “Pharisees?” Ask them if they can find and stand in “the truth?”

  32. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • What do people mean when they call others “legalist,” “traditionalist,” and “Pharisees?” Ask them if they can find and stand in “the truth?” • It is not “legalism” or “traditionalism” to pursue a principled life based upon definitive answers found in the word of God.

  33. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • New Testament Christians would have been startled that anyone would ever question the need to seek the truth about all things God revealed.

  34. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Consider how the Apostle John described Christians in 2 John.

  35. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Consider how the Apostle John described Christians in 2 John. • “all those who have known the truth” (1:1)

  36. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Consider how the Apostle John described Christians in 2 John. • “all those who have known the truth” (1:1) • “the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever” (1:2)

  37. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Consider how the Apostle John described Christians in 2 John. • “all those who have known the truth” (1:1) • “the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever” (1:2) • “I rejoiced greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father” (1:4)

  38. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • Later John plainly wrote that we need to know if “we are of the truth.” (1 Jn 3:19)

  39. The Bible is a perfect revelation from a perfect God • 1 John 3:19 (NKJV) - And by this we knowthat we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

  40. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • Must we have authority from God for everything we do we have the right to act when God is silent? Look at the repeated, emphatic response of Jesus!

  41. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • Must we have authority from God for everything we do we have the right to act when God is silent? Look at the repeated, emphatic response of Jesus! • Jesus whole life was focused on “doing the will of the Father who sent Me.” (Jn 5:19-21, 30)

  42. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • John 5:19-21 (NKJV) - Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

  43. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • 21For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

  44. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • John 5:30 (NKJV) - I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

  45. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • There was not a single thing Jesus did without the fellowship and authority of the Father. (Jn 8:28-29)

  46. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • John 8:28-29 (NKJV) - Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and thatI do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”

  47. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • If someone really wishes to please God then they will walk in these same footsteps.

  48. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • If someone really wishes to please God then they will walk in these same footsteps. • What does perfect mean? What does “every good work” mean? If the silence of the Bible means that we can do what we think, then I do not know of a single doctrine of the Bible that is not compromised and made meaningless.

  49. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • God showed in the Old Testament that the silence of the scriptures is restrictive! (Lev 10:1-3)

  50. Jesus showed us by example how to respect the revealed will of God • Leviticus 10:1-3 (NKJV) - Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. 2So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

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