Four Steps to Apostasy

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Four Steps to Apostasy
2 Timothy 41-4
Wrong Attitude
False Teachers
Turn From The Truth
Turn To Fables
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Apostasy
A falling away A defectionAn abandoning of
what one has believed in, as a faith, cause, or
principles.(Websters New World College
Dictionary)Used to describe a falling away from
the faithand a secession from the church, a
disowningof the name of Christ!
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• Become Gods children through faith
• Romans 1017 117
• Must walk by faith
• Hebrews 116

Position Must Be Reached Before A Fall
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Four Steps to Apostasy
Wrong Attitude

• A compromising attitude toward preaching of the
  gospel will lead to unfaithfulness
• 2 Thessalonians 210
• Bible preaching convicts men of sin
• Proverbs 2323
• Many want only positive preaching
• Acts 2027 Matthew 56

Compromise is simply changing the question to
fit the answer
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Four Steps to Apostasy
False Teachers

• Men who tickle ears
• Isaiah 3010
• False teachers have always been in demand
• Jeremiah 531
• Congregations are led into apostasy because
  preachers try to please the people instead of
  SAVE the people
• Titus 110-11 Matthew 715

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Four Steps to Apostasy
Turn From The Truth

• When the understanding and the heart have no
  desire for truth, they will NOT listen to it
• John 832 1 Peter 122
• When this happens the weak, indifferent
  Christian will try to cast the blame for their
  falling away on the preacher or other faithful
  member

People who are out to find fault seldom find
anything else
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Wayne Dyer
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much
fault you find with another, and regardless of
how much you blame him, it will not change you.
The only thing blame does is to keep the focus
off you when you are looking for external reasons
to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You
may succeed in making another feel guilty of
something by blaming him, but you wont succeed
in changing whatever it is about you that is
making you unhappy.

• We are responsible for our own actions
• Hebrews 1026

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Four Steps to Apostasy
Turn To Fables

• The acceptance of false doctrine wanting to
  believe what they want to believe
• Men do not find the TRUTH agreeable to them and
  readily accept false doctrine
• 2 Thessalonians 211-12
• Fables in exchange for the soul-saving truth
• John 1248

My greatest thought is my accountability to God
(D. Webster)
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Four Steps to Apostasy
2 Timothy 41-4
Wrong Attitude
False Teachers
Turn From The Truth
Turn To Fables
End Result -- Complete Apostasy!
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Four Steps to Apostasy
CONCLUSION
End Result Complete Apostasy!

• Bible warns of the difficulty of restoring those
  who fall away
• 2 Peter 317
• Let us welcome and remain faithful to God and His
  blessed Word!

For this reason we also thank God without
ceasing, because when you received the word of
God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not
as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
word of God, which also effectively works in you
who believe.(1 Thessalonians 213)