Date: Pastor Daniel D. Schreck Theme: Backsliding Title: Seven Warning Signs Of Backsliding Text: Various Intro: Hebrews 2:1 –neglect, careless or apathy is fatal. A believer who because of negligence… allows the truth and teachings of the Gospel to slip is in danger of being swept downstream. Every…

2 Timothy 1:15-The Apostasy of Phygelus and Hermogenes

complacency, falling away

The very last thing we read in Matthew’s gospel are these familiar words from Jesus: Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,…

NEO ChurchParkside Julyne 285, 2009 2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? Paul’s Reason for Writing Why is Paul writing this second letter to the Corinthians Paul could see…

With confidence in Christ’s work and with comfort and courage in the Father’s love and plan, we can straighten our posture and right our paths to help one another run faith’s race well. To do that, we need to work peaceably with each other and prioritize holiness.

There is nothing wrong with looking into the past to remember what God has brought you from and how He has provided for you. However, We should never look back on our wickedness with longing to return to it.

2 Timothy 2:16-18-The Apostasy of Hymenaeus

Slide: “The Power of Persuasion” (Show during the announcements and intro;) Intro; Two teams/Two sides Each team had a goal. Achieve that goal. Quarterback / convince his players That if they would listen to him / he could lead them to their goal. The quarterback had to persuade his players. If they…

Even subtle compromise betrays the goodness of God and endangers our legacy

Forgetting God For a christian is sounds ridiculous. How can a christian forget about God Is it even possible to forget about God? Forgetting about God would be like forgetting your wife or husband, it would like forgetting your children. Could you ever wake up and see a child in your house and then…

Introduction: Soon after becoming a Christian, a person discovers that living the Christian life is not a bed of roses. Actually it is quite a battle, with a real struggle against three foes: 1. An external enemy: the world 2. An internal enemy: the flesh 3. An infernal (hellish) enemy: the Devil John…

God's people may pray for deliverance and even admit their backslidding ways, but many times that confession is superficial in light of their own spiritual drought. God sees through our superficialness and only accepts true confession

LOSING JESUS Text: Luke 2:41-52 I. JOSEPH AND MARY HAD CHRIST WITH THEM We may have Him, too, in every circumstance of life. A. We may have Him in salvation. There is no reason for any man to be lost. “God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” B. We may have…

God's mercy and love are the gift of him. We must not neglect his gift for it is not only to preserve us, but is also to bring us Joy, Strength and Peace.

Let us Leave the Caves of pasivity and get back to work for the Lord with a Passion.

All the neighborhood stood still and quiet, my wife froze where she was at, I stood looking at my son… my heart beating powerfully in my chest with some of the deepest fear mixed with concern and panic that it had ever felt. Just seconds before… I watched as my young son rode his bike between our cars…

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this…

What Jesus Means To Me! "What Jesus Means to Me" To me the only important thing about living is Christ, and dying would be profit for me. Confession of Faith I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe the WORD of God! The victory is mine! I have it now! I…

Don’t be shaken or disturbed Have you ever been confused by something that you heard? Have you wondered, what does that mean, what does it mean to me? Paul continues his address of the them of 1&2 Thessalonians, the return of Christ. There was a misconception about the return of the Lord. Had He come…

Introduction 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. The Proclamation 9 So then, there…

The Lighthouse of Jesus, the pure oil Olive, is our Salvation.

2 Timothy 3:1-9-Paul Predicts There Will be Apostasy in the Last Days

The Symptoms of Backsliding

The Apostasy of Alexander and Hymenaeus in 1 Timothy 1:18-20