APOSTASY
Remember that if you are a
child of God, you will never be happy in sin.
You are spoiled for the world, the flesh, and the devil. When you were regenerated there was put into
you a vital principle, which can never be content to dwell in the dead
world. You will have to come back, if
indeed you belong to the family.
Apostasy isn’t an unintentional
departure or personal struggle with doubt.
It is deliberately abandoning the truth for erroneous teaching. “The faith” refers specifically to the body
of Christian doctrine, not the act of believing. Some will depart from “the faith which was once delivered unto
the saints” (Jude 3). People who
understand and outwardly affirm Christian doctrine but don’t have a heart for
God are prime candidates for being seduced by demons away from the faith.
The Master’s Plan for the Church, Moody, 1991, p. 140.
Apostasy is a perversion to
evil after a seeming conversion from it.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 20.
None sink so far into hell
as those that come nearest heaven, because they fall from the greatest height.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by
permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 20.
Religion which is begun in
hypocrisy will certainly end in apostasy.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by
permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 153.
Yes, apostasy happens. Sometimes the catalyst is flagrant sin. The pain of conviction and repentance is
refused, and the only alternative to it is wholesale rejection of Christ. But sometimes the catalyst is a thorn
growing quietly in the heart, an indifference to the way of the Cross, a
drifting that is not reversed by the knowledge of biblical warnings.
Apostasy and How it Happens, Tabletalk, April. 2004, p. 28,
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