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The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored.

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

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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. • apostasy – 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

  3. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored. • apostasy – 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

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

  5. 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.

  6. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored. • This is a falling away from God and a rejection of His character. (Jer 2:11-13)

  7. The Bible’s warnings of apostasy are widely ignored. • Jeremiah 2:11-13 (NKJV) - Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit. 12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the Lord. 13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.

  8. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • From the very beginning of the nation Moses spoke plainly (Deut 28)

  9. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • From the very beginning of the nation Moses spoke plainly (Deut 28) • Moses repeatedly and with great detail spoke of the consequences of disobedience. (Deut 28:15-24)

  10. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • Deuteronomy 28:15-24 (NKJV) - “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: 16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

  11. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

  12. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 20 “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.

  13. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 22 The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.

  14. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

  15. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • Even before they had a king Moses spoke of a future captivity of God’s people and their king. (Deut 28:36-37)

  16. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • Deuteronomy 28:36-37 (NKJV) - “The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.

  17. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • God wanted the nations to know and for us in the New Testament era to know. (Deut 29:20-28; 1 Cor 10:11)

  18. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • Deuteronomy 29:20-28 (NKJV) - “The Lord would not spare him; for then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord would blot out his name from under heaven.

  19. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 21 And the Lord would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law, 22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:

  20. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 24 All nations would say, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’

  21. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them.

  22. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

  23. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 1 Corinthians 10:11 (NKJV) - Now £all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

  24. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • God warned Israel through Solomon when the temple was built. (2 Chron 6:36-40)

  25. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 2 Chronicles 6:36-40 (NKJV) - “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to a land far or near; 37yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have committed wickedness’;

  26. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 38 and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and toward the temple which I have built for Your name:

  27. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • 39 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You. 40 Now, my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer made in this place.

  28. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • Note the simplicity of how to avoid apostasy. Be humble, repent and pray and listen!

  29. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • God wanted all their heart and soul if they wanted to be His people.

  30. God’s Prophets gave great emphasis to warn of apostasy • God wanted all their heart and soul if they wanted to be His people. • This involved a relationship with God where people knew His nature and sought His fellowship. Pray was a good barometer of where their hearts were at.

  31. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Social pressure may be Satan’s most effective tool. (Lk 9:26)

  32. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Luke 9:26 (NKJV) - For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

  33. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • By serving God they were very different than the nations around them.

  34. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • God gave Israel what they needed and not what they wanted.

  35. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • God gave Israel what they needed and not what they wanted. • Because of this Israel often was overtaken militarily by a better organized and better equipped foe from a worldly stand point.

  36. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • God gave Israel what they needed and not what they wanted. • Because of this Israel often was overtaken militarily by a better organized and better equipped foe from a worldly stand point. • These times of suffering were actually for their good so that they might have the one thing that the other nations did not have - a relationship with God!

  37. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • During the time of the Judges we see that very thing happening. (Judges 2:7-23)

  38. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Judges 2:7-23 (NKJV) - So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He had done for Israel. 8Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died when he was one hundred and ten years old.

  39. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 9 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash. 10 When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

  40. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 11 Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; 12 and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

  41. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 13 They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the £Ashtoreths. 14 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

  42. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for calamity, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed. 16 Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

  43. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so.

  44. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.

  45. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

  46. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 20 Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice, 21 I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

  47. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • 22 so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.” 23 Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

  48. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Even when they were faithful they did not establish a genuine faith in their children.(Judges 2:10)

  49. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Judges 2:10 (NKJV) - When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

  50. Israel was influenced by the nations around them • Historians have commented on the 3rd generation effect upon the church.

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