Better Never Born"---Gospel Minutes
Excerpt: "The Apostate - Who Renounces the Lord
Apostasy is defined as: "A renunciation of
faith, defection, turning away from." When one
deliberately turns his back on the Lord, deserts
the principles the Lord gives him to guide his
life, that person is apostate. Not every sinner
falls into this category. We may fall without
falling away (Jer. 3:13; Hos. 14:4; Gal. 6:1). We
are told, "If we say we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us" (l John
1:8). Yet verse 7 declares, "If we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus his
Son cleanseth us from all sin." Through either
fear or weakness, because of the "pleasures of
sin" (Heb. 11:25), or yet for other reasons, we
may sin. But that is not apostasy.
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