Page 11 - Apostasy

have professed faith in Jesus Christ, taken a

stand, a public stand for the Lord and His Word

and then totally and completely turned their

back on Jesus Christ and His Word. So that's the

idea that we see when we come to this subject.

It is not spiritual error. It is not heresy. It's not

even being an atheist necessarily, but it's

someone who has supposedly come into the

faith and then taken a total about-face and

denies the principles and truths of the Lord

Jesus Christ.

Now, let's talk about the context here just

for a moment; and, of course, there was

apostasy in the first century. I'm going to talk

about the development of apostasy in just a

moment, but first of all, the definition. And,

again, he says here in verses 1 and 2, “Now we

beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our

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