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about backsliding. We're not talking about
stumbling and falling or making a mistake.
We're talking about someone who once
professed to believe the truth and turns his
back upon that truth. In 2 Peter, chapter 3,
Peter begins in verse 1 by saying this: “This
second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you;
in both which I stir up your pure minds by way
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of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of
the words which were spoken before by the
holy prophets, and of the commandment of us
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the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: Knowing
this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts.” Now, I
only read that because of the phrase "last
days," and he mentions scoffers, those who
mock at the Word of God. Notice in 1 John,
chapter 2, verses 18 and 19. This passage,
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