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OUR GREATEST THREAT, DRIFTING

by Fred Lowery

Scripture: HEBREWS 2:1-4, HEBREWS 12:1-2, JEREMIAH 48:10, PHILIPPIANS 3:14


Our Greatest Threat, Drifting
Fred Lowery
Hebrew 2:1-4


ILLUS. Where one Christian is lost to the Christian life through some particular assault of evil, hundreds drift away from the life of worship and faith.

Questions: Are you as close to God right now as you would like to be? Was there ever a time in your life when you were closer to God than you are right now?

MORE DRIFT OUT THAN FALL OUT

When one awakens to the fact that he is drifting

That there is not the same moral resistance (entheos)

That there is not the same spiritual enthusiasm

That there is not the same eager purpose to know

The truth and to do it - then it is time to put the trumpet to the lips.

IF I WERE SATAN:

Seeking to destroy Individuals The Home The Church The Nation

I would do exactly as he is doing! To encourage everyone and everything to drift from those things which made them GREAT!

E.G.T.V.: Profanity Sex, Nudity Old Woman swallowed can of snuff.

Education - harvard, Princeton, Yale were begun as Bible Colleges with the only major in Bible.

NEWSWEEK:Drifted into inflation

CANNOT ACCEPT CHRIST AND LIVE ANYWAY YOU PLEASE......

God has revealed Himself in Jesus and has spoken through Him - therefore we must give heed to His commands.

Give earnest heed - lest we drift away and be dashed against the Rocks.

Drifting - Nautical term boat drifts away and into the Rocks - Ring slips off a finger

Describes neglect, carelessness 1st of 7 warnings against backsliding found in this book I.THE POSSIBLITY OF DRIFTING 1.It easily happens (Motor home on cruise)

2.It does happen

Without giving earnest heed - We will drift.

Without discipline - We will drift

The drift of a soul! All of us are capable of drifitng.

Lot SamsonKing David DemasWhen Kings went to Battle

''No man crashes without first drifitng'' Delightful Disillusioning Dangerous

II.THE PROCESS OF DRIFTING

1.CARELESSNESS

INATTENTION, UNCONCERN DISTRACTION, CASU ...

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