SERMONS ON BACKSLIDING
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The Biography of a Backslider
by James Merritt
Biblical scholars tell us that these words were written from the Mamertine prison in Rome. You can still see it today. It is a sunken dungeon oozing with slime, dark, cold and damp. Paul is writing by the fading light of a setting sun wistfully looking out his cell toward the Mediterranean Sea. And in his mind he remembers a man named Demas. He had never had a more promising associate. He was young, aggressive, and enthusiastic. He was on fire for God, burning with a radiant love for Jesus, perhaps in Paul's mind he was being groomed to take over the apostle Paul evangelistic association after Jesus called him home...
Demas - The Story of a Backslider (3 of 18)
by Ken Trivette
I have been preaching for over thirty-six years and I have seen many come and go. I can think of many who were at one time so excited about serving God. They never missed a service. You could count on them being in Church Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night and any other time there were services. They were some of the best workers in the Church. But today they are nowhere to be found. They are out of Church and away from the Lord. J.C. Ryle said: ''It is a miserable thing to be a backslider. Of all unhappy things that can befall a man, I suppose 'backsliding' is the worst. A stranded ship, a broken...
The Bible on Backsliding (10 of 10)
by Jeff Ginn
This weekend a group of our men went to the MLC in Rockville, VA for a national mission project. We were assigned to reroof one of the large buildings there. The roof looked good. In fact, one of our group said, ''Why, we could get five more years of use from that roof.'' It looked strong. But looks can be deceiving. Before long three of our men had fallen through the roof. It was rotten underneath the shingles. What a risk it posed! Our Christianity can be like that. We can look good from a distance. The outside, visible part might appear to be sound. But underneath there is rottenness. And someone is...
Restoring the Backslider (3 of 9)
by Stan Coffey
We've Been talking about the subject of restoration. I believe God is in the restoration business. God wants to restore marriages. God wants to restore His people. God wants to restore joy and power and peace. God is a restoring kind of God. No matter where you are spiritually, no matter how far you may be away from where you think you should be, the Lord is in the restoration business. Last Sunday I said that the word "restore" means to mend, as to mend a broken bone -- put that bone back into place and allow that bone to mend. Jesus is in the business of mending broken lives. The Bible teaches us that the only time...
Alka-Seltzar Christians
by Rex Yancey
J.C. Ryle said ''It is a miserable thing to be a backslider. Of all unhappy things that befall a man, I suppose backsliding is the worst. A stranded ship, a broken-winged eagle, a garden overrun by weeds, a harp without strings, and a church in ruins-all of these are sad sights, but a backslider is sadder still.'' Demas was a backslider. He is mentioned 3 times in the New Testament: Colossians 4:14, Philemon 1:24, and in our text. His name means ''Popular.'' Perhaps he was a people person and made friends easily. I am sure people enjoyed being around him. He was probably well-known and well respected by those...
The Backslidden Church (7 of 41)
by Jerry Watts
Today we begin 'Part 2' of the Revelation. Chapter 1 constitutes Part 1 of this book because it highlights the things which ''have been.'' Chapter 2 begins with the things which are. While we ''THINK'' it will be a good thing to get to the present-day things, caution might be the word to hold up. As we take a look at chapters 2 and 3, focusing on the churches mentioned, we may discover that looking in God's mirror is not what we think it is. Every morning I get up and look in a mirror only to discover one more sign of my flaws. The mirror gives me the picture of myself which other see. The mirror which we will hover in front of (in chapters...
The Difference between Apostasy and Backsliding
by Jesse Hendley
My text today is John 6:67, in which the Lord said unto the twelve disciples, ''Will ye also go away?'' A group of disciples at this particular point in Jesus' life, who had been walking with Him, said to Him, ''We want to go with You, Jesus. We want to be saved and live with You here on earth and in heaven hereafter.'' These disciples suddenly turned around and left Jesus. They went away and broke His heart. They didn't want Him. They wanted religion. They had that. They had the Law. They believed in the Temple worship. They went through all the rituals, but they rejected Jesus Christ, the Son of God. They made...
Returning for Revival (7 of 7)
by David Davis
This passage speaks of the backslider. What is a backslider? It is a child of God who has gotten out of fellowship with God. A backslider isn't a lost person - but a saved person. You have to go somewhere in order to slide back. It is a person who needs to return. Someone once asked - ''Do Baptists believe in backsliding?'' The reply? ''We not only believe in backsliding - we practice it!'' So often we call an evangelistic crusade a revival meeting. An evangelistic crusade and a revival meeting are two different things. You can't revive a dead man. Evangelism is turning dead men to life. What we need in our churches today is...
Will You Leave Me Too?
by M. Jolaine Szymkowiak
We see in this section of scripture the ideal expounded by Jesus is being taken literally by the people to whom he is speaking. The Jewish people are accustomed to their Jewish leaders speaking in this way, however, this time they misunderstand. ''Manna'' has been used as a symbol of ''spiritual food'' many times meaning God's Law, or Word. Even though Jesus continues to speak of it all meaning to eternal life, it is not being understood. Because of this misunderstanding, especially about ''eating my flesh and drinking my blood,'' many of his disciples were leaving him. It was too confusing to them. Yes, they ate the flesh...
The Backslider
by Adrian Rogers
I want you to take your bibles now and turn to the book of Proverbs chapter fourteen and verse fourteen. Proverbs fourteen, verse four ten. I love to hear the pages turn, that's like music also. Here's a remarkable Proverb, short, concise, bur power packed. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways and a good man shall be satisfied from himself I want to speak to you today on THE BACKSLIDER, THE BACKSLIDER and I pray God that the message today will speak to your heart to warn you, to make you wise and many to restore. Now, what is a backslider anyway? What is a backslider? A backslider is not...
The Backslider and the Most Important Question Ever
by Donald Cantrell
It is a miserable thing to be a backslider. Of all unhappy things that can befall a man, I suppose ''backsliding'' is the worst. A stranded ship, a broken-winged eagle, a garden overrun with weeds, a harp without strings, a church in ruins--all these are sad sights. But a backslider is a sadder sight still. That true grace shall never be extinguished, and true union with Christ never be broken off, I feel no doubt. But I do believe that a man may fall away so far that he shall lose sight of his own grace, and despair of his own salvation. And if this is not hell, it is certainly the next thing to it! A wounded conscience, a mind sick of...
The Backslider (11 of 32)
by Zach Terry
I love reading signs. Like the one welcoming you to Kettle Falls, Washington, the home of ''1255 friendly people and one grouch.'' Along Oregon's winding coast, another warns: ''Emergency stopping only. Whale watching is not an emergency. Keep driving.'' One I saw at a BP gas station saying, ''You are responsible for spilt oil''. I pulled into a service station once. A bold sign proclaimed, ''We have Mexican food. We have gas.'' But my favorite of them all is posted on an Alaska highway: ''Choose your rut carefully. You'll be in it for the next two hundred miles.'' Today we are going to study a man who got into a rut that he...
The Path of the Backslider (26 of 28)
by Chuck McAlister
A book titled "The Criminal Personality" written by Stanton Samenow and Samuel Yochelson, describes a careful study of 250 habitual criminals. When they began, Samenow and Yochelson held the conventional view that criminals are victims of abuse and deprivation.They were looking for the social, psychological, or economic factors that could be said to "cause" crime. -- To their surprise, they couldn't find any. They did find one thing that habitual lawbreakers had in common though. Given a choice, they chose to break the law. (A) We all make choices .... we come to crossroads in our lives that demand life-changing...
The Backslider in Heart
by Jesse Hendley
If you have your Bibles, friends, turn with me to the Book of First Samuel, chapter 4. Verses 15 to 22 have some tremendous statements relative to our subject.The armies of Israel were in conflict with the armies of the Philistines. The were locked in battle, and Eli, the high priest, was awaiting word from the army as to how the battle went. His sons, Hophni and Phineas, were in the battle. Verse 15. "Now Eli was ninety eight years old, and his eyes were dim that he could not see. And the man said unto him, I am he who came out of the army." Here was the man who came to Eli to bring news of how the battle went. And the man...
