What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better [machinery], not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use, men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.
E.M. Bounds

BACKSLIDING

BACKSLIDING

BACKSLIDING

  1. Is turning from God # 1Ki 11:9
  2. Is leaving the first love # Re 2:4
  3. Is departing form the simplicity of the gospel # 2Co 11:3 Ga 3:1-3 5:4,7
  4. God is displeased at # Ps 78:57,59
  5. Warnings against # Ps 85:8 1Co 10:12
  6. Guilt and consequences of # Nu 14:43 Ps 125:5 Isa 59:2,9-11 Jer 5:6 8:5,13 15:6 Lu 9:62
  7. Brings its own punishment # Pr 14:14 Jer 2:19
  8. A haughty spirit leads to # Pr 16:18
  9. Proneness to # Pr 24:16 Ho 11:7
  10. Liable to continue and increase # Jer 8:5 14:7
  11. Exhortations to return from # 2Ch 30:6 Isa 31:6 Jer 3:12,14,22 Ho 6:1
  12. Pray to be restored from # Ps 80:3 85:4 La 5:21
  13. Punishment of tempting others to the sin of # Pr 28:10 Mt 18:6
  14. Not hopeless # Ps 37:24 Pr 24:16
  15. Endeavour to bring back those guilty of # Ga 6:1 Jas 5:19,20
  16. Sin of, to be confessed # Isa 59:12-14 Jer 3:13,14 14:7-9
  17. Pardon of, promised # 2Ch 7:14 Jer 3:12 31:20 36:3
  18. Healing of, promised # Jer 3:22 Ho 14:4
  19. Afflictions sent to heal # Ho 5:15
  20. Blessedness of those who keep from # Pr 28:14 Isa 26:3,4 Col 1:21-23
  21. Hateful to saints # Ps 101:3
  22. Exemplified 22a) Israel

    # Ex 32:8 Ne 9:26 Jer 3:11 Ho 4:16

22b) Saul # 1Sa 15:11 22c) Solomon # 1Ki 11:3,4 22d) Peter # Mt 26:70-74