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BACKSLIDDEN CHRISTIAN

In the book of Proverbs 14:14, the Word of God declares: "The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, but a good man will be satisfied from without."  In Isaiah 53:6, the Word declares: "All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way...." 

In the spiritual realm we are either progressing forward or falling backward. That is, either filled up in our heart with our own selfish ways or filled up with the concerns  of people and the concerns of God. When we become a backslider in heart we will be disconnected from God.

The old Adamic nature of man is tainted by sin and our DNA is influence by Satan. We reflected his image of being self-will, selfish, self-centered and rebellious to all authority especially the authority of God.  (See Isaiah 14:12-17).

A person who is born again begins to reflect the image of God. Therefore, we will become unselfish and will love others unconditional and unselfish. We become submissive to God's authority and we respect all authority.

God's Word becomes alive and real in our life.  Jesus said in John 6:63: "....the words that I speak unto you are spirit and they are life."  A living Word from a living God. God's Word also will expose and disclose to you your inner motives
and true nature. The Word of God makes you become honest with yourselve.
In Hebrews 4:12 he Word of God declares: "The Word of God is living....and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

When a person is incarcerate they can study and meditate on the Word of God 4-6 hours a day. Therefore, the Word of God becomes precious and powerful. It even becomes soul food: "Thy words were found and I did eat them and they became the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of host." (Jeremiah 15:16).

Th end result is that anyone who stays connected to the Word of God will be very connected to God. God will become near and dear to that person.
Satan stragedy is to disconnect us from God. Therefore, the first thing that happens to a person who is release from prison is they will be surround and controlled by so many distractions that they will quit reading the Word
of God and become disconnected from God.

Ex-offenders are very narcisstic individual, who thrive on the trinity of I, Me, and Myself. They cannot afford to backside and become alienated from others as that will lead them back to becoming addicted to drugs.

Some church members can backslide and maintain some level of respectability.
But an ex-offender, who is a drug addict cannot maintain any level of respectability. Their sins will be quickly exposed and their life will spiral out of control!

Development of Sanctication-First Step

Questions with Answers found in this section of Scripture: 

      1.  What is the most important quality that we need to add FIRST to our faith?


      2.   What is the will of God according to this section of Scripture

      3.    What is virtue?

      3.    What is the gravest sin in the Church

      4.     What two qualities will sexual immorality destroy inside of us?

       5.     What relationships will sexual immorality destroy?

2 Peter 1: 5 “…giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue-which is moral excellence (2 Peter 1:5a).  It doesn’t say, add, church involvement, or soul winning, or separation. To our precious faith add moral excellence. Does that sound a little odd?  In I Thessalians 4: 3-the Word of God says; “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles, who don’t know God…For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 

Therefore, he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. (I Thessalonians 4:3-5, 7-8). In I Corinthians 6:18-20 the Word of God declares:  Flee sexual immorality, as every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immortality sins against his own body.  Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.


Sex is sacred and marriage is a picture of the intimacy, oneness, and purity that the Lord wants in His relationship with a believer. “For this reason a man shall leave his    father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.  This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
  1. Sexual immorality is one of the gravest sin in the church.  It destroys relationships and families. Satan has used sexual immortality to destroy the ministry of pastors, who gnvolved in an illicit relationship.
  2. Many men in the church have an insatiable appetite for pornography that destroys their relationship with both their wife and the Lord.
  3. Too many women in the church love their soap operas and they often have romance thoughts about being involved in an affair.
  4. Adding moral excellence to our precious faith will create much stability and strength in our character in addition to gaining God’s favor and many blessings from the Lord.
  5. Sexual immorality is one of Satan’s favorite tool for enslaving those who are involved in it.Sexual immorality will destroy a person’s character and conscience.  Therefore, ADDmoral excellence to your precious faith
  6. To illustrate character I would use cement that is wet and mix with gravel, when it is first laid down on the ground.  When it is settle it will become hard and sturdy.  Moral excellence is the beginning of a foundation that will soon become hard and sturdy.

(Abstain from sexual immortality)


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