The Soil of Apostasy

Now what is apostasy?

Apostasy means an abandonment of ones faith. Literally it means to fall away. Now it can reference what I term the macro-apostasy of 1 John 2.

1 John 2:19, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”

This form of apostasy occurs among people who at one time professed faith in Christ, and yet were never saved. It is the apostasy predicted of the last day.

And yet there is another kind. And that is the apostasy that we might call the micro-apostasy. Each of us is guilty of this micro-apostasy. It is the micro-falling away that we experience every time we sin.

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