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How To Backslide from Paul
This I say therefore, and
testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth walk not
as other Gentiles walk...
Ephesians 4:17
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Paul's difficult times and daily battles just carry the gospel even further, not backwards. We ought to GROW when things get tough, not faint! Romans 8:28 According to Philippians 1:6, the brethren are to wax confident; they are to become even more bold, not to faint or lose confidence!
Faithful is he that calleth
you, who also will do it.
I Thessalonians 5:24,25
That is because Jesus Christ will do it, not us!
Thus we have the
right confidence - in Him, not in us!
Being confident of this very
thing,
that he which hath begun
a good work in you
will perform it until the
day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 1:6
And he gave some, apostles;
and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and
some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the
saints,
for the work of the ministry,
for the edifying of the body
of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity
of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the
Son of God,
unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature
of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more
children, tossed to and fro,
and carried about with every
wind of doctrine,
by the sleight of men, and
cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Ephesians 4:11-14
We should grow together as brethren, too!
The four letter word these days for our rightly dividing
doctrinally trained Christian is...
WALK!
A Backslidden Christian...
Having the understanding
darkened,
being alienated from the
life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness
of their heart:
Who being past feeling have
given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
Ephesians 4:18,19
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But ye have not so learned
Christ;
If so be that ye have heard
him,
and have been taught by him,
as the truth is in Jesus:
Ephesians 4:20,21
Or go back to the old life!