The following were sermon notes from a message by Greg Nichols
How the apostate goes back
1] They draw off their thoughts, all that they may, from the remembrance of God, death, and the judgment to come.
2]Then they cast off by degrees private duties, as closet prayer, curbing their lusts, watching sorrow for sin and the like.
3]Then they shun the company of lively and warm Christians.
4]After that, they grow cold to public duty, as hearing and reading sermons and scripture, they forsake godly conversations.
5]They then begin to pick holes as we say, in the coats of some of the godly; and that devilishly that they might have a surprised reason to throw religion behind their backs.
6]Then they begin to adhere to, and associate themselves with carnal, loose, and wanton men.
7]Then they give way to carnal and wanton discourses in secret: and are glad if they can see other professed Christians engaging in compromising activities.
8]After this, they begin to play with little sins openly.
9]And then, being Hardened, they show themselves as they are. Thus being launched again into the gulf of misery unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceiving's[/b][/font][/font]
How the apostate goes back
1] They draw off their thoughts, all that they may, from the remembrance of God, death, and the judgment to come.
2]Then they cast off by degrees private duties, as closet prayer, curbing their lusts, watching sorrow for sin and the like.
3]Then they shun the company of lively and warm Christians.
4]After that, they grow cold to public duty, as hearing and reading sermons and scripture, they forsake godly conversations.
5]They then begin to pick holes as we say, in the coats of some of the godly; and that devilishly that they might have a surprised reason to throw religion behind their backs.
6]Then they begin to adhere to, and associate themselves with carnal, loose, and wanton men.
7]Then they give way to carnal and wanton discourses in secret: and are glad if they can see other professed Christians engaging in compromising activities.
8]After this, they begin to play with little sins openly.
9]And then, being Hardened, they show themselves as they are. Thus being launched again into the gulf of misery unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceiving's[/b][/font][/font]
