Chart #26
The Case of Simon - A Case of Apostasy
In Acts 8 we have a clear-cur example of a child of God sinning.
Verse 13 tells us that he believed and was baptized.
Jesus said, "he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved," Mark
16:16, therefore, Simon was a saved man -- yet he committed sin so that he was
"in the gall of bitterness, and the bond of iniquity." Acts 8:23
As a child of God he was commanded to repent and pray that he might be forgiven,
Acts 8:20-24.
Chart #27
Children of Israel, an Example to Us - 1 Corinthians 10:1-12
"Would Not That You Should Be Ignorant."
| 1. Believed - baptized - saved: Exodus
14:30-31; Jude 5. |
1. Faith - Baptism - Saved: Galatians
3:26-27; Mark 16:15-16. |
| 2. Were God's children - Deuteronomy 7:6;
14:1. |
2. Are God's children - Galatians 3:26-27. |
| 3. All ate spiritual food - verse 3. |
3. All eat spiritual food. |
| 4. All drank spiritual drink - verse 4 |
4. All drink spiritual drink. |
| 5. Rock was Christ - verse 4 |
5. Rock is Christ. |
| 6. Fell by transgression. verse 5-10.
Some lusted after evil things; committed idolatry, fornication, tempted
God, murmured against God. Displeased God - Overthrown -
Jude 5. |
May fall - verse 12. "Now these
things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil
things as they also lusted. Verses 6, 11. |
| 7. Could not enter God's rest - Hebrews 3:11,
18-19. |
May not enter God's rest - Hebrews 4:11. |
They were overthrown; not allowed to enter God's rest. These things
happened to them typically and written for our admonition
These types and warnings are wasted on Calvinists. The falling of these children
of God is a type which does not typify in Calvinist doctrine.
"Wherefore Let Him That Thinketh He Standeth Take Heed Lest He
Fall" verse 12.
Chart #28
2 Peter 2
1. Peter gives a vivid description of the many causes of apostasy and of its
terrible consequences.
2. NOTE: first the causes of falling away: verses 1-3
a. False teachers bringing in damnable heresies.
b. Many would follow their pernicious ways.
c. With feigned words these false teachers would make
merchandise of those who were the elect (1 Peter 1:2)
3. NOTE: second the warnings against apostasy: verses 4-19
a. God spared not the angels that sinned.
b. God spared not the old world but brought the flood.
c. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
d. These same conditions are repeated in those who "have
forsaken the right way" and have "gone astray" and have become
"cursed children with "eyes full of adultery" who
"cannot cease from sin."
4. In verses 20-22 their final apostasy resulting as follows:
a. They had escaped pollution through the knowledge of
Christ.
b. They had become again entangled in sin and overcome.
c. Their last state was worse than the first.
d. It had been better for them not to have known the
way of righteousness, than having known it to turn from it.
e. Their apostasy was compared to the proverb of a dog
returning to his own vomit and the sow that washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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