The Ways of Backsliders

  1. They will not listen to God (Leviticus 26:14).
  2. They will not obey commands (Leviticus 26:14).
  3. They despise God’s statutes (Leviticus 26:15).
  4. They abhor God’s judgments (Leviticus 26:15).
  5. They break God’s covenant (Leviticus 26:15).
  6. They forget God (Deut. 8:11).
  7. They forsake God (Deut. 32:15; 2 Chron. 15:2).
  8. They provoke God (Deut. 32:16).
  9. They turn again to folly (Psalm 85:8).
  10. They turn aside to sin (Psalm 125:5).
  11. They turn from righteousness (Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 18:16-24; Ezekiel 33:12-18).
  12. They cast God behind them (Ezekiel 23:35).
  13. They trust their own righteousness (Ezekiel 33:13).
  14. They are bent on backsliding (Hosea 11:7).
  15. They lose savor (Matthew 5:13).
  16. They grow cold in love (Matthew 24:12).
  17. They become offended (Mark 4:17).
  18. They fall away by temptation (Luke 8:13).
  19. They permit cares of world, deceitfulness of riches, and lusts of other things to choke the Word (Mark 4:18-19).
  20. They become ashamed of Christ (Mark 8:38).
  21. They look back to old life (Luke 9:62).
  22. They become defeated by Satan (Luke 11:21).
  23. They are overcome by sin (2 Peter 2:20).
  24. They lust after evil things (1 Cor. 10:6).
  25. They are idolatrous (1 Cor. 10:7).
  26. They commit fornication (1 Cor. 10:8).
  27. They tempt Christ (1 Cor. 10:9).
  28. They murmur (1 Cor. 10:10).
  29. They become filled with debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults (2 Cor. 12:20-21).
  30. They remove from Christ (Galatians 1:6-8).
  31. They disobey truth (Galatians 3:1).
  32. They fall from grace (Galatians 5:4).
  33. They turn again to the old bondage of sin (Galatians 4:9; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 6:1).
  34. They put away faith (1 Tim. 1:9).
  35. They turn aside after Satan (1 Tim. 5:15).
  36. They love money (1 Tim. 6:10-21).
  37. They err from the faith (1 Tim. 6:10-21).
  38. They depart from the faith (1 Tim. 4:1-8).
  39. They deny Christ (2 Tim. 2:12).
  40. They love the present world (2 Tim. 4:10).
  41. They depart from God (Hebrews 3:12).
  42. They harden hearts by sin (Hebrews 3:12-13).
  43. They fall in unbelief (Hebrews 4:11).
  44. They fall away (Hebrews 6:4-9; Hebrews 10:26-29).
  45. They fail God’s grace (Hebrews 12:15).
  46. They permit roots of bitterness to defile them (Hebrews 12:15).
  47. They become blind (2 Peter 1:9).
  48. They become barren and unfruitful (2 Peter 1:8).
  49. They forget purging from sin (2 Peter 1:9).
  50. They do not make their calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10).
  51. They turn away from the holy commandment (2 Peter 2:20).
  52. They abide not in the doctrine of Christ and of God (2 John 1:9).
  53. They abide not in Christ (John 15:1-8).
  54. They leave first love (Rev. 2:4-5).
  55. They permit heart to depart from God (Jeremiah 17:9; Hebrews 3:12).
  56. They give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons (1 Tim. 4:1-8).
  57. They turn away from truth (2 Tim. 4:1-4).
  58. They fall from their own steadfastness in Christ (2 Peter 3:17).
  59. They err from the truth (James 5:19-20).
  60. They become cut off (Romans 11:22).
  61. They become broken off (Romans 11:17-24).
  62. They shipwreck faith (1 Tim. 1:19).
  63. They neglect salvation (Hebrews 2:1-4).
  64. They become castaways (1 Cor. 9:27).
  65. They become corrupted from the simplicity in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).
  66. They Fail to continue in faith (Col. 1:23).
  67. They fail to continue seeking life and immorality (Romans 2:7-8).
  68. They go back and walk no more with Christ (John 6:66-68).
  69. They fail to take heed lest they fall (1 Cor. 10:12-14).
  70. They sin against God (Exodus 32:32-33).
  71. They cast off their first faith (1 Tim. 5:12).
  72. They defile the body (1 Cor. 3:16-17).
  73. They draw back into perdition (Hebrews 10:39).
  74. They do not endure (Matthew 10:22).
  75. They move away from the hope (Col. 1:23).
  76. They fail to walk in the Spirit (Romans 8:1-13; Galatians 5:16-26).
  77. They fail to stand fast (1 Thes. 3:8).
  78. They hate the brethren (1 John 3:15).
  79. They serve sin (John 8:32-36; Matthew 6:24).
  80. They yield to sin (Romans 6:14-23).
  81. They sow to the flesh (Galatians 6:7-8).
  82. They fail to hold fast to the end (Hebrews 3:6,12-14; Hebrews 4:1-11; Hebrews 6:19).
  83. They come short of the goal (Hebrews 4:1).
  84. They fail to labor to enter life (Hebrews 4:11; note, John 6:27).
  85. They fail to put to death the deeds of the body (Romans 8:12-13; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Col. 3:5-10).
  86. They refuse to walk in Christ as they received Him (Col. 2:6-7).
  87. They continue in sin thinking grace will abound (Romans 6).
  88. They turn heart back (Psalm 44:18).
  89. They decline to walk with God (Psalm 44:18).
  90. They turn way back (Isaiah 50:5; Jeremiah 38:22).
  91. They are rebellious (Isaiah 50:5).
  92. They cast law behind backs (Neh. 9:26).
  93. They turn their back on God (Jeremiah 2:27).
  94. They turn back from the Lord (Zeph. 1:6).
  95. They slide back from God (Jeremiah 8:5).
  96. They refuse to return to God (Jeremiah 8:5).
  97. They backslide many times (Jeremiah 14:7).
  98. They backslide like a heifer (Hosea 4:16).
  99. They go backward, not forward (Jeremiah 7:24).

All this indicates a man who once walked in the way of God but has now turned against Him; a man who fought the world, the flesh, and the devil and has retreated from battle and joined the enemy; a man who once belonged with saints, but is now removed from them; and a man who has been overcome by sin and Satan and is filled with his own ways