2. Ways to lose your faith

3. Heb. 12:1 – Endurance Race
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

4. John 6:66-67
“As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew, and were not walking with Him anymore. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, ‘You do not want to go away also, do you?’”

5. Betty – New Faith
Are There Signs
To Falling Away?

6. #1 – You Begin to Isolate Yourself From Your Spiritual Family
Heb 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.”

8. #2 – You Don’t Share Your Struggles With Anyone
Every Christian Struggles With Personal Sin and Failure.
If We Think We are the Only Ones Who Do, We Are Fooling Ourselves.
We Live in a Private Society, Unless You’re On TV.
We Need to be Careful of Pride, Shame, Embarrassment.

10. Never Ask For Help or Give It.
James 5:16 “Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.”

11. Never Accept Help
Acts 18:26 “And he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.”

12. #3 – You Don’t Fill Your Life With Godly Thoughts
So What Do You Fill Your Life With?
Imagine That You Only Ate One Meal a Week – Sunday Morning.

13. #3 – You Don’t Fill Your Life With Godly Thoughts
Rom 8:5-6
“For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.”

14. #4 – Let Weak Christians Bring You Down.
Matt. 18:5-7
Believe It or Not, Some Christians Do More Harm than Good.

15. Betty – New Faith
Are There Signs
To Falling Away?