1. Losing
Your
Soul
Matt. 16:26

2. Prior to that being a Reality, Real Danger of Losing our Faith
Matt. 24:10 - “many will fall away” (ESV) – “Many will lose their faith” (NCV)
Luke 22:32 – Lord prayed for Peter that “your faith should not fail”
NCV – “that you will not lose your faith”
Phillips – “that you may not lose your faith”
“Fail”
“fail, give out, be gone; depart; fail, die out; be inferior” (BDAG)
Fail – “quit” (Thayer)
“to leave out – to leave off, cease, fail” (Vines)

3. Losing
Your
Faith
Luke 22:32

4. Not All Faith is the Same
Losing Your Faith
Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith

5. Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
People have different levels of faith
Weak faith (Rom. 4:19)
Strong faith (Rom. 4:20; Acts 16:5)
Little faith (Matt. 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8)
Great faith (Matt. 8:10)

6. Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
People have different levels of faith
Faith can change
Can grow (2 Thess. 1:3)
Can increase (Luke 17:5)
Strengthened (Col. 1:11; Eph. 3:16)
Your faith doesn’t always stay the same
What it WAS – may not be what it IS now!
What it IS now – may not be what it WILL BE!

7. Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
People have different levels of faith
Faith can change
Possible to have faith – yet not what should be
Faith may be very weak
Faith may be very shallow
Faith may give away very easily
False sense of security – if think: “Still have my faith”

8. Not All Faith is the Same
Losing Your Faith
Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
Not All Faith Will Last
Faith Can be Lost

9. Not All Faith Will Last Can lose faith altogether
Faith Can be Lost
Can lose faith altogether
Fail – lose it (Luke 22:32)
Deny it (1 Tim. 5:8)
Depart from it (1 Tim. 4:1)
Shipwreck (1 Tim. 1:19)
Stray from (1 Tim. 6:10, 21)
Overthrow (2 Tim. 2:18)
Cast off (1 Tim. 5:11-12; Heb. 10:35, 39)
Reach point of unbelief (Heb. 3:12)

10. Not All Faith Will Last Can lose faith altogether
Faith Can be Lost
Can lose faith altogether
What it means to lose your faith
Standing ground shaken – crumbles and is gone (Heb. 11:1)
No longer depend upon God (Luke:18:1, 8)
No longer function because of God’s word!
Lost all hope (1 Pet. 1:9) [“Don’t count on hope when faith is gone”]

11. Not All Faith is the Same Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
Losing Your Faith
Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
Not All Faith Will Last
Faith Can be Lost
Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
How We Lose Our Faith

12. Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
How We Lose Our Faith
It may well be that we are
doing / tolerating things
that are destroying what faith we have!

13. Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
How We Lose Our Faith
Lack of study – fail to feed it (Rom. 10:17; Col. 1:9-11)
Missing worship (Heb. 10:24-25; Eph. 5:19)
Fail to grow (2 Pet. 1:5-11)
Secular education (1 Cor. 1:18-23)
Fail to use what faith we have (Luke 17:5-10)
Distance self from Lord & others (Matt. 26:58)
Pressure of the environment (John 18:18, 25-27)

14. Not All Faith is the Same Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
Losing Your Faith
Not All Faith is the Same
Differing Degrees of Faith
Not All Faith Will Last
Faith Can be Lost
Not All We Do is Good for Our Faith
How We Lose Our Faith