“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” — Romans 1:16

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The Bible reveals two ways which people are following to get into heaven. One way, the true way, is God’s way. God’s way into heaven is the way of peace and truth and righteousness. It is the only way approved of God. This way centers in the Lord Jesus Christ who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). The Bible declares that there is another way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).

There are so many popular ways today filled with lost multitudes all over the land, such as the way of morality, the way of respectability, the way of religion, the way of churchianity, the way of baptism, the way of christening, the way of confirmation, the way of penance, the way of confession, the way of “doing the best I can”, the way of self, the way of education, the way of philosophy, the way of false isms and cults that crowd the street. Little wonder then when we speak to people about the way of salvation, that so many have asked, “How can I know which is the true way? There are so many different ideas and so many religions.”

But there is ONE difference between God’s way of salvation and man’s way, and that difference is found in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You will notice that man leaves Christ out of the center of his way. You will discover that the modern false cults and isms demote Christ to a mere man and add something to what He has already done for your salvation and mine. We become children of God through a supernatural birth. Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7)

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                            Seven Reasons Why Christians Fail – II

    ” The Backslider in heart shall be filled  with his own ways…..”  Proverbs 14:14

    Yes, some people fall away because they are not saved in the first place. Now the other six we are going to look in to have to do with people who are saved. Those who know that they are saved, born again by the Spirit of God.

    2.The Neglect of the Word of God: We read in Matthew 4:4, Jesus said, “ Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedth out of the mouth of God…..” our body needs to get food and if it does not get food eventually it will die of hunger.   Your soul needs food. It is the word of God. In 1st Peter 2:2 we are told “ …to desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow there by.” you have a baby, how is he going to grow? Milk! In the normal case a child does not go on to bread for his feeding! After words they go unto other things; the meat, the bones; some of the Bible is like meat and hard bones, more difficult to understand than others.

    Some people fall away because they do not read the word of God and pray everyday as they ought to. Jesus said, “ if ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you.” John 15:7  Believers must memorize Scripture verses if that is going to be effectual in your life. if you want to be a fruit bearing  Christian you have to have the word of God hidden in you. So that when problems arise, when temptations come in to your life, when you face obstacles and difficulties; when trials and testings arise; Scripture verses will arise to counter that, and deter that temptation to do evil. And you will have the strength to resist! Psalm 119:10-11 reads, “ O let me not wonder from thy commandments; thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee.”

    Beloved, for your benefit, and for the benefit of your church, memorize Scripture. You know what? The younger you start doing that the better. The older you are the harder it is going to be. 99 out of a hundred who have attained a certain years, would agree with what we are saying. The writer of this article would agree to that and he testifies to the fact that, “ it is harder for him now to memorize Scripture now, than it was years ago.” Sure enough he testifies that he still works at it!  Hebrews 12:2 we read, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame….” Now, this is not just looking to heaven; we don’t know how one can look to Jesus without looking in the book. Reading the Bible, memorizing the Scripture; hiding the word in your heart; and then applying it in our daily life.   Beloved, it is never too late! For as long as you are alive and in your right mind, do it, you will be blessed, and be a blessing to others!!

    3.The Neglect of Prayer: And then we have the matter of prayer: Over and over again in the Word of God it speaks the importance of prayer. We read in Matthew 26:21, Jesus said, “ watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. For the Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.” watch and pray! Yes we need the Word of God and then we need prayer! Again in Acts 2 in the day of Pentecost, Peter preached that Christ was the Messiah, these people believed and got saved, and in verse 42, we read, “ And they that gladly received his word were baptized....” and verse 42 , “and they continued steadfastly in the doctrine of the apostles ( which has to do with the word of God; not only the preaching, but we need to read and study it ourselves) and fellowship, and in the breaking of breads, and in prayers..” yes, they continued to pray together, and there is no doubt they continued also to pray individually!

    Beloved, if you are going to go on with God, you are going to have sometime everyday for the Bible and for prayer! Bible reading (study) without prayer  or Prayer without Bible study would amount to the soul’s starving of the food and the power.  We are not going to amount to much of a Christian without these two essentials! They go together!    We may be saved; you know, sad to say, there are many Christians who are babies all their life’s! Have you heard of the saying, “ growing old without growing up?” that is a pathetic thing when it happens physically; now how much more when this becomes the truth of some Christians in their spiritual lives.

    The writer of this article recalls a story about; when he was a young Christian convert, working with young people; there was one family, that  had a number of children, quite a big family, they had eight or nine children, and they had this little baby, and everything was fine, and they noticed after a while, about six months the baby did not grow. Of course they took him to the Doctor. I am not sure if they found out what was wrong. But anyway the baby lived six to eight months and he died. Beloved, you are not really going to grow unless you take time to read the word of God and pray! One thing is clear; We do nothing to be saved, but to trust the finished work of Christ.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              But growth does not come by hearing preaching only, which is needful and important; but we have to have our devotion and time with the Lord everyday. The Psalmist David, said he took time with God, “ morning, noon and night.”   Set sometime everyday; when your spirit is fed with the Word of God- allowing God to speak to you, and when you communicate with God in prayer – letting Him know your needs, and praying for others. Now, every persons situation may be different- as some people have to work night shifts; the best time would be to get up before the sun before you go to work and your breakfast.

    A believer who has trusted Christ as His personal savior, and has received all the benefits and privileges of being a child of God, would have no time for reading the word of God and prayer? And you don’t have time for God except you get in trouble? God forbid that would be our testimony, before God and the world!

    4.Some get their eyes off Christ and turn to the world: In 2nd Timothy 4:10 we have Demmus as a classic example of these type. The apostle Paul was writing from personal experience, as the Spirit of God allowed him, he said, “ Demmus has forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica, Crescense to Galatia, and Titus to Damaltia.” Now, you read many of Paul’s epistles when he sends greeting to the churches that the name of Demmus is there. He has travelled with the apostle Paul for many years. Here Paul is in his last imprisonment. In his first imprisonment in Rome Demmus was still with him. Perhaps Demmus visited many jails (at the courtesy of the local authorities) with Paul along the way.

    But then, Demmus got his eyes off Christ; may be he got his eyes on his problems – on the persecution and so forth; but what really lead him away was the love of this world. He went back to the world! Backslidden! Was Demmus saved? No doubt that he was! But we say what, he will be a sad Christian when he stood before God.   Beloved, worldliness is a great slayer of God’s people. Watch your companion, and all this entertainment media;  the TV, the internet, the cell phones we carry with us all the day long! It says in the book of James that, “ true religion is to keep himself unspotted from the world.” 

    We are saved, and we need to be separate and not to be like the world. The Bible says in Galatians 1:4, “ … Christ died to deliver us from this present evil world.” the whole system is evil. It is all based on self: self-satisfying, self-pleasing and so forth. 1st John 2:15 we read, “ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world…The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life...”

    Many Christians fall away from God and the church and become useless in the Lord’s work, because they get their eyes on the world; and the worldly Christian is nothing worth much. If you are saved, and you are a born again Christian thank God for that! But what can you accomplish being outside of the will of God? God does not hear your prayers; you have lost your joy!   Thank God you can not loose your salvation, which is once and for all eternity! But you lose your joy, lose fellowship, and you become a miserable and convicted . Here is a typical example of a backslidden believer; Lot in Sodom; He went down to Sodom, and pitched his tent towards it; at the beginning it did not look so bad; and then little by little he built a house and became a citizen and he lived among them and the Bible says in 2nd Peter 2:7-9, “…. Lot vexed with the filtlhy conversion of the wicked. (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.)….”

    Apparently what he saw in the beginning was bad, but he lived with them, he worked with them; he became a leader (he sat at the gate- he became one of their elders) he even married his children with them. Proverbs 14:14 says, “ the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.” Worldliness is a great rudiment for the people of God. We read in Colossians 3:1-3 we read, “ set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth…” put your hearts and your minds in the things of God!   Beloved, we are living in a very sensual, lude world. The Bible says, “ such were some of you…” but now, once we are saved, we are on a different wavelength; “ if any man be in Christ he is a new creature….”

    It May Be Hard Going Forward, But It Is Worse Going Back !!

    To be Continued………………………………

                                                  From The Peoples Gospel Hour Staff

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