SORROW OF A BACKSLIDER – Part 1

BY PASTOR JOHN

RECONCILIATION CENTRE BIBLE STUDY ONLINE

 ON 9th JUNE, 2020. 7-8pm

INTRODUCTION: The African has a proverb: until a woman has tried two husbands, she would not know that one is preferable to the other. Until man has tried two lives: one without Christ and the other in Christ, he would not know the difference. But what a sorrow it would be to have lived in the glorious liberty that is Christ’s and then go back into the world. May it never happen to you in Jesus name. Amen. This series of studies is to know the sorrow-s of such a backslider.  


THE LESSON OUTLINES:

1.THE LIFE OF SINNER IS A WRETCHED ONE: DON’T GO BACK TO IT

2.THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST IS A GLORIOUS ONE: PLEASE JOIN US AND STAY WITH US


1. THE LIFE OF SINNER IS A WRETCHED ONE: DON’T GO BACK TO IT

The life of a sinner is wretched and terrible one. The bible gives a graphic description of the life of a sinner and it is quite unenviable. It is a life 
(i) without peace, 
(ii) without rest 
(iii) full of pains 
(iv) full of affliction 
(v) full of hardship
 (vi) full of tribulation
 (vii) full of anguish 
(viii) full of misery 
(ix) full of destruction 
(x) full of sorrows, etc.
 Besides, there is the constant dread that he will end up in hell where he will be tormented forever. 
If you are a sinner, you must get out of such life immediately. If a saved soul, do not go back to such a wretched life.
Isa.57:20-21, 28:15, 21:4, 23:12, Job.15:20, 7:3, Ps.107:17, 38:8, Rev.14:11, Rom.3:16, 2:9, James.5:1 Ecc.2:23, Deut.28:67, Jud.2:15   


2. THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST IS A GLORIOUS ONE: PLEASE JOIN US AND STAY WITH US

Contrary to the life of a sinner, the life in Christ offers you
 (i) joy
 (ii) peace
 (iii) hope 
(iv) victory 
(v) comfort
 (vi) power 
(vii) royalty 
(viii) spiritual blessings 
(ix) glory etc. 
If you have not tested it, join us today.
 If you are already in it, stay with us, don’t go back to sorrow.
John.15:11, 16:24, 14:27, 14:19, 16:33, 14:18, 14:1-3, Rom.15:13, Isa.3:10, 1Jn.4:4, Ps.23:1, 34:10, Phil.4:19, 4:13, matt.16:19, 1Peter.2:9, Eph.1:3, Col.1:27.