{"id":1336,"date":"2016-05-24T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:17:50","slug":"apostasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Apostasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here are the completed notes from the Sunday Evening Worship Service May 22, 2016:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Apostasy: \u00a0To fall away &#8211; The abandoning of the truth, a deliberate rejection of the truth after it is known.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An apostate can acknowledge Christ without accepting Him. \u00a0Apostates have received light but not life.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus &#8211; Matthew 7:15<br \/>\nPaul &#8211; Acts 20:29, 30<br \/>\nPeter &#8211; II Peter 2:1, 2<\/p>\n<p>The Apostles informed Christians that Apostasy would come:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acts 20:29, 30<\/li>\n<li>I Timothy 4:1<\/li>\n<li>II Timothy 3:1, 5, 7, 8<\/li>\n<li>II Timothy 4:3<\/li>\n<li>I John 2:18, 19<\/li>\n<li>II John 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They may know truth.<\/p>\n<p>They may seem to follow truth enthusiastically for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>They may identify with a church and become a part of the Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>They may become leaders in a church.<\/p>\n<p>The never believed the truth with an undivided heart.<\/p>\n<p>Tares among the wheat &#8211; Matthew 13:24-30 &#8211; (An appearance of authenticity for a while)<\/p>\n<p>They are defectors from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who has known the truth, given some show of affirmation to it, perhaps even proclaimed it for a while &#8211; but tragically rejected it in the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the completed notes from the Sunday Evening Worship Service May 22, 2016: Apostasy: \u00a0To fall away &#8211; The abandoning of the truth, a deliberate rejection of the truth<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=1336\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunnight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}