Continual Growth and Increasing Apostasy in America

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Continual Growth and Increasing Apostasy in
America

• But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and
  worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• 2 Timothy
  313 KJV
• While evil people and impostors will go on from
  bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived
  2 Timothy 313 ESV

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I. The Apostate Christians leave God into
their own way today

• They learn from the liberal philosophers idea of
  NEW MORALITY for those who have a right to choose
  for themselves
• The gay marriage.
• Abortion.
• Premarital sex
• Marijuana

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• II. The Apostate Christians are like King Saul in
  Israel.
• The Prophet Samuel yielded the right of the Jews
  who wanted to have a king in Israel like the
  world. 1
  Samuel 81-22
• King Saul feared the people and listened to their
  voice more than God. 1 Samuel
  1524
• Their effects the rapid growth of idols and sins
  in Israel.
• Their consequences wars and death.

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• III. The effects of the Apostasy in America
• According to Josh McDowell the author, the 1996
  research tells a statistical horror story of what
  is happening every day in America.
• 1,000 unwed teenage girls become mothers.
• 1,106 teenage girls get an abortion.
• 4,219 teenage contract a sexually transmitted
  disease (STD).
• 500 adolescents begin using drugs.

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• 1,000 adolescents begin drinking alcohol.
• 135,000 kids bring a gun or other weapon to
  school.
• 3,610 teens are assented 80 are raped.
• 2,200 teens drop out of high school.
• 2,700 kids watch their parents separate or
  divorce. 90 kids are taken from their parents
  custody and placed in foster care, a group home,
  or institutional care.
• 7 kids (ages 10-19) are murdered.
• 7 juveniles age 17 and under are arrested for
  murder
• 6 teens commit suicide.

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• IV. Straight Talk is Necessary
• Proverbs 1114- Where no counsel is, the people
  fall but in the multitude of counselors there is
  safety.
• Those who need straight talk are parents,
  teachers, counselors, and pastors.
• No passivity among the worldly people.
• Love the sinners as Christ loves them like you.
  John 1512

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• Be brave to give honest answers to every age.
  Colossians 46
• Give soft answer to those who feel angry, hurt or
  depressed. Proverbs 151
• Listen to feedback before dealing with their
  problems.
• Pray first before giving counsel.
• Share scripturally.
• The most important thing is to clean your heart
  before they will believe your honest answers.