Father, we pray and ask of you to be our teacher tonight that we might understand you more and more every day.

And your name we pray, and all God's people said?

Amen. Amen.

Amen. We're looking at this message series titled Apostasy, meaning

departure from the faith or reality. And the argument is this, reality being that if you

just use your mind, your heart, and if you don't mind me saying so,

throwing your entire self toward God to find out who he is and to discover his word from Genesis to revelation

that you just might find a great blessing in discovering

that this is the one who has announced to us that he has provided

so great a salvation.

Think about all of the religions of all of mankind throughout history,

whatever they may be, they have some form of redemption,

as bizarre as some of those religions or cults might be,

all the way up to the Judeo-Christian Bible. But apostasy is something

that the Bible tells us about in the last days and this portion of scripture is a grave warning that goes out to us.

Now remember it's my opinion, there's many scholars that have the same opinion, but we can't prove it. But this book written to the Hebrews in the

New Testament, it's written to those who took, listen, took their Judaism and their traditions and when they heard the gospel preached,

they actually did what you're supposed to do with it.

They took the Old Testament and applied it to what was being preached,

this New Testament, and found out, hey, this is the answer to what was promised in the past.

What was announced by Moses and the prophets, this is the record of

the fulfillment of all that. The Old Testament gives the promise the

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