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do you do It is easy to assume that those who attend church regularly or who are involved in ministry work are somehow safeguarded from any kind of spiritual decay.

Alistair Begg warns us that no one is exempt from the danger of backsliding.

Today on Truth for Life

we'll learn how to care for those who may be wandering

from the faith.

We're looking at the closing verses of James Chapter 5.

Our title of this evening is Winning Back The Wanderers. But before we think about winning back those who wander, we are

confronted by the letter of James forcing us to ask of ourselves, am I beginning to wander? Am I a wanderer? And if so, what am I

personally going to do about it.

Murray McShane, who died at the age of 29,

and preached remarkable sermons even though he was so youthful,

preaches in the mid part of his ministry a sermon from Hosia chapter 7 in verse 9

which reads, gray hairs are here and thereupon him, yet he knoweth not. He said these words describe a state of

secret backsliding, the most dangerous perhaps of any. It is a common thing for persons growing up in

years to turn old and gray-headed without observing it. Most people are unwilling to be thought old. They do not love

to notice the progress of decay and the marks of old age are allowed to steal upon

them unobserved. And then he says, somewhat remarkably,

the teeth drop out one by one. This is a commentary on the time in which he lived and also on Scottish dentistry.

The hand loses its steadiness, the limbs lose their elasticity. The eye becomes dim, and gray hairs

are here and there upon the head. And we are in old age before we are aware. So it is in the decay of the soul in divine things. It creeps up upon us in such a way as we are unobservant of and when confronted by often unwilling to face. And he goes on to say to his congregation,

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