How to Backslide
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
No Christian ever plans on backsliding, that is, moving away from Christ. Yet it happens. The prophet Jeremiah even admitted, “Our backslidings are many” (Jeremiah 14:7). Sometimes, a city can be in shambles because the lives of its people are in shambles. Nehemiah left Jerusalem for a short time and returned to find the people had gone back to practicing their old ways. Let’s consider four mistakes they made and how to prevent them from happening to us.
I. Misplace Your Bible (vv. 1-3)
II. Misalign Your Companions (vv. 4-9)
III. Misarrange Your Priorities (vv. 10-22)
IV. Mismanage Your Family (vv. 23-24)
Talk with God: Prayerfully consider the people you turn to for encouragement and advice. Are you surrounding yourself with strong, healthy believers who will sharpen you (see Proverbs 27:17) and urge you to grow in your faith?
Talk with others: Ask a believing friend or mentor to hold you accountable to pray and spend time in the Word daily as you recommit to a habit or create a new one.
Talk with kids: How did Gideon test God’s words?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers, |
| 0:07.5 | we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls. |
| 0:16.4 | It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and |
| 0:25.9 | obedience rather than fear or despair. |
| 0:28.7 | This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into |
| 0:34.7 | a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action. |
| 0:44.3 | I hope and trust that during this very difficult week you have run into the arms of Jesus |
| 0:51.3 | and have been sheltered by his love and his promises. |
| 0:55.3 | A Wednesday night, we had a good time of prayer, and we talked about the events of this week. |
| 1:00.1 | It's been a difficult week, not only with the assassination of a very bright, young, |
| 1:05.2 | articulate soldier for the cross, but also school shooting in Colorado, a murder on a subway or a train. |
| 1:17.8 | Murder just seems to be rampant in our country, and it hit us all at one time this week, as well as 9-11, 24 years since that event. |
| 1:31.2 | So a lot happened in one week. |
| 1:34.5 | And we live between two gardens. |
| 1:36.4 | We live between the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Heaven. |
| 1:39.5 | And during this season of history, we have the same refuge we've always had. |
| 1:48.6 | Our God is a tower of strength, the Bible says, and the righteous run to him and are safe. |
| 1:55.4 | And so we look to his promises because we are overcomers. |
| 2:06.5 | And we want to face the future without fear and in great faith. |
| 2:12.0 | Well, I'm going to have you turn in your Bibles today to the book of Nehemiah. We're in that series currently, Nehemiah chapter 13. And I have a sort of an odd title for this message. It's called how to backslide. |
| 2:21.1 | So if you want to backslide, this is your ticket on how to do it. And of course, I know you don't. |
| 2:30.7 | And I want to show you how not to as well. |
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