They Left Us because They are not of Us | Rapp Report Daily 0037 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So I was addressing yesterday the fact that there are sometimes people who make the claim that they used to be a
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- Christian, and they do this to claim that they have some form of authority when speaking on Christianity.
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- We talked yesterday about the fact that a Christian's ultimate authority is God and the
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- Bible. However, there is one key verse that I always bring up with someone. If someone says, I used to be a
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- Christian, I always turn to 1 John 2 .19, and it says, They went out from us, but they were not of us.
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- For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.
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- But they went out that it might be plain that they all were not of us.
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- The fact is that if they claim they used to be a Christian, then they believe what the
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- Bible says. And this verse says that if anyone leaves the Christian faith, quote unquote faith that is, then it means that they were never of the faith.
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- They went out from among us to expose they were never one of us.
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- They were nothing more than hypocrites that stopped pretending. When someone claims they used to be a
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- Christian, what you know now is that they were once a hypocrite that stopped pretending.
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- They were someone that said they were a Christian when they were not a Christian. And they went out from among us to show the world and all of us that they were never one of us.
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