A Warning to the Backslider

Summary

Elder Michael Goans delivers a sermon warning against backsliding, emphasizing the reality of apostasy among professing Christians as foretold in Scripture. He examines Hebrews 6:4-9, rejecting both the Arminian view that salvation can be lost and the Calvinist view that some are merely false professors, proposing instead that true believers who willfully reject the gospel reveal a hardened heart unlikely to repent without divine intervention. The sermon underscores the doctrines of total depravity and eternal security, distinguishing between sonship and discipleship, and calls believers to remain faithful despite persecution and cultural opposition.