Spiritual Slipping
Hebrews 2:1 “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.” Here believers are warned to watch for and guard against spiritual slipping and drifting. This will happen if we don’t keep an eye on our spirituality. Slipping spiritually mostly happens so slow that if you don’t have some reference points to compare yourself to, you will have drifted and not even noticed it. Spirituality requires daily, personal attention and maintenance. Your spirituality is your own responsibility. Spirituality is not easy or automatic. 
The Word of God is the standard we should compare our lives to. It will reveal if you’re slipping. The Word is steadfast, so if anything has moved it’s you. If you let the Word slip by or away, then you’re slipping. James shows the Word to be your mirror (1:23-25), so how you look in it is the real you. 
Satan has a direction, desire (purpose) and destiny in mind for your slipping. We should fear slipping more than snakes. No one slips or drifts forward and upward but only backward and downward. You’ll not slip toward God, the church, sanctification or service but out and away from them. 
1- Slipping or drifting comes through neglect (to be careless of, or make light of), spiritual things. Not letting salvation (its life and purpose) hold the position of priority, prominence, and preciousness in our life.
2- Slipping comes through disobedience, hearing but not heeding the Word (the printed and preached Word). We slip as we let the Word slip away through disobedience and neglect. Your relationship to the Word is your true spirituality! Disobedience is an act of disrespect, disloyalty and defiance to the one giving you the Word. If the word spoken by angels was disobeyed and judged then how shall we escape if we neglect or let slip away the word given to us? Thus we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
3- Slipping comes through losing the greatness of your salvation. Not losing salvation but the greatness and bigness of it. Allowing the great effects of salvation to slip away. It gives a great life in a great Savior, produces a great change, gives great peace, causes great joy, has great love, taking us to a great place to live with a great Savior and going to have a great time.


- Pastor Barry Rackley

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