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Backsliding (+)

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Backslidding (+) refers to people who call themselves saved, or believers, or associate themselves as the people of God but who have no evidences in their lives.

See also Spiritual Blindness, Lukewarmness.

Backsliding Concordance

Backsliding – Is when a believer turns away from God and goes after his sinful ways.

Concordance of Verses

Is turning from God 1Ki 11:9
Is leaving the first love Re 2:4
Is departing from the simplicity of the gospel 2Co 11:3; Ga 3:1-3; 5:4,7
God is displeased at Ps 78:57,59
Warnings against Ps 85:8; 1Co 10:12
Guilt and consequences of Nu 14:43; Ps 125:5; Isa 59:2,9-11; Jer 5:6; 8:5,13; 15:6; Lu 9:62
Brings its own punishment Pr 14:14; Jer 2:19
A haughty spirit leads to Pr 16:18
Proneness to Pr 24:16; Ho 11:7
Liable to continue and increase Jer 8:5; 14:7
Exhortations to return from 2Ch 30:6; Isa 31:6; Jer 3:12,14,22; Ho 6:1
Pray to be restored from Ps 80:3; 85:4; La 5:21
Punishment of tempting others to the sin of Pr 28:10; Mt 18:6
Not hopeless Ps 37:24; Pr 24:16
Endeavour to bring back those guilty of Ga 6:1; Jas 5:19,20
Sin of, to be confessed Isa 59:12-14; Jer 3:13,14; 14:7-9
Pardon of, promised 2Ch 7:14; Jer 3:12; 31:20; 36:3
Healing of, promised Jer 3:22; Ho 14:4
Afflictions sent to heal Ho 5:15
Blessedness of those who keep from Pr 28:14; Isa 26:3,4; Col 1:21-23
Hateful to saints Ps 101:3

Exemplified

Israel. Ex 32:8; Ne 9:26; Jer 3:11; Ho 4:16
Saul. 1Sa 15:11
Solomon. 1Ki 11:3,4
Peter. Mt 26:70-74

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Agriculture (+)

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• Divine institution of Gen 2:15; 3:19, 23
• Practiced by:
– Cain Gen 4:2
– Noah Gen 9:20
– Elisha 1Kgs 19:19
– David 1Chr 27:26-31
– Uzziah 2Chr 26:10
– Solomon Eccl 2:4-6
• God to be acknowledged in Jer 5:24; Hos 2:8
• Requires:
– Requires: Isa 28:26
– Diligence Prov 27:23,27; Eccl 11:6
– Patience Jas 5:7
– Toil 2Tim 2:6
• Persons engaged in, called:
– Husbandmen 2Chr 26:10
– Laborers Matt 9:37; 20:1
– Tillers of the ground Gen 4:2
• Planters of vineyards exempted from military service
– Fruits blasted because of sin Deut 20:6; Isa 5:10; 7:23; Jer 12:13; Joel 1:10-11
– Laws concerning Exod 22:5-6; 34:21-22; 20:9; 23:12; Deut 5:13-14; Lev 19:9-10, 19, 23-25; 25:2-12; Exod 23:10-11; Lev 25:15-16, 19-28; Deut 22:9-10; 23:24-25; Matt 12:1; Deut 24:19-21; Prov 3:9-10; Eccl 5:9; Prov 27:23-27
• Facts about
– General references Gen 8:22; 1Sam 13:19-21; Isa 28:24-28; Matt 13:3-8; 2Cor 9:6; Gal 6:7 Husbandman
• Figurative:
– Fallow ground Jer 4:3
– Sowing wheat, but reaping thorns Jer 12:13
– Parable of the sower Matt 13:3-8, 19-23; Luke 8:5-15
– Parable of the tares Matt 13:24-30, 36-43

Potter’s Wheel

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Potter’s Wheel is used in Scripture to represent a creating God. In other words, it highlights the fact that God has unlimited and unrestricted creative abilities, both in what He makes as well as what characteristics He endows His creatures with.

Potter’s Wheel Meaning

The Potter’s Wheel has a symbolism associated with it. He describes the creative activity of God in making things the way He wishes them to be.

God cannot be held responsible for how He makes things. There is no right of a creature to demand or rebuke God for how He made them. God works according to the method that brings glory to Himself, how he decides, and neither man nor angel has the right to rebuke God for anything. Satan will use anything he can to attack the righteousness of God, but Satan has to deal with God as his Creator, and as sure he (being a creature like us) has no authority nor right to tell God He has worked incorrectly.

The no-rebuke and no-complaint points are very important because a creature must accept the will of the Creator for their life. The potter makes one vessel for glory and another for dishonor. For example, one vessel to sit on the table while you eat, and another to wash your backside after going to the bathroom. One light is a chandelier and another one is a hall light for the bathroom at night. That is the decision of the Potter and not the thing created.

See also God as Creator on TheologicalSystem.com a website by Pastor David Cox, Webmaster

More Work-Related Bible Dictionary Terms

    God as Creator are works about God’s bring other things, persons, etc. into existence in the Creation that God has made. This act is God acting as a Creator. God thinks and works holistically. God made man, but God also made animals and plants before he made man so that man could sustain himself by having things to eat. Furthermore, God made man, but God in his wisdom understood that man alone is really boring and depressing, so he made a different kind of “man”, woman. That really livened thing up for man and men!

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