“But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrews 10:39).
Being right before God is ever contingent upon living by faith (Habakkuk 2:4). As long as a person lives by faith, he is righteous in the eyes of God. Should the occasion arise in which someone stops living by faith—like those who set their minds on earthly things (Philippians 3:19)—he leaves the strait and narrow path which leads to life and begins walking on the broad way which leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13).
Any person who quits living by faith and deserts Christ and His righteous cause is retreating spiritually into certain loss. Like the sons of perdition before him (John 17:12; 2 Thessalonians 2:3) and all false prophets and perverters of Scripture (2 Peter 2:1, 3:16), there is only eternal destruction and ruin ahead.
Surely none of us wants to be a Christian who draws back. It would have been better for us to have not known the way of righteousness than having known it to turn from it and draw back to perdition.
