What does it mean to forsake Christ?

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The word “forsake” is found several times in the Bible. Paul said “Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world” (1 Tim. 4:10). Peter wrote about those who “have forsaken the right way and gone astray…” (2 Pet. 2:15). Moses “forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king” (Heb. 11:27). The same writer warns us “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some…” (Heb. 10:25). To forsake is to make a choice to leave behind, to abandon. There is a difference between being absent and forsaking. The person who stays home because he is sick, or some other legitimate reason, has not forsaken, but to be willfully absent is to forsake. “Harsh correction is for him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof will die” (Prov. 15:10).