For want of “counting the cost,” Demas forsook the company of Paul, forsook the Gospel, forsook Christ, forsook heaven. For a long time he journeyed with the great Apostle of the Gentiles, and was actually a “fellow-labourer.” But when he found he could not have the friendship of this world as well as the friendship of God, he gave up his Christianity and clave to the world. “Demas hath forsaken me,” says Paul, “having loved this present world.” (2 Timothy 4:10). He had not “counted the cost.”
