What Are The Children of God to do? David asked the question, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3.) Without a doubt, the Psalmist had in mind the attitude of the saint when the foundations of state and society are attacked. Truth, righteousness, justice, law and order form the basis of a nations social and theocratic fabric. But when the righteousness is perverted, society is corrupt, and the righteous are despised, what are the children of God to do? While unable, in themselves, to remedy the perversion of morals, they can exercise faith in God who, because of his sovereignty, is well able to right all wrongs. From the time of the apostles, other foundations have been assailed. Apostasy preaches the gospel of destruction. Modernism, in open and secret ways, has ever sought to abolish the pillars of truth. The fundamentals of the Christian faith are being attacked, being reckoned out of course (Psalm 82:5.) What are the righteous to do? First of all, they must exercise a deep and ever deepening faith in the indestructibility of Holy Writ. Modernists or liberals may try to destroy the foundations of Christianity, but like all foundations of God, they stand sure (2 Timothy 2:19.) In spite of the effort of adverse critics to mutilate many of the Bible books and doctrines, we seem to hear all sixty-six books forming the Divine Library saying, Do thyself no harm, we are all here. The Scriptures cannot be destroyed or broken. They are settled in heaven. In the next place, when the Word of God is attacked, the righteous must earnestly contend for the faith (Jude 1:3), which the Lord enables them to do without becoming contentious. But if the integrity of the Scriptures is to be contended for, and all the faith and doctrine they contain upheld, they must be prayerfully studied and clearly comprehended. -Herbert Lockyer
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:29:45 +0000
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