In addition to preaching the Gospel to the lost (Mk.16:15), and
teaching all the Word of God to the saved (Matt.28:20), it is also the
solemn duty of the Lord’s servants to “earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3); for they are “set
for the defence of the gospel” (Phil.1:17). Thus, not only are they to
be “holding forth the word of life” (Phil.2:16), but also, they are to
be “holding fast the faithful word” as they have been taught, that they
“may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayers” (Tit.1:9). They are to actively and vociferously stand
against the heretical errors of the age. When a servant of the Lord does
this, then only will it be truly said of him, as it was of David of
old, that he “served his own generation by the will of God” (Acts
13:36).
Every age has its heresies with which the Church must contend. Some
are perennial — they are faced by the Church in almost every age.
Romanism, for example, and Arminianism, are evils against which the
Church of Christ has had to contend for centuries. Others, however, are
peculiar to certain periods in the Church’s history. Continue at Shaun Willcock
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