0099. Apostates From the Faith–Their Danger

Apostates From the Faith–Their Danger

"These are spots in your feasts" (Jdg_1:12).

The word translated "spots," is "spilades," "sunken rocks." The figure is most suggestive. Sunken rocks are a menace. They are sunken rocks because they are deep down in the mud of their denials; they are sunken rocks because they are hiding under the cover of a pure orthodoxy.

"They are sunken rocks in your feasts of love, when they feast with you." What a gracious warning God has given us in these words! Let us open our eyes to our danger.

Let the angels weep! "Reprobates concerning the faith," sitting at feast with the faithful!

Let the heavens marvel! Those who "have departed from the faith" sitting at food with those "nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine."

Let the saints tremble! Those who have "wandered away from the faith" sitting at the table with those who "fight the good fight of faith".

Shall we feast with them? Shall the "wisdom that cometh down from above" feast with "the wisdom of this world"; the wisdom which crucified the Lord of Glory?

Shall those who believe that "without shedding of blood is no remission" fellowship with the so-called "respectable intellect" that partakes of the Lord’s Supper, but denies the efficacy of the Cross?

Shall those who believe that "without shedding of blood is no remission" fraternize with the "advanced thinker" of this world who keeps Easter, but denies the resurrection?

These men are "sunken rocks," hidden rocks, danger points in our "feasts." Rocks where hundreds "concerning faith have made shipwreck;" rocks where multitudes have "departed from the faith" have "turned aside unto Satan."

Let "good ministers of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine;" let those who "refuse profane and old wives’ fables;" let those who would avoid "profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-called," cease to feast, to fellowship and to fraternize with those who are "hidden rocks in their feasts of love."

Welcome to your feasts of love the scholarship that sits at the feet of the Lord Jesus and learns of Him; but wisely avoid the scholarship that seeks to instruct the Almighty.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR