The Burning Bush Vol 9 No 2.pmd - Far Eastern Bible College

A STANDARD RAISED
on the immaculate Lord Himself. Any question posed against the Bible is
deemed an act of rebellion against the Triune God.
We affirm with Dean Burgon of Oxford that “The Bible is none other
than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the throne. Every book of it, every
chapter of it, every verse of it, every word of it, every syllable of it, every
letter of it, is direct utterance of the Most High. The Bible is none other
than the Word of God, not some part of it more, some part of it less, but all
alike the utterance of Him who sitteth upon the throne, faultless, unerring,
supreme.”
The Standard Bearer
Now the standard, which is the Word of God, and its subsidiary the
ICCC Doctrinal Statement, insofar as the 20th Century Reformation is
concerned, requires a standard bearer. Isaiah says, “And he saw that there
was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor” (Isa 59:16). In
Ezekiel, the Lord laments, “And I sought for a man among them, that
should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land,
that 1 should not destroy it; but 1 found none” (Ezek 22:30). Praise God,
in the year that King Uzziah died, when the Lord sought for such a man
“Whom shall 1 send, and who will go for us,” then Isaiah replied, “Here
am I; send me.” Praise God, when the enemy came in like a flood in our
generation in the rise of the ecumenical movement and organization of the
WCC, God raised up a man, our beloved president Dr Carl McIntire, to be
His standard bearer. We thank God for giving him the wisdom and
courage to counter by a 20th Century Reformation Movement, organised
as the ICCC, in Amsterdam in August of 1948, at the same place and time
the WCC was organised. We thank God that for His own Name’s sake, He
has raised him up from a fatal disease as He did King David in Psalm 41.
Thank God, today is a day of victory for one who has suffered all kinds of
abuse and sustained every kind of attack for Jesus’ sake.
Who is the standard bearer? Not a great company of people; no, not
numbers, not a mighty organization, not a powerful financial backing, but
a man. A man like Isaiah who “trembles at his Word” (Isa 66:5), a man
like David “after God’s own heart.” Our prayer for the ICCC is that God
may give our president above all a double portion of His Spirit, as He
gave Elisha, after Elijah. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,
saith the Lord of hosts” is the further testimony of a later prophet,
Zechariah. And we pray, indeed, the Lord may give our president the
extra years he has asked, according to his faith.
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