Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

eing saved will not be in the area to feed the lambs personally or ifbecause of their great number he cannot possibly do the job himself,then in the face of the command of Christ he is responsible, as best he isable, to see that others who love the Lord feed the lambs. If he turnssome of the lambs over to a liberal church through a mistaken view of“Christian ethics,” he has betrayed the command of Christ to “Feed mylambs,” and has betrayed the lambs who trust his guidance andprotection. He has failed the Lord and the lambs by not obeying thecommand, “Beware of false prophets” (Matt. 7:15)—for the lambs areyet not mature enough to recognize for themselves the danger and thewickedness of the unbelief of modernism. To sidestep his duty as anundershepherd of the sheep by saying piously, “The same Holy Spiritmust be trusted to perfect that which he has begun,” 9 does not excusehis disobedience to a clearly commanded obligation.When Satan told Christ to cast Himself off the pinnacle of theTemple, Christ said, “It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lordthy God” (Matt. 4:7). Dr. Ferm’s excuse, which is not the excuse of Dr.Ferm only, is attempting to justify the disobedient evangelist’s placingthe young lambs for whom Christ shed His blood in a known andscripturally warned against danger on the grounds that the Holy Spirithas promised in Philippians 1:6 to protect them. This is tempting Godunnecessarily, and is precisely what Satan suggested to Christ when hesaid, “Cast thyself down” (Matt. 4:5). In this case the Holy Spirit willhave to perform his promise to those truly saved by using one cause oranother to bring them out of the liberal church and into sound churcheswhere they can grow in Christ without the poisoning influence ofliberalism and rationalism. Those who have made inquiries but who arenot as yet saved, by being channeled into a liberal church, humanlyspeaking, will be deprived of the opportunity of going on into belief aslong as they remain there because of the human rationalistic unbeliefwhich they will be cleverly fed.Thus Dr. Ferm’s ideas advocate disobedience by the evangelist tohis biblical obligation of protecting the lambs on the grounds that theHoly Spirit will protect them. He advocates that the commands writtenby the Spirit, the ultimate author of the Word of God, be disobeyed onthe grounds of the Spirit’s written promise of protection! However, such57