Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

that the Lord in His humanity, that is, acting like a mortal man, choseJudas as a disciple on the basis of his acceptable outward profession, allthe while knowing in His divine nature that this was to be the traitor.Christ, here acted like a common man who judges by the externalappearance, so that among the many purposes in the mind of God forthis selection, Christ could be the example to every Christianundershepherd who is betrayed by one of his fellow laborers who waschosen by virtue of his sound and orthodox external profession. So evenin the case of Iscariot, Christ did not bring along a co-worker who was aliberal heretic by profession, for Judas was an orthodox faithful followerof Christ to all mortal eyes. Once, however, Judas showed outwardly histrue color he was immediately rejected!Since Christ never came before the public as a co-worker, acooperator with, or as a preacher sponsored by the unbelieving Phariseesand the heterodox Sadducees, no argument based on them is valid thatdeclares that an evangelist today does not need to inquire of his coworkersconcerning these matters. This is true because Christcontinually, as it has been established earlier in this monograph, rebukedthe Pharisees for their formalistic dead legalism and for theirheterodoxical unbelief in Christ’s messiahship and the strife betweenChrist and them issued in blood, the death of the Lord. It is true becauseconcerning the doctrine of the Sadducees, Christ openly proclaimedtheir error with His words, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, northe power of God” (Matt. 22:29; 22:23-33), and warned men to bewareof their leaven (Matt. 16:6).Thus Dr. Ferm’s statement, “On no occasion did he [the Lord]inquire concerning the theology or even the conduct of those to whom[italics mine] he went to minister,” is seen to be of questionableaccuracy, to suggest improper grounds for the false inference that theLord was not concerned with these areas, and to not apply at all to theLord’s policy with respect to those with whom He came to minister norto the Lord’s desires with respect to those with whom an orthodoxChristian worker cooperates.The second statement which requires examination in this section isDr. Ferm’s assertion, “Nevertheless [i.e., in spite of the sectariandivisions of the Hebrew religion] one who reads the record of the New65