Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

from the Holy Spirit working in the preacher’s heart as he prayerfullyconsiders his congregation’s current situation in light of the Scriptureswhich have been authored by the Spirit. His, the speaker’s manifoldobligations to glorify God by vindicating His truth against falsehood,error, and unbelief, to warn the wicked to repent (Ezek. 33:8), to preachthe Good Tidings to the lost, to instruct the Church in all things, tostrengthen and feed the flock of God (John 21:15-17), to warn the flockof God against wolves (Acts 20:26-31), and to protect the little ones(John 21:15; 10:12), can only be discharged by the preacher’s makingclear the mind of God, which is found in the Scriptures, on any givensubject when the need arises.Thus Dr. Ferm’s thrust does not take into consideration the need ofthe hour which exists because today’s world is rapidly falling away intounbelief and because the liberal Protestant churches are one of the greatagents of Satan for advancing the ideas that a Godless evolution isresponsible for our existence, that the Old Testament is a patchwork ofpseudonymed documents expressing a morality of a tyrannical antiquity,that Christ was not born of a virgin, did not do miraculous acts, did notactually bodily arise from the grave, that hell is a figment of the earlyChurch’s imagination rather than the eternal abode of the lost, and thatthe social gospel needs the Christians’ commitment in view of the factthat the fundamentalist dichotomy of the saved and the lost is a fancifulrelic of an uninspired Bible.Dr. Ferm’s thrust does not take into consideration the great need thatthe new inquirers and converts have of being warned to stay away fromthe influence of the great liberal churches, nor does it take away fromthe influence of the liberal churches, nor does it take into account thegreat sin of omission which an evangelist commits when he approves ofthe worthiness of liberal clerics by asking them to pray in public, as ifGod would bless because of the prayers of a heretic, and by so doing,not only fails to warn the lambs of the wolf, but encourages the lambs totrust the wolf for their sustenance. Thus, the need of the moment atevangelistic meetings is not only the preaching of the saving Gospel, butalso the warning of the sheep. The need of preaching against hypocrisyto babes in Christ with tears of decision in their eyes does not exist incomparison to the desperate need for these little ones to be warned67