Biblical Separation Defended - Far Eastern Bible College

against Satan’s most effective means of stunting their spiritual growthwhich is through the leaven of unbelief sown in the liberal churches. Theneed of speaking against hypocrisy to inquirers, who though not yetsaved desire to learn more of the Savior’s work, does not exist incomparison to the need of warning these of the liberal churches whowhile coveting their “membership” are haunted by Satan’s fowls whodesire to steal away the tiny seed of faith within the inquirer’s breast(Matt. 13:4,19).Dr. Ferm’s thrust neglects the weighty obligation that a conservativeevangelist has to vindicate the truth of God by giving the lie to theunbelief of the liberals and by denouncing them as false prophets. Can aconservative who cooperates with and approves of false prophets insteadof denouncing their sin, excuse himself to God by claiming that hepreaches against other sins? Is it not hypocrisy to appear as a prophet ofthe one true God and at the same time fellowship with the false prophetswho question the very historicity of the conservative’s God? The needhere is not for the preaching against hypocrisy in general, but for thepreaching against the hypocrisy of the wicked unbelief of the piouslookingmodernists who destroy the souls of men with their lies.Thus Dr. Ferm’s preaching emphasis thrust must be critiqued on thegrounds that it has forgotten the obligation a conservative evangelist hasto the Savior that redeemed his soul to emphasize whatever matter isneeded in order to faithfully vindicate God’s truth against theunbelieving clerics and in order to meet the need that the lambs have ofbeing warned against the modernist wolves. In this case preaching theGospel is not the only need, and the doing of this good thing does notclear an evangelist from unfaithfulness in meeting the needs of the hour!In short, Dr. Ferm’s point has neglected the necessity of preaching tomeet all of the important needs of the hearers!Another item to be noted is that the using of the Lord’s ministry as abasis for emphasis in today’s preaching must be done so withdiscernment. The Pharisees who were the legalists of the day wereChrist’s primary enemies, making themselves such, and one of theirgreat sins was hypocrisy. Their hypocrisy was centered about a falseestimate of their own self-righteousness based upon a legalistic ratherthan a redemptory concept of obtaining righteousness. This caused them68