Boldness
Today
Pastor
Cornelius R. Stam
Some may suppose
that it would require little boldness today to proclaim grace in all its
purity. Who is ever persecuted now, at least in free, enlightened lands, for
preaching God’s grace? Ah, but do not be deceived. Satan was no less active in
his opposition to the truth when Constantine exalted the professing Church to
prominence than when his predecessors persecuted the Church and sent its
members to death by fire and sword. Indeed, the devil was doubtless more
successful in Constantine’s day than he had been when persecution raged.
Does any believer
in the Word of God suppose that Satan has relented in his opposition to the
truth today, just because men, at least in this land, are not burned at the
stake or thrown to the lions? Do not be misled. Satan’s enmity against God and
against His Word continues undiminished. His hatred of “the gospel of the grace
of God,” is as bitter, and his opposition to it as determined as it ever was.
But well does he know that the constant discouragements connected with being in
the minority often succeed in silencing those who would stand against physical
persecution.
Today Satan uses
the new evangelicalism with its highly- organized, highly-financed campaigns —
and its woeful lack of doctrinal and dispensational teaching of the Word — to
neutralize the saints. Multitudes are attracted to these neo-evangelical
extravaganzas, at which the participants are for the most part performers, and
those who stand for the truth often feel very small as compared to the vast
unthinking majority. But let us never forget that God uses “things that are
not” to accomplish His work (See I Cor. 1: 26-29).
Let us, who know
and love the truth, then, determine by God’s grace that nothing shall make us
unfaithful to our glorious commission; that, whatever the cost, we shall
faithfully and boldly proclaim to others the unadulterated gospel of the grace
of God, “the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
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