The Little Foxes That Spoil The Vines
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Many
Christian people entertain the notion that apostasy from the truth begins with
a denial of one or more of the fundamentals of the faith, such as the
infallibility of the Bible, the deity of Christ, or the efficacy of His
redemptive work. The moral aspect of apostasy, they suppose, comes about in
much the same way.
This view is not wholly
correct, for apostasy generally begins, not with holding, but with condoning
spiritual or moral error.
Eve fell into sin, not by
denying what God had said but by listening to Satan.
In the Song of Solomon,
the Shulamite damsel, doubtless quoting the words of Solomon, her beloved
bridegroom, notes that the vineyards are in full blossom. Soon the grapes will
be ripe for the marriage feast. But a danger threatens the harvest: “the foxes,
the little foxes that spoil the vines.” These must without fail be “taken,” or
caught (Song of Solomon 2:15).
What a striking lesson we
have here! How often God’s people have stood at the threshold of great
blessing, the refreshing odor of an abundant spiritual harvest in the air when,
alas, all has been lost — not through a frontal attack by the adversary, but by
those wily little foxes that had been permitted to spoil the vines. Some
doctrine or practice clearly unscriptural and subversive of spiritual blessing,
had been condoned when, like the little foxes of Solomon’s song, they should
have been caught and disposed of.
How God Saves Men
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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