In Acts 20, Paul warned about external and internal attacks against Christ’s church. Right from the start, Satan had a two-pronged attack. First, sow Christian-look-a-likes in Christ’s church as the tares among the wheat. Second, slowly blend in the errors of false teaching with the truth (syncretism) to distort the true Biblical doctrines taught by the gifted pastors and teachers.
Satan has always attacked those who wielded the sword of the Spirit as Bible teachers. Sadly, Church History records that Satan has been quite successful, especially in getting the church to blend in much false teaching with the true doctrines of God’s Word. As we saw last time, within the first two centuries after the Apostles, every known heresy still with us today was being taught in the early church.
Satan has just one old playbook.
And those old deceptions are what we need to stand against. As grace-energized believers of sound or healthy faith, our response to these dangers in any form should be the same. In our generation, we see Satan again mounting his attacks.
From GEM-21c – How has Christ’s Church Gotten so far from “Sound Faith” (080413AM)
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