Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Nothing much has changed.
People, being as they are, there were those who had accepted Christ as Savior but then began teaching things the apostles didn’t. They were teaching that except the Gentiles get circumcised, they could not be saved. This created what the Bible says was “no small dissension.”
Our text tells us that they were not commanded to teach the things they taught. That didn’t stop them though. We learn through the epistles of Paul that they never did stop. All that could be done was to use the Word of God, have reputable witnesses to the truth, and persist in preaching and teaching the right way.
Paul was not hesitant to confront their error. He just never made them the focus of his work. Jude did get “in their face,” but even he ended on a positive message.
Judaizers exist even today. But we have many others who also preach and teach things they were not commanded. Stephen Anderson and his followers, I believe, fall into this camp. They make themselves out to be independent Baptists but they preach and teach things contrary to what Baptists are known to preach. We can’t stop them. But we can warn against them, and we can preach the Bible with purity. We won’t prevent everyone from following their false doctrines, but we can lead some into what we believe are the true doctrines of the Word of God.
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Dissension in Doctrine: Staying True
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