Nuggets from Seeking and Finding God—Faith Must Be Founded on Truth

Christ warned that some would seem to receive the gospel with great enthusiasm only to become entangled in the world, discouraged, and disillusioned. They would eventually turn back from following Him. Many maintain a façade of Christianity without inward reality, deceiving perhaps even themselves. Never fully convinced in their hearts, they are unwilling nevertheless to admit their unbelief. “Examine yourselves,” Paul warned, “whether ye be in the faith” (2 Corinthians:13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
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Of those who are genuine, all too few are able to give a reason for the hope that is in them (1 Peter:3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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One of today’s greatest needs is for solid Bible teaching that produces disciples who are able to “earnestly contend for the faith once [for all] delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). That faith for which we must contend was delivered by Christ to the original twelve disciples, who were then to teach those whom they evangelized “to observe all things” that Christ had commanded them.

Through succeeding generations (beginning with the original disciples and those whom they brought to faith in Christ and disciple) of those who have been won to Him and who have in turn, in obedience to their Lord, discipled others, this unbroken chain of command comes down to us in our time. Not sme special priest or clergy class, but each Christian today, like those who have passed before, is a successor to the apostles. Think of what that means!