SOUND TEACHING

SOUND TEACHING

As we read that “the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching”, it is of the utmost importance that we should be assured of what sound teaching is. The word ‘sound’ is also translated ‘wholesome’; it simply means healthy. The warning indicates that the truth would not be absolutely rejected, but that only a measure of it would be acceptable, and that measure would not be sound or healthy, contributing to health, life in full effect.

Any limitation of the truth must therefore be guarded against.

When we review the state of the church as a whole, we must be aware that the names of the great truths are accepted; but when we come to analyse the meaning attached to the names, they are widely apart from the teaching of Scripture. It is clear that a believer would not accept what is called the gospel and the church in Romanism. Others would not be satisfied with the teaching under those names in the Reformed Church. And it is possible that those sufficiently enlightened to reject the teaching of all the teachers in the above order of things, might themselves be very deficient as to the scriptural teaching concerning the Holy Spirit, the gospel and the church, the three subjects I propose to examine in this paper.