Words of Grace – July 28, 2016

It was against the law, according to Deuteronomy 19:14 to remove the neighbor’s landmark which had been set up “of old time.”  These old landmarks were stones marking the boundary lines of the property of the owner.

In Proverbs 22:28 this command is repeated.  “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set,” and again in Proverbs 23:10:  “Remove not the old landmark.”

There is a movement today among those who call themselves modernists to remove some of the old landmarks of the Christian faith.  Rather than contending “for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3), they go about to change it.

“If I see aright,” A.W. Tozer observed, “the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament.  It is rather a new, bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity.”

Tozer then went on to explain the difference between the old cross and the new cross.  He wrote:

“The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them.  The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses.  The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.”