Doctrinal New Testament Commentary by Bruce R. McConkie

Author:Bruce R. McConkie [McConkie, Bruce R. ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Scripture Reference
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2012-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Paul Predicts Apostasy and Cultism

Acts 20:28; 28. The Holy Ghost hath made you overseers] God calls his own ministers. All calls to the ministry should come by revelation. Unless and until God speaks, no man can represent the Lord in the ministry. (John 15:16; Fifth Article of Faith.)

Acts 20:28; Feed the church of God] Teach the doctrines of salvation; supply spiritual food; bear testimony of our Lord's divine Sonship—anything short of such a course is unworthy of a true minister who has been called by revelation. Only when the Church is fed the bread of life are its members kept in paths of righteousness. It is the spiritually illiterate who become cultists and who forsake the faith.

Acts 20:28; Purchased with his own blood] See Hebrews 10:1-18.

Acts 20:29-30; 29-30. Which is worse, persecution from without, which drives men from the truth, or heresy from within, which perverts and twists the truth until all saving power is drained from it?

Acts 20:29-30; Theretofore persecution had been Satan's tool to prevent the spread of the gospel, now he was beginning to use a new weapon—dissension from within, perversion of the truth, the formation of conflicting cults and sects within the so-called Christian fold. How well this second approach succeeded is everywhere apparent.

Acts 20:32; 32. Them which are sanctified] See 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8.

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