The Victory of Christ's War-Church | Sam Waldron | The Weekly Discourse

Throughout most of the 20th century evangelical Christians have been dominated by pessimistic views of the future of the church. The most popular study Bible through most of that century taught Christians to look forward to the apostasy of the professing church. That study Bible was born of a movement that taught Bible-believing Christians to leave their churches, gather in small fellowships, and wait for the Lord’s return. It was an axiom of its system of thought that every Dispensation ends in failure—including the Dispensation of the Church. The direct tendency of such views was to kill all enterprising zeal for the church. Why polish brass on a sinking ship? 

Such views are nothing less than astonishing in light of the Lord’s teaching. Perhaps the most well-known and certainly the most foundational prediction concerning His church which the Lord ever uttered was that found in Matthew 1617-18. It shows how starkly and amazingly our Lord’s teaching contrasts with such views. It is Christ’s Prediction of the Victory of His War-Church.

This lecture was taken from a class taught by Dr. Sam Waldron called Questions in Eschatology. The class is available to students and auditors at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary.

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