The Doctor applies Ephesians 6:15 to us and our world: Are your feet rooted down deep in the gospel? Are you prepared to stand unmoved? Have your feet been placed on the unmoving Rock that is Christ?:
Have you a definite position? Are you prepared to stand in it, and say, ‘I will never yield, I will never move from this?’ The moment you begin to compromise on this Word of God you will soon be slipping and sliding both in doctrine and in practice. Some people are constantly contradicting themselves; they praise the Protestant and the Nonconformist Fathers in the first half of their address or article; then criticize them in the second half. That is not ‘standing’; that is sliding. They do not know where they are, and no-one else knows.
As the Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:19, the Gospel of Christ is not yea and nay at one and the same time. That is true of politics, of ecclesiasticism, of ‘the world’; but it is not true of Christ.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Christian Soldier, pp. 276-277
- …and being firm-footed in the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:15, ISV).
