There is much religious breeding going on in America; and now, through its influence, American Christian breeding is taking place throughout the world. But the result is defilement of fruit. The Bible tells us we will know people by their fruits. “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit” (Matthew 7:17-18). This is a principle of fruit! A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit. This is the biblical commentary of men such as Billy Graham. The species will always produce another like itself. And yet mixing the seeds within the species or genus will defile the fruit and offspring. You cannot mix Jesus and a gospel “of another kind” (allos) similar to Jesus. The horse and the mule are like one another, but the chromosomes and the seed are not the same. Preachers have become so desirous of the evangelistic statistics that they tend to mix a little of another seed in the vineyard. …

In this chapter we draw aside to the burning bush truth of biblical separation . . .if a professing Christian does not believe in Scriptural separation, a great blindness will clearly be evident in his or her life. Biblical separation is not to be viewed as a blight or a so-called necessary evil that hinders the Christian from having “fun,” but instead it must be viewed as the guardian principle of the Christian life. We must never think of God’s Word and His commands as being unjust or unfair. Perhaps, when we were growing up (in our carnal, immature soul) we thought that certain sermons and strong passages of Scripture indicated that God was unjust or unfair in certain areas of life or that He was partial in His dealings. God may be candid, but He is not unjust or unfair. In fact, the word candid comes from the Latin word candidus which means “to be white or bleached.” This very word indicates that God, in being candid, is fair and open. Because a candid statement is an impartial statement, He is disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice. …

There is a musical mutation evident in the conservative, Fundamental churches today, and prayerful concern must be given to it. For we are now hearing, as we heard from Bill Gaither in the early 1970s as well as from the powerful innovator, Ralph Carmichael, that there is too much emphasis being placed upon the form of the music; and that we should not be concerned with it, but with the message. In five years, what will be the spiritual state of the church if this presupposition is followed? …

The light of the Gospel—what power it has to transform a sinner into a child of God! What ability it possesses to draw a man out of error and show him the truth! Yes, we would have never known the ways of God if His light had not come upon us! And now, His Word is “a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path.” That light will never lead us astray, for it, like its Author, has “no darkness at all.” Yet, is there a possibility that Satan could use light as a deceptive weapon to draw a Christian away from the true light? Could his deceptive light be so skillfully presented that if it were possible, “the very elect” would be deceived? …

Church history continues to become the most embarrassing of all the movements of history. In our twentieth century we are coming to a time of new definitions to the old words of the Christian Faith. We are still shocked by the Neo (New) concepts being promulgated by the electronic church and other contemporary popular presentations of so-called Christianity. We are urgently reminded of the words of the Lord Jesus: "when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8b). There will still be another new Bible to come out in 1981, and multitudes will continue to neglect humility and obedience before the old one. The true is never new! Men are in love with the new as they ever forsake the old landmarks that God has set up before us. …

In my heavy schedule of travel on preaching missions, I am amazed at a certain common attitude which I find among preachers. I am hearing more pastors tell me that they wish they did not have to go to their pulpits to deal with their church people. They wish they could perform their ministry in their study on a one-to-one basis of instruction from the Word of God. …

One of the evidences apostasy continues to permeate the world is found in the changes that have now taken control of man's thinking and understanding. The logic of absolutes is being exchanged for the "crazy," the "bizarre," and the "insane." In decades past such insanity was abhorred by society. For example, the killing spree of the Charles Manson clan was a rare incident that rocked our nation's conscience for weeks. Now the violence depicted in such criminally bizarre cases seems so common an event that only one- or two-days' news coverage is the norm before another notorious crime takes its place. …

In the scheme of creation, God's final work of natural creation was that of the woman. This unique creature of God was taken from within the man, his tender part, the bone and flesh of his body. When Adam saw this created entity, he immediately acknowledged that it was part of himself (Genesis 2:23). The Hebrew word for woman is ishshah; it is identified with the deeper word ish (the man). In contrast to "man," meaning "to be strong," ishshah means "to be soft," denoting that part of man's anatomy from whence she came. She was to give her life and existence to the man as a counterpart, to serve in helping the man. …

In our final article concerning the rise and fall of Christian Fundamentalism, we are drawn to a sobering work of God that will strongly affect the Christian world in the end time—yea, it will profoundly affect the future of Christian Fundamentalism. This work of God's great shaking of the earth is addressed in Hebrews 12:25-29:…

As the public view of the historic Christian Fundamentalist movement continues to deteriorate in our generation, we have observed in the previous articles several contributing factors to this decline. So many Fundamentalist ministers and their churches today cannot discern that they are caught in the powerful web of Neo-Evangelicalism partly because they have not discerned what historic Fundamentalism once was. …