HE "nevertheless"
of our text points
us back to the pre
ceding verses in
which the apostasy
of certain members
of the church, par
ticularly Hymen
aeus and Philetus,
is referred to and
their false doctrines
denounced and
brought into sharp
-- contrast with the
'S enduring truth of
God. In the con
ceit of their own human wisdom they
have been striving to lay other founda
tions, forgetful of God's Word, that
"other foundation can no man lay than
that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."
And men have not ceased in their ef
forts to lay foundations of their own
construction. Hymenseus and Philetus
have left a numerous progeny in the
world, and to-day everywhere we find
false teachers seeking to "overthrow the
faith of some," and driving others who
have never come into the light of Gospel
truth farther and farther into the fatal
darkness of error. And with so much re
Ifgious confusion on every hand, so many
isms and cults, so many teachers, and
so many conflicting ideas and theories
and doctrines, it is so restful and re
freshing to know that "the foundation
of God standeth sure." There are false
teachers, there are false doctrines, but
"nevertheless" the foundation which
God has laid can never be shaken by the
effort of man. The Babelites could not
build to Heaven, and neither can the
modern Hymenaeuses or Philetuses.
