Previous article in this series: September 1, 2012, p. 461. Polemics will bring results. Both proper and improper, biblical and unspiritual, polemics, by the power of God, will have effects. Those who have lived in the church very long have witnessed this. Godly polemics will have good (that’s not to say “pleasant”) effect, because polemics is the use of God’s Word to battle error, and God’s Word never returns to Him “void” (Is. 55:11). Unbiblical polemics will also have consequences. The effect, according to the sovereign judgments of God, will be damage to the very cause the battle purports to protect—the...