Baptist Perpetuity is proven from "the Pillar and Ground of the Truth"

[Alan Gross]

8.10 PILLAR AND GROUND

“These things write I to you,
hoping to come to you shortly:
but if I tarry long,
that you may know
how you ought to behave yourself
in the House of God,
which is the church
of the Living God,
the Pillar and Ground of the Truth”
[1 Timothy 3:15].

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Speaking of the LORD’S churches as an Organized Assembly,
as the context clearly shows,

Paul here calls THE LORD’S CHURCHES,

“the pillar and ground of the truth.”

That is, the church not only, as a Pillar or Column, Upholds the Truth,
but it is the Foundational Support of the Truth.

Here we have the explanation
for the wholesale loss of Bible Truth
by false churches and unattached Christians.

It has Pleased God that His churches
should be the Pillar and Ground of the Truth,
and so it has been through the centuries.