They certainly did know their Bible history but they seem to have forgotten its implications. ‘How that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
I remember when I was a young Christian there was somebody came to preach at the church, and this was a church that was in fellowship with the Baptist Union but it was an evangelical church. I was just a youngster. This man was clearly preaching things that were utterly wrong and in effect denying the Scripture. Although there was a little huddle of people after the service, younger people, saying, ‘Well, he denied the Scripture, he denied the inspiration and the sufficiency of Scripture’, there was a lady there valiantly standing up for this preacher and she was saying, ‘Oh but he could not have done because he is an approved minister of our beloved denomination, so he must be sound.’ Well, he was not sound; he was miles off track. And yes, he was an approved minister of that denomination but that is no guarantee of soundness. This is the way people sometimes reason: ‘He has been to one of our colleges. How could he be wrong?’ None may reason from the fact that the Lord has begun to work in their lives that it is safe for them to sin.