The Remnant

The Remnant

The remnant, at any time, will be found to consist of those believers who feel and own the common failure and ruin of Christendom, and count on Yehovah and hold fast to His word!

These are the characteristic signs of the remnant in every age, who acknowledge the failure but realize that Yehovah is faithful, and His mercy is everlasting.

However Christendom has failed, it is the privilege of every individual believer to enjoy as full and precious fellowship with Yehovah, and follow a true path of discipleship as bond-servants of the lord Jesus.

Divine grace will always meet, as it ever does, those who truly confess their failure and weakness; who realize that without the indwelling presence of the Spirit of God they are helpless to fulfill His plan and purpose for them in their individual lives.

Notice what Yehovah says to King Josiah: … because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before me when you heard my words toward this place, and against the inhabitants you humbled yourself before me, and did rend your clothes, and weep before me; I even I have heard you, says Yehovah – 2 Chronicles 34:26-27.

A contrite heart and weeping eyes are the results of the word of God acting on the heart and conscience, which leads to a deep personal devotion to God in total commitment to carrying out His will. This will automatically cause us to not give in to the condition of the things around us in order that we can live above them and pass through as witnesses proclaiming the message of the good news of the Kingdom of God, the Kingship of God, which was the main message of His son Jesus and his disciples.

The believing remnant knows that Christendom is a hopeless wreck, and that any human attempt to restore it is a delusion. We can with resolve go forward holding fast to the message that Jesus and the apostles preached and wrote about, the Kingdom, Kingship of God. The greater the ruin, the greater the riches of God's grace, the deeper the gloom, the brighter the flashes of individual faith.

May the Spirit of God work mightily in the hearts of all His people, healing, restoring, reviving, and maintaining a faithful called-out Assembly who look forward to the coming of the lord Jesus to take his place on the throne of David at Zion as the Messiah of Israel and Lord of all the nations that survive the Wrath of God.

There is always a remnant marked off from the mass of corrupt profession, and characterized by a genuine attachment to God's anointed one, to his interests, and to every member of his body, the called-out Assembly.

No human language can set forth the importance of having a divinely settled authority for our narrow path. All we want is to be absolutely and completely governed by it, to have it hidden in our hearts acting on our consciences, forming our character, governing our conduct in everything. To give the word of God this place is one of the marked characteristics of the believing remnant.

Christendom has utterly failed; its corporate unity is hopelessly gone, just as we see in the history of Israel. But the believing remnant is made up of all those who truly feel and own the ruin that has taken place, who are governed by the word of God and led by His Spirit, in separation from all that is contrary to that word, to wait for the lord Jesus coming.

There is no pretension of the remnant to set themselves up to be anything, no attempt to ignore the sad and solemn fact of the utter ruin of the professing Churches. It is a believing remnant in the midst of Christendom's ruins, true to the only true God and true to that God's anointed one, true to his word, and knit together in brotherly love, love in the Spirit, love to all who love our lord Jesus God's anointed in sincerity and truth, seeking to show him forth in their lives and actions.

Again I mention that the greater the ruin the richer the grace of God, the deeper the gloom, the brighter the outshining of individual faith. May all those who make up the believing remnant hold fast to the end of their lives, or this age, the words of the lord Jesus recognizing him as their lord and master.