As you see that day approach! « A Call To The Remnant

We encourage each other, it’s a lovely factor, a sacred rhythm within the Physique of Christ. It has been the best privilege of my life to minister to the few, these treasured souls who as soon as believed they have been totally alone. They’re those who, at nice private value, have come out from the organized church, misunderstood, maligned, and infrequently mistrusted. They’ve been accused of elitism, of conceitedness, even of falling away, when in reality, they may now not endure the burden of a system that quenched the very Spirit they have been referred to as to stroll in.

These are they who started within the Spirit, and, like Paul’s plea to the Galatians, refused to be perfected by the flesh (Galatians 3:3). They yearn to listen to not the rebuke, “O silly Galatians,” however moderately the commendation, “Nicely finished, good and devoted servant” (Matthew 25:21). They search to collect the place the Spirit is free to maneuver, the place the saints could actually fulfill the exhortation of 1 Corinthians 14, that each one could communicate, all could be taught, all could also be inspired, and the presents be exercised for the edification of the entire.

They lengthy to stroll merely, with humility earlier than God and sincerity earlier than males (Micah 6:8). Of their gatherings, Christ alone is exalted, Jesus, the Lord of glory, lifted up as the one Head, the one Shepherd, the one One who’s preeminent (Colossians 1:18). There aren’t any stars, no levels, solely saints, damaged and burning, needing nothing however Him.

But to stroll this fashion, there was a name, an unrelenting summons from the Lord, “Come out from amongst them and be separate, says the Lord. Don’t contact what’s unclean, and I’ll obtain you” (2 Corinthians 6:17). That is the remnant highway, walked not in bitterness however in obedience, not in delight however in pursuit of the dwelling God, Christ in us, the hope of glory.