Marks of a remnant
Marks of a remnant
(God is trying to get at that thing in you)
David Wilkerson
Cyrus king of Persia
he invited all the Jews that had been
assimilated in Babylon for 70 years
to go on up to the land
(2Chronicles 36:22-23)
But the majority of the Jews
were adapted to the way of Babylonians.
They went to the idolatry
and they sought after the easy life in Babylon.
Cyrus declared,
“Who is there among you? Let him go up.”
(2Chronicles 26:23)
Every generation has had the spirit of God
stirring up a remnant.
God has always had a remnant
from cover to cover in this Book.
When I talk about the remnant,
I talk about a people wholly devoted to Jesus Christ,
who are walking in His righteousness,
who have been detached from this world,
wholly given to the heart of Christ.
And the Lord always had a remnant.
And they entered the land.
Juda is in ruin.
There’s a famine.
The temple, once glorious temple
is level to the ground.
The wall’s gone.
The well’s dry.
Total ruin.
Can you just hear some of them say,
“We have been delivered from Babylon for this?”
There comes a time that you get your eyes off the ruin
and get your eyes on what God’s eternal purpose’s.
There comes a time
you can’t just preach about the ruins.
You have to get out of that
quit talking about it
quit thinking about it
and get into the heart of Jesus
about what He wants to do
in building a new body.
A true church of Jesus Christ
They looked around and they began to dig
and start to come back to the house of God
and think of God’s purpose for them.
First thing they do is to build an altar
in the midst of all the rubbish and the ruins.
Remember.
The land is full of violence,
robbers and thieves hiding everywhere
There’re arms and threats on all sides.
And they set the altar upon his bases;
for fear was uno them because of the people of those countries:
and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord,
even burnt offerings morning and evening.
Ezra 3:3
There was something happened.
These people had been busy doing their own thing.
God says,
“No. I want to do some cooperatively.
I want to do something with a body.”
He put it in their heart,
all of them to return to the city of Jerusalem
and they came from all of their settlements
and they gathered here in Jerusalem now.
And they set up the altar for fear was upon them
because of the people.
“Drop everything
and get to the altar
with the tides of Holy Ghost.
Drop everything and get to the altar.”
The altar represents the place
where the Lord’s presence is manifested.
It’s the assembly of true believers
who cooperatively say,
“I give my body to You as a living sacrifice.”
Beloved, God can not reach His eternal purpose
if everybody’s going out doing his own thing
and not seeing the connection one with another.
Those who has the same mind of Christ.
He’s trying to bring a people together
who think the same way in Christ
who speak the same language
and it’s all Christ’s.
He’s building a people on that.
He couldn’t do anything,
it will continue to delay in ruin
until they all came
and there was a cry in their heart.
“Drop everything, get to the altar.”
God’s not looking at buildings,
physical buildings.
He’s looking at these bodies of ours.
But when we get together
a true people who have a heart set on the Lord.
They’re tired of hype entertainment and foolishness.
They went to God to cleanse them and sanctify them.
They believe God’s word that it is possible
to live an overcoming life in these last days
in the midst of all the ruin.
But it will never happen until
there’s attachment to this altar,
until willingness to build this altar.
The surest evidence of being a part
of the holy remnant in this last days
is this urgency to drop everything
and go with God’s people to the altar.
This is the whole body.
This is the altar.
This is where the Lord’s presence is manifested.
He manifests through holy people,
separated people.
He manifests His presence.
What is the body of Jesus?
It’s you.
It’s me.
We are the body of Christ
and He is the head.
We are the visible body of Christ on this earth.
The only Christ anybody gonna see
is what there is in you and me.
It’s the reflection of Jesus in us.
We reflect His glory.
Another distinguishing mark of the holy remnant
is a growing desire to worship,
to truly worship.
And it’s that growing desire of people
to just sit in His presence and worship
That’s the distinguishing mark
of the remnant people.
They have this desire to worship .
They don’t want to come and just be spoon-fed.
They don’t want to be entertained.
They want to worship.
They love the Word.
They tremble out of it.
They want to lift their hands
and their hearts.
They truly are worshippers.
The remnant are worshippers.
True worshippers.