September 12
Isaiah 10:1-11:16 | PS 56:1-13 | Prov 23:6-8 | 2 Cor 12:11-21
You have most likely heard: “Everyone agrees with a woman’s right to choose”, “Everyone has the right to love whoever they want, no matter what gender they are”, “Everyone is getting the vaccine”….Everyone, everyone, everyone! The question is, Do you really want to be “everyone”? Throughout Scripture and even a cursory glance at world history from its beginnings to the present time will illustrate that “everyone” is usually wrong. It is always a remnant that follow God.
We read God’s word of the surviving remnant after the destruction in Isaiah 6:13, “But yet a tenth will be in it, And will return and be for consuming, As a terebinth tree or as an oak, Whose stump remains when it is cut down. So the holy seed shall be its stump.” Again we read in 10:20-22, “And it shall come to pass in that day That the remnant of Israel, And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, Will never again depend on him who defeated them, But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God. For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, A remnant of them will return; The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.” Realize that term, “Mighty God” was just used in reference to the future Messiah who would become man, born as a child in Isaiah 9:6, “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Yes, the remnant will follow the Lord, Jesus Christ. This does not mean following Him because you were born in a certain family or raised in a certain denomination following certain traditions or rituals. It means that you join the remnant when you stop trying to be part of “everyone” and start following Him. It means that a decision must be made, not issue by issue, but the choice is Jesus or the philosophy of the world. When we follow Jesus, understand what this means from Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” The implications of your choice could not be more serious, as we read from the lips of Jesus, in Matthew 7:13-14, ““Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Messages from Pastor Lloyd Pulley: