Title: Remnant / Romans 9:27-29
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Remnant / Romans 9:27-29
If we look at history, it is more of a dreamed and conscious creative minority than by the majority.
You can find the things that have been developed by the people and have been saved from the crisis. In Judges, the Israelites
By doing this evil, God placed Midian into the hands of Midian for 7 years. After that, he set up Judge Gideon and
Then, God told Gideon to return 22,000 of the 32,000 men to their home.
he said mine Of the remaining 10,000 people, I got down on my knees and licked the water with my hands without drinking.
He told him to take only 300 soldiers out and fight. Gideon had 300 elite troops.
dragged him out and won the war.
Even in our day today, God is looking for a minority like the 300 Gideon army rather than the majority of the chaos.
there is Armed with the Word and the Holy Spirit, you can go out and fight with confidence and courage in faith.
The creative minority God is still looking for among us today.
If you look at Romans 9:27 and below and Romans 11:5 that we read today, <remnant>, remnant
The word is recorded.
Romans 9:27 is a quote from Isaiah 6. The great prophet Isaiah is God
When King Uzziah, who had been relying on him and giving him strength, dies, he faces a great crisis. everything
I fell into a sense of disappointment. However, these human crises and frustrations
It is a new opportunity to open your eyes and open the door to your heart. He went into the temple and prayed and said
While meditating on God, you experience the presence of God, realize your sins, and confess. then
Hearing the Lord's call, "Who will go for this people?", he said, "Here I am.
Send me.>
In response to his response, God reveals the fact that the Israelites will be captured and destroyed in the future.
However, he prophesied that the <remnants> would form the people of God again. this prophecy
By quoting Paul, even today, only these <remnants> will be saved, and through these
It shows the realization of God's great providence and will.
Romans 11 is a quotation from 1 Kings 19. The prophet Elijah said that Israel and Ahab
When Jezebel accused him of completely falling in worship of Baal, God still spoke to Baal.
He said there were 7,000 people who did not kneel. Quoting these words, Paul is still in the present by grace
It explains that there is a <remnant> who is chosen.
1) <Reima> is a minority.
At the time of Elijah, there were 7,000 devout believers who did not bow their knees to Baal.
They were very few compared to the people of Israel. And the precious people of Israel are only tens of thousands.
didn't Compared to King David's heyday when he counted 1.3 million men, there are only a few
Well, they were In any age, the group that was saved was not the Majority, but the Minority.
Jesus said, “Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction.
For there are many who enter, and the gate is narrow and the way is narrow, which leads to life, and few find it."
said The way to salvation is narrow and there are only a few who will be saved. Jesus saves the world
When you preach the gospel, you first call the few, and then you preach to the many through the few.
He chose the law.
He overcame the temptation that if he bowed down to Satan only once, he would give the world to him at once, and at the Sea of Galilee,
From the land of Judea and Samaria, he called his disciples one by one. Not only that, the Lord is one through miracles
He did not choose the way to build the kingdom of God, but the way of the cross. to each person
He chose the path of preaching the gospel.
Even from a historical point of view, when the church is in crisis and its life is shaken, the few who are confident are united.
There are many examples of women who rescued the crisis. Luther's servant with the bonfire of truth in the dark ages of the Middle Ages
This was the case with the Reformation, the reform movement of Calvin and John Knox, and the revival movement of Wessler in the 18th century.
It was. A few Christians in Oxford, when England was unspeakably corrupt and corrupt.
A spiritual awakening that turns England upside down as young people gather together to pray and meditate on the Word
He ignited the movement and revival, and carried out a purification movement that renewed the world.
For the remnant, even if everyone walks on the highway, this is the way that is pleasing to God, and the truth and life
If it is a path, it means a life that you can risk your life to walk.
2) <Leima> is the victor over tribulation.
The <Leimas> of Elijah's time were saints who endured underground to escape Jezebel's terrible persecution.
All. If you go to Turkey, Christians will go underground to escape persecution and persecution and build a huge underground city.
You can see that it has been preserved as it was. They only have faith in God
They gave up all their worldly wealth and glory. They were willing to live a life of martyrdom
He lived a simple community life where he shared everything. But they were happy and
He had no worries and rejoiced and rejoiced while looking at the hope of the kingdom of God. Rather, inner wealth
enjoyed yo
In Revelation 7:14, the crowds who were saved before the throne of God and clothed in white are called “great tribulation”.
those who come out of In Revelation chapters 7 and 14, the number of those who are saved is 144,000.
come. To the Hebrews, numbers had a symbolic meaning. For example, 3 is God's number.
High, 4 is the number of land pointing to the north, south, east, west, 6 is the number of humans, and 7 is the perfect number by adding 3 and 4
to be. And 12 is a number multiplied by 3 and 4 to represent a perfect number. 144,000 is 12,000 multiplied by 12
it comes from numbers. In other words, the remnant who overcame all the tribulation of the world and overcome through faith
to represent them
3) The salvation of <Reima> still belongs to the future.
The remnant of Elijah’s time (Leima) and the remnant of the return period (Leima) are those who have been saved and have overcome.
It is not only a symbol of God, but also a shadow of the saints who will be saved in the future kingdom
All. In other words, the ultimate salvation of the saints still belongs to the future. Past history is a prediction of the future
do. When we study history, we do not simply learn about past events; we learn from it.
It is about discovering the grand principle of history that connects the past with the present and the future.
And from that principle, we want to gain wisdom to deal with the future. We are Elijah's
In <Leima> or <Reima> of the Return Period, the qualifications of <Leima> who will enter the kingdom of God in the future are made clear.
We need to understand it and put it into practice in our daily life.