And the day that cometh, it burneth like a furnace—and the Lord will leave the wicked neither root nor branch (Malachi 4:1).
We must understand that God will complete His program in two directions: He is bringing judgment upon an age that has made a sham (something fake) of Christianity and He is also bringing a Remnant forth in which He is fulfilling all of the promises in a glory that even exceeds the early church.
We have faith in it because we have seen it coming forth for several years. The Remnant has been approaching more and more into the patterns of the New Testament church and its power; and the apostates are getting farther away from it.
Sometimes people call themselves Christians, but you don’t know what they believe—they are believing less and less until they don’t even believe the Bible to be the Word of God.
It is the greatest hypocrisy for a minister to stand behind a pulpit, take a living from the people, and have nothing to give them, nothing for them to believe in.
None of us know what our submission will mean, and the most deadly thing that you can do is to try to reason it out until you have defined what your submission will be.
It is better to consider the Lordship of Christ over us and our submission to the order that He is bringing forth.
One submits to an apostle, another submits to an elder, everyone has their own extent of submission. I have mine, and you have yours, as we come into this. One way I can describe the submission that God wants is to compare it to some of the car salesmen. They say, “Now, we don’t have time to figure out all of these figures just exactly, but if you’ll just sign down here, we’ll go ahead and type them in later, and when you get the car you can get the contract.” When you return you find that it’s been changed quite a bit from what you expected. The Lord is like that; He won’t tell you what it will cost, but He will say, “Sign here, son—an unconditional ‘yes’—just say ‘yes,’ and I will let you know the details later.” That’s the way we go ahead. It eliminates confusion that way. Trust in the Lord with all thy Heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5, 6.