A Call To The Remnant

A Ms Barnett argued, at the University of Virginia in 2008, that “Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw clearly what the cost of compromise is, what the cost of complicity is. He understood something about failure, about what happens to the human soul when backbone dissolves, about what happens to the Christian church when it makes one compromise after the other. He understood that when the church does that-when it continually redefines its message, its interpretation of scripture, its very theology, so that it stays out of trouble-that these are not the sins of omission but of commission, of complicity. And that is why he was such an uncomfortable figure for protestant leaders in the early post-war period.”

Bonhoeffer knew all this because he watched the Lutheran church compromise with the world in which they lived, and their world just happened to be the Nazi world. I would argue that in our day, Christendom, has made just as many if not more compromises with the world. Ours is not the world of the Nazis, but ours is an equally godless world. Hundreds of millions of babies slaughtered around the world, in their mothers womb, as sacrifice at the shrine of feminism, and we are, for the most part, silent. Our children are daily indoctrinated with vile doctrines, perhaps even being groomed, and Christendom is, for the most part, silent.

Can I suggest that in this next generation, our scriptures and theology will be further compromised. We shall be told that homosexuality is not really condemned in the scriptures. We shall be told that there are actually many ways to heaven and that each religion is merely a different expression of God. As time passes, more and more saints shall have no choice but to leave their “denomination,” or “church,” because of such compromise. And the saint that raises his or her voice against such things will be tolerated less and less in a wicked and adulterous generation. The remnant saint of the last days will simply be called to stand. Stand upon the truth, stand upon the word, stand against an ever increasing tide of wickedness.

The Confessing Church in Germany was founded in 1934 as a reaction to the “German Christians,” who were advocates of Nazi policies, especially the “euthanizing,” (murder) of mentally handicapped people. Before the Nazi gas chambers, 400,000 mentally handicapped people were taken to their local clinics or hospitals and were there murdered. The Confessing church did something very bold, they separated from mainline denominations in reaction to their compromise with the world. We need such a separation in our day. Our days are no less wicked. T.A.Sparks writes this …………………….

The Lord must have something against which hell is impotent and by which He demonstrates to the universe that strength of His might which causes to stand and withstand, and having done all to stand. If one were asked what the last issue for the Church in this age is, I would say that it stands, and that is saying a tremendous thing. Oh, you say, that is surely limiting things, are you not expecting much more than that? Progress, advance, sweeping movements? The Church will have all its work cut out in the end to stand, but its standing will be its victory. Just to be able, through testing, trial, when everything is blowing round you like a blizzard; when everything is dark, mysterious, and even God seems far away and unreal, and faith is tested and you are being assailed on the right hand and on the left, and there is every reason outwardly for your moving, giving up, falling down, surrendering, lowering your standard, just to stand and not be moved in your faith is the greatest possible victory….

We are passing through deep experiences, the enemy is doing it and the Lord is not preventing him, but we are coming to a fuller knowledge of the power of our God and a deeper rooting beyond all previous shakeableness. And the Lord is seeking to have a people who cannot be shaken, against whom hell with all its demonstration of arrogance and pride, is impotent. “And the remnant… shall again take root downward.” That is what the Lord needs.