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  A BELIEVING REMNANT
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: A.W. Tozer emphasizes the importance of being a prepared and
holy remnant of believers awaiting Christ's return.

Topics: "Preparation for Christ's Return", "The Believing Remnant"
Scripture References: Matthew 24:40, Romans 11:5

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes the concept of a believing remnant, suggesting
that God is working to prepare His true followers, distinct from the
larger crowd of nominal believers. He questions whether the delay in
Christ's return is due to God's desire to ready His Bride, rather than a
mass ascension of all believers. Tozer critiques the complacency of many
Christians who believe that grace allows them to live without
accountability. He asserts that God does not have a middle ground for
purification, highlighting the importance of being prepared and living
righteously in anticipation of Christ's return.

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What is God trying to do with His believing people?-the Bible calls us a
remnant according to grace, believers taken out of the great, teeming
swarm of so-called religious people in today's world. I am inclined to
join others in wondering if the Lord is postponing His coming because He
is trying to get His Bride ready? For years it has been the popular idea
in evangelical Christianity that the whole body of believers in Christ
would rise like a flock of frightened birds when the Lord comes. But
A.B. Simpson and William MacArthur and others in the past generation
said, "Oh no!

The Lord will take with Him those who are prepared and ready for His
coming!" I do not presume to give an answer satisfying to everyone in
our churches.

But I know that many Christians are too smug about this, saying in
effect: "I am converted to Christ through grace, so I can live as I
please!" Of some things we cannot be dogmatic; but we know this for
sure-God has no halfway house between heaven and hell where He takes us
to fumigate us!

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/a-believing-remnant/
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