You see, the Remnant and
Overcomers have as their function to be God's vantage
ground in a day of widespread spiritual declension and
failure, to be vantage points, that upon which God can
act and say. Here is my thought positively expressed;
here is the thing that I am after! 'That is the
function of Overcomers to be to God like that. Here
is the thing (God is saying); look at
this..... look at Christ and His own as God wills them to
be and you have what I am after, what My mind is!' The
Remnant is for that: God's vantage ground in a day of
declension to show the thing to others.
God's thought concerning
His Church is that it should be gathered out of the
nations, slowly but surely formed into a bride worthy of
giving to His Son as a gift, without spot or blemish or
any such thing - given to Christ as His bride to be for
Him the instrument, the agency, of filling and fulfilling
the coming Kingdom throughout the ages. That is God's
thought about the Church. Can we say that that is being
realized in any commensurate way? No, but God holds to
His thought and He seeks an inner company whom we are
calling a Remnant or an Overcomer Company to stand for
Him in this service, to be a link between Him and His
full thought in His people, and to be that instrument for
the realization of His full thought, to serve Him, to see
His face. What is that? To be to His Son the agency of
filling the Kingdom and fulfilling the Kingdom in the
days to come. That is tremendous service. It is unto that
that the Overcomers are called.
If you want to be in the
work of the Lord, if you want to be the Lord's servants,
it is not given to a special class called ministers and
missionaries. It is to a whole company, to every one who
overcomes. ''He that overcometh, I will give to him to
sit down with Me in My throne'' (Rev. 3:21); ''...will I
give to eat of the tree of life" (Rev. 2:7). These
are all things symbolic of that full thought of God
concerning His Church, gathered up and expressed firstly
in Overcomers.
An extract from "Overcomer Testimony" Chapter 2. First published in "A Witness and A Testimony" magazine, Nov-Dec 1945, Vol 23-6.