Derek Prince - What Do We Have to Do to Stay Saved?
Now I want to turn the tables on you. I want to ask you the final question. And I won't embarrass you, I really want a response. I'm not trying to draw you out; I just want to know as a matter of interest. The second question was will the church be a remnant in the same way as Israel that gets saved will be a remnant?
Now, think it over for a moment and tell me what would be your answer. And you've only got two possibilities, yes or no. All right? Will the church be a remnant? Think it over for a moment and if you say yes it will be remnant, it won't be the whole group of people that's called the church today, I want you to stand up. That's your answer. The church will be a remnant.
Well, turn around, you people at the front, and look. I don't want to embarrass the people that are not standing by no means. But that impresses me. I'd have to say I agree with you. You may sit down, thank you. I believe that's how it will be.
Let me read in closing just a few verses from Matthew 24. This is the final Scripture that we'll leave with. Matthew 24, beginning at verse 9 and reading through verse 14. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name. Who is you? You is us, that's right.
And at that time [verse 10] many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. Many who? Christians, that's right.
Verse 11: And many false prophets will arise, and will mislead many.
Verse 12: Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold. And the word for love there is agape, normally used of Christians. But the one who has endured to the end, it is he who shall be saved.
So you're saved now, but to stay saved you've got to endure to the end. Is that right? And in the middle of all that we get verse 14: This gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations.
So the greater the pressure against us, the greater the urgency to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. God bless you, thank you for being so cooperative, attentive and altogether wonderful. Anybody who wants all the questions, here they are.