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it, actually in your life? How much does YOUR PART in God's Work
dominate your thinking -- your daily activities -- your attitude?
Are you deeply concerned? Are you praying for this great Work the
living Christ is carrying through you and me and our other
Co-Workers?
Let me explain something you may not have realized!
Jesus Christ said in Matthew 24, speaking of the very CLIMAX
of world trouble into which the world is starting to plunge right
now: "...And except those days should be shortened, there should
no flesh be saved (alive): BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE THOSE DAYS
SHALL BE SHORTENED." (Verse 22).
Do you UNDERSTAND that? Not very many do. Unless you
understand some other scriptures that bear on it, you will not get
the FULL IMPACT of what Jesus meant. So listen! Read and
UNDERSTAND! Nothing is so interesting or important just now. For
we are rapidly approaching the time! Back in the time of the Flood
there was only ONE MAN on earth who was obedient and righteous
before God -- and that was Noah. In Genesis 6, it is recorded:
"And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth,... But
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Eternal. ...Noah was a just
man and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God,...
Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him so did he.
And the Eternal said unto Noah come thou and all thy house into the
Ark; for THEE have I seen righteous before me in this generation."
(Verse 9 through 7:1).
ONLY ONE MAN was obedient to God. Only that ONE man -- and
his family -- was saved alive!
Now see what happened at Sodom. The Eternal with two angels
appeared to Abraham in front of his tent. The Eternal revealed to
Abraham that he was going to destroy Sodom because of its terrible,
perverted, wickedness. But Abraham knew that his nephew, Lot, was
there. He became frightened for Lot's safety.
"And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city... And the Eternal said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city then I will spare all the place for their
sakes."
Now, at the time of the Flood there was NONE righteous before
God but Noah. Had there been, God would have spared ALL people on
earth for the sake of the few who were obedient to Him. He offered
to spare all of Sodom if there were only fifty righteous.
But Abraham became apprehensive. What if there lacked FIVE of
the fifty righteous? Would God destroy the city for the lack of a
mere five? NO, said the Eternal -- if there are forty-five
righteous, the whole city will be spared. Then Abraham came down
to forty, then thirty, and finally all the way down to TEN. And
God said that if there were even only TEN righteous He would spare
the whole city for their sake.