Transcribed excerpt from an audio message by Bro Ron Knight...
Paul
wrote more books of the ‘New Testament’ than any other author. [By that,] God is magnifying his office.
Romans
11:13
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Let’s
look at the first time Saul of Tarsus is called Paul:
Acts 13:9
Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,)
filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
Do
you know what the name Paul means? “Little,
small and weak.” God gave him that name
because he went from this exalted leader in the Jewish religious system (Saul
was named after the powerful king of Israel) to a little, small, weak
insignificant man. Now it doesn’t mean
that his ministry was insignificant (it was mighty!) but he was just the
vessel.
That’s
us. There will always be just a small
group of believers; it is called a remnant.
Why? Because most people think
there has to be a big religious show; a big building; a lot of people who are
blessed and highly favored; health, wealth and prosperity. But that’s not what God is into today.
In
the kingdom program in the future, the nation of Israel will be healthy,
wealthy and wise. But that is not what
God is doing today. God is looking for
the weak things of this world.
1
Corinthians 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty;
He
is looking for the small, insignificant things in the eyes of the world. That’s how God gets the glory, through the
power of his word.
2 Corinthians
4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that
the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Hopefully this helps!
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