THE MAJORITY VERSUS THE MINORITY
II Samuel 20:1-2
"And there happened to be there a rebel whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet and said: 'We have no share with David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.' So every man of Israel deserted David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to the king."
It seems there will always be these two factions – those who are deserters and those who remain loyal. The one – the tribe of Judah – remained loyal to the king. The other tribes of Israel had just claimed David as their king (II Samuel 19:43), but they were not really committed to him. Even in the beginning of David's reign, only the tribe of Judah accepted him as king, and it took seven years before the rest of Israel became a part of his kingdom. But then they were in and out, sometimes serving the king and other times following voices of rebellion (Absalom and Sheba). It has been this way throughout the history of the Church. There has always been one group who go to church but are not really committed, and they follow the voices of rebellion that lead them to desert the Lord Jesus. But there is a minority group who remain loyal to the King regardless of what the majority does. It takes commitment to remain loyal to the Lord Jesus and His kingdom when the crowd is going the other way.
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: The majority rebels against the Lordship of Jesus; but there is a remnant minority that remains committed.
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Have a committed day. Love you.
II Samuel 20:1-2
"And there happened to be there a rebel whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. And he blew a trumpet and said: 'We have no share with David, nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel.' So every man of Israel deserted David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to the king."
It seems there will always be these two factions – those who are deserters and those who remain loyal. The one – the tribe of Judah – remained loyal to the king. The other tribes of Israel had just claimed David as their king (II Samuel 19:43), but they were not really committed to him. Even in the beginning of David's reign, only the tribe of Judah accepted him as king, and it took seven years before the rest of Israel became a part of his kingdom. But then they were in and out, sometimes serving the king and other times following voices of rebellion (Absalom and Sheba). It has been this way throughout the history of the Church. There has always been one group who go to church but are not really committed, and they follow the voices of rebellion that lead them to desert the Lord Jesus. But there is a minority group who remain loyal to the King regardless of what the majority does. It takes commitment to remain loyal to the Lord Jesus and His kingdom when the crowd is going the other way.
TODAY'S PRINCIPLE: The majority rebels against the Lordship of Jesus; but there is a remnant minority that remains committed.
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Have a committed day. Love you.
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