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how the Lord Himself argued with Elijah. Elijah said, "Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars." Both of these state ments were true. Then Elijah said, "I am left alone, and they seek my life." The Lord came to Elijah and seemed to say, "Elijah, listen to Me. You are not alone. I have reserved seven thou sand men. Elijah, what are you talking about?" In chapter ten it appeared that, in a sense, Paul was against Israel. Now in chapter eleven he is in favor of Israel. In 11:5 Paul says that "at the present time also there is a remnant according to the selection of grace." Paul simply cannot be defeated. Paul was saying, "Not only were seven thousand men reserved by God in the time of Elijah, but at the present time, the time in which we are living, God still has a selection according to grace. Today also there is a remnant reserved." The principle is the same for our own time. Re gardless of how far Christianity has degraded, we believe that among the thousands and even millions of Christians there are a number, a remnant, that have been reserved by God.
I am not speaking proudly, but I consider myself as one whom the Lord has reserved. How do you feel about yourself? A number of times in the past years my thought was the same as