Well, this Remnant series is a game changer, and you might be wondering, why are you calling a series on the sermon on the Mount remnant? It's because the word remnant in the scriptures is symbolic for the people of God who remain in the minority. There's a remnant of Israel, wherever they go, who's staying faithful to God, even when the people of God are unfaithful to God.

So if you're a Christian, and you'll see this in the sermon today, you'll always be in the

minority. It'll never be a universal, popular thing to be a follower of Jesus until we are

in the kingdom of God living in heaven forever and ever. And that's where our eyes are fixed,

by the way. This is your weekly reminder that heaven is not a place where we float like clouds as angels, because we're not angels, we're not angels, we're human beings. You're going to have a life. You're going to have a place to live. You're going to have a purpose. Heaven is a real place, lit up by a real savior. And if you're in Christ, you're going to live there forever. And so our eyes are on there,

but until we're there, the people of God will always exist as a remnant in this world.

And so within the culture that we live in, we are definitely a minority because our culture

is championing lies, championing things that are of everything except the Holy Spirit.

But here's what we're noticing

too. You can also be in the remnant and exist within the people of God. And so the temptation for us

at our size and with seven years in together as a church, the temptation is to make this about

bringing in more people and expanding wider and wider.

But the danger of that is that we do that and we don't clarify what it truly means to be

a disciple of Jesus.

And here's what happens over time.

The remnant of God is drowned out by the masses.

So what we want to do instead is invite the masses to be a part of the remnant.

We want it to be normal at our church for people

to go crazy in their private prayer life. We want it to be normal in our church for people to come in

worshiping Jesus, believing that he is the better option for their lives than anything they could

give their life to. We want it to be normal for people to have faces that are glowing with the

glory of God. And no life is not easy,

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