by T. Austin-Sparks
Messages given in June 1935. Edited and supplied by the Golden Candlestick Trust.
The remnant seems to be particularly bound up with the Divine jealousy and the Divine jealousy centres upon this remnant. If this is so, and the New Testament interpretation of that is that while Jerusalem as a whole, as here expressed representing the whole church, it is not representing the full thought of God, God is concerned with a company, a remnant. They are a company of the Lord's people who represent His full thought and His jealousy is bound up with them. He is jealous for them with a great jealousy because they express His full thought, not actually, but ideally. It is concerning this ideal that He is so jealous. Over that we want to be occupied for a little while to get some of the factors and features of this Zion company which is so close to the heart of the Lord.
