The Bridal Chamber Before the Banqueting House

There is only one solution to the "love of many growing cold because of lawlessness" time spent in the Bridal Chamber.

"He knew full well the cause of all her fears, her distrust sprang from her ignorance of Himself so He took her aside and in the sweet intimacies of mutual love her fears and distrust vanished like the mist of the morning before the rising of the sun." Union and Communion J. Hudson Taylor

The Messiah Was Amazed

Luke 7:6-10 "He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 7 That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.” 10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well."

 

The Messiah of Israel is amazed at the faith of a gentile.  A gentile who does not consider himself worthy of the time or attention of the Messiah.  A gentile who knows how authority works and who recognizes the authority of the Messiah to heal and forgive. 

I'm a gentile, my friend has one shoulder that has many tears in it and needs surgery, Jesus You have authority my friend needs the power of Your authority to heal, You have even given me that authority and I do love him, so, "Shoulder be healed in Jesus' Name."

ONE

One LORD, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all.
One Teacher, (call no man on earth your teacher)
One Father, (call no man on earth your father)

Don't sell your birth right to manifest the love and power of God for a bowl of soup, that is ultimate foolishness.

Thoughts from some moments with the King and His Kingdom.  

What's the Point?

The point of life, the point of having life, the point of being a person, is to glorify the One who made us.


By pouring out our lives, we can live in a place of manifesting the love of God to our fellow humans.


His life in me is my reality.


The cross cries out to our hearts, "I forgive you, I love you."  That is the rock on which we stand.

Jesus said He Is God

Matthew 23:34-38  "
³⁴ “Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, ³⁵ so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. ³⁸ Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! ³⁹ For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”


The Lord is sending prophets, The Lord is wanting to gather Jerusalem and the nation under His wings.  The Lord is declaring the current leadership of the Jewish people to be left desolate.  The Lord is saying when the "until" for the full restoration of the promises to the Jewish nation will be.


The Lord is Yeshua, Jesus, as He makes clear in this section.


(A lot of scholars, say He only makes "God" statements in the Gospel of John which was written much later, but I think I am reading this correctly in Matthew and He is declaring right here that He is God.)

Mercy...end of story!

The amazing enthralling mercy of God wanted to gather all humanity into His love.  That crashed and burned on the flesh of man. So, next step, choose one people out of all humanity and reveal Yourself to them and pour out Your mercy.  That people eventually sees that in order for them to ever be right they will need Salvation in the form of a human, a Messiah.  The Messiah comes and only a small portion of the chosen people receive mercy and have the blindness of the veil of pride removed.  This remnant goes and faithfully proclaims mercy to the gentles.  The ultimate result of the gentiles receiving this mercy is to lead the chosen people to jealousy, and so one day that nation will be born in a day.  That chosen people, that bride will be united with their Husband on the very spot of their betrothal, a living example of the Faithful and True God.  At that glorious time they will for 1000 years fulfill their call to go to all the nations and preach the gospel.  Amen

Hosea 1:10   Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Faithful and True

Revelation 19:11 "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True."


^{The rider is the Messiah of Israel, He is Faithful and True and so "all Israel will be saved".
We have completely blown it, if the goal has become, "to get to heaven".
The Messiah with His love, compassion and power is supposed to be living in us, and His appearance in us is to be a precursor for the on-going work of God, of driving the chosen people to jealousy.
Merciful Father, bring us in to the unity, the oneness with Your Son.}