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Monday, December 30, 2019






End of the year thoughts.


Willing, loving, joyful subservience and moment by moment dependence, the life of a follower of the Messiah!  A servant, who is totally dependent, so you see the beauty of receiving God's mercy?
Do you see the beauty of this life that is designed to destroy pride and elevate humility?

What wisdom!


Gentleness, tenderness two qualities we need more of.  Fruit of the Spirit available to whosover will. 


"But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;"   1 Peter 2:9  
"Holy race" ... singular... we are grafted into the one, already existing vine.


Exodus 19:5,6  "Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations--for the whole earth is Mine.
And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites."


Deut. 7:6   "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth."


So instead of trying to create a new thing called "church" why not enjoy and rejoice in your inclusion by grace through faith into an already existing, chosen, holy, race?


Taking Bonhoeffer's "Life Together" in the tiny little bites that it deserves.  It is a very deep, very practical book.







Saturday, December 21, 2019

One Family, One Father, Through the Life of Our Brother, By the Power of the Spirit

Complete Jewish Bible, Tree of Life Version, The Messianic Writings by Daniel Gruber.

Those are 3 translations that you could read that would make clear the simple beauty of Ephesians chapter 1,2 and 3.  Our foundation is so important, and the Apostle Paul, a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin who still kept the law, and yet was willing to wrestle with Jacob (James) in Acts chapter 15 about how little was expected of gentiles who were being added to the Body of Messiah, that Apostle Paul, not some strange animal that was out to establish something new called the church, if that was his goal, why go back to Jerusalem, why consult with Jacob (James) and Peter at all?.  Abraham is our Father, there is One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.  The prophets from age to age have been speaking of this one body of the Messiah, the chosen people. The beauty is for the gentile who drops their pride and bows to enter into the tent of Shem, they become a part of the body of Messiah.  This understanding that there is no such thing as "church" because we gentiles are simply being caught up into the continuing work of God, Messiah's community, the Body of the Messiah, something that has been, is and will be.  There is no need for a new expression, just a proper understanding of the true calling and election, and the humility to agree with God that He has a right as Creator to select a chosen people and bless the nations through them.  Humility is the key to receiving that blessing.  "Even the dogs get the crumbs that fall from the Master's table."  BAM, woman you are in with the full blessing, healing and salvation of the family.  Welcome Home!
That is how gentiles get into the family, by humility.
Don't you see that the use of the words "Christ" and 'church' have been instituted by satan himself to twist and distort what should be clear and plain.  "Christ" would have made no impression on the mind of the Jew who made up the majority of Messiah's community in Acts.  Messiah connects the whole story together and shows the amazing continuing determination of God.
"Church" distorts and tries to introduce as new, something that is simply a wonderful opening up of something that is from ages past and will go on into ages to come, the Body of the Messiah, Messiah's community. 
To the faithful few who have made it this far.  Simply read Eph. chapters 1-3 in one of the translations above and see the beauty of being welcomed into the One family of God, the God of Israel, through the blood of the Messiah!

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Only His Life is Good Enough

Oh I only had a moment of anger,
Oh I only grumbled a little bit,
I had to let off some steam,
I'm only human,

The fullness of God is available to us.
His Life can come and live through us.
We can be a new creation, that falls on the
Stone every moment.

Only His Life is Good Enough
My best is not good enough, in fact it is
filthy menstrual rags.  (Very vivid picture,
thank you Isaiah for not being afraid to
tell it like it is!)

Drop all the excuses, every one of them,
and violently press into death to self, pick
up your cross and follow the crucified Lamb,
who never spoke one word that was His own,
everything flowed from the Father, through
His submitted Life.

Jesus, Yeshua Himself, is the example of
what God can do through a man.  And His
life by grace through faith can do that same
thing through the corporate body, each of us
gathered in humility with His life at the center,
the focus, the nexus, the beginning and the end
of all we do.