Where You Die I Will Die

 "Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and do so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."  Ruth 1:17

The finality and the commitment implied in these words is incredibly powerful.

This is Love.

"Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end."  John 13:1b

"Love...endures all things."  1 Corinthians 13:6

This is the commitment of brotherly love that a true brother speaks to his brother.

Gentiles are grafted into their vine and get to have the same Father.

Seeing ourselves as separate with a separate destiny is a doctrine of hell.  It would have made Ruth's speech sound something like this.  "Where you go, I will go, unless it gets tough and then I'll get pulled out by God because He loves me and you are on your own to pay for all the times you let God down." 

 Doesn't sound nearly as inspirational does it?!

Oh God helps us take up the grace to love to the very end!

George Warnock - Get READY

 http://followthelamb.net/29/SID29849.mp3

This teaching by George Warnock is so true, because it is so simple.

The Loving relationship between Yeshua and the Father

and

Yeshua and us

and

us and each other

is the simple key to it all.

But we resist because our self-life senses that this is a call

to the cross, and our self-life will look for absolutely anything 

else but that.

George Warnock Time of Preparation

STAY

 Religion has many places of refuge, "good" works, tithing, evangelizing, defending the truth, pointing out lies, pointing out sins, etc.  

Following the Messiah, has one place of refuge, the Messiah!

The Lord is doing a good and deep work in my wife, and this is some of that fruit.

 

 This morning she shared that she "saw" herself held by Jesus with His arm wrapped around her and satan and his forces had one object to goad,

 and prod 

and entertain 

and amuse 

and tempt

 (and whatever else you can think of) 

her in such a way as to get her to come out of that embrace

 in her own power  

with her self 

defending herself,

 protecting herself, 

relying on anything other than His life. She said, "He didn't show us a way, He is the Way, He didn't tell us a truth, He is the truth." 

 

Galatians 2:20 TLV  "and it is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me. And the life I now live in the body, I live by trusting in Ben-Elohim—who loved me and gave Himself up for me."

What Does Faith Look Like? Go Back to Genesis!

 Galatians 3:6-9 "⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” ⁷ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. ⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” ⁹ So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."

Both here and more extensively in Hebrews 11, and again in Romans 4 we are given one consistent example of faith.  The faith that God credits as righteousness, and that faith is in Abraham in the book of Genesis.  

Hopefully now you are beginning to see why I so often emphasize, one book, one story and why I really do not like the two added pages in your Bible that are not inspired, one says Old Testament and one says New Testament, they are worthless and misleading and highly detrimental to the purpose that a merciful God has for the community of Messiah that is on the earth in these last days before the great Day of the Lord.  We are to be brother to the most hated and violently opposed people group on the planet, the Jewish people.  If we know God has an unchanging purpose for this ethnic nation in that specific geographical land we will be wise and willing and useful, if not we are Nabal or Haman, period.

Abraham Rejoiced to See My Day

 John 8:56  "Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see My day, and he saw it and rejoiced.”

One book, one story, one way of salvation.  Abraham saw it by faith. He was overjoyed by what he saw.  The law and Moses come later and they have their purpose, but the faith of Abraham the faith of the Jewish people was firmly planted in the coming of Messiah, period.