Sowing Seeds   The Bride Richard V. Milner Mar 24, 2003 Renee and I were talking last night when she started speaking about some things that she is learning about the Jewish wedding and how it correlates with our Messiah and the Word of which He is. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh. Well to my recollection the only Word that became flesh in the Bible was the Messiah YH’shua himself. So if that is the case as it is proven in the first chapter of John then the Messiah is the Word, the very thing you carry around in your hands everyday. The Bible is what the Messiah manifested from. So when Renee and I were talking about some things that she was learning in this Bible study. She was so caught up in this Bible study that this is all she talks about. As I was speaking, the Lord emphasized on the seed sown into Renee while we were walking in the Messianic Jewish ways years back. We had talked and learned about the katuba (wedding contract). Learned about how the wedding took place and how all that and more correlates to the whole Bible. How the Katuba was the marriage contract handed to Moses on Mt. Sinai (The Law). Then as we accept the Messiah who is the groom of the bride we accept the Katuba. Is it the Law that we accept, sort of, but more it is the fulfillment of the Law, Messiah YH’shua. It also shows where in a Jewish wedding the husband goes off and builds his bridal chamber that is usually attached to his own father’s house. Isn’t that what Messiah YH’shua said? Also while the groom is off building the bridal chambers he is also making enough money that he and her can survive for a full year before he is allowed to go off to war or to a job. How close would you grow to your companion if you and him/her were with each other all day, every day for a year? Also is this not the same thing that YH’shua said He was going to do. Build us a mansion and then bring us to the mansion and stay with us for a season. Renee didn’t remember us talking about that right away, she did hear it as a seed and now that she is learning this in her Bible study, it is blossoming. As she was talking, something she said, I never thought about before. I know when I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior; I became a part of the bride of Christ. But what I never thought about before was when the wedding took place. The bride of Christ is already married; we are just waiting on Him to return to take us to the Bridal Chamber. But when I found this out I never looked back to my salvation when I accepted Jesus to be my personal Lord and Savior. When did I get married to the Messiah? When I came to YH’shua I was in the bride of Christ. But when I accepted Him, I married Him right then. That is how I became a part of the Bride of Christ. My (Richard’s) wedding day was the day I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. This was my day with the Lord. He is my husband and I am waiting with patience for Him to return so I can go to my bridal chamber that He has prepared for me. A few months ago a pastor friend of mine said something that I had never looked at before. He was talking about being faithful to your wife or husband. HE said, “When you say, “I do” to your companion, you say I don’t to everyone else!” That is really good, I don’t to everyone else. Well that is exactly what happens when you marry the Messiah. You say I do to Him and say I don’t to everyone else. And in this case, everything else. I am saying to that every idol you had before Him is now something you either get rid of or put below Him. So when He becomes first in your life, then everything else becomes the past. One other thing. In traditions in the Jewish wedding, the groom will send a gift back to his bride and the last gift he sends back is a gift a gold to let her know that it is very soon that He will be returning. A few years ago, the gold went around the world. Jesus, I do! BE Blessed! Richard