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Rabbi Schneider — The Bride of Jesus


TOPICS: Jesus

Today we're gonna be talking about, beloved, over coming to enter deeper in to divine love. Jesus is calling us up to the mountain, just like he did the Shulamite bride. Beloved, let's go with them and discover King Jesus's love for us in a deeper way. God bless you and Shalom.

Listen! My beloved! Behold, he is coming, Climbing on the mountains, Leaping on the hill! (Song of Solomon 2:8)


My beloved said to me, Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along. For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. The flowers have already appeared in the land; The time has arrived for pruning the vines... Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!(Song of Solomon 2:10-13)


It was time for her to come out from under the shade tree and to conquer the mountain. She saw Jesus on top of the mountain. At first she was experiencing him in the banquet hall. She was being refreshed in his presence.

He was proving his reality to her. She was taking shade under the apple tree. And now all of a sudden, bam, Jesus is someplace else. He's on top of a mountain, no longer in the shade of the apple tree.

But now he's on top of the mountain, and he said, arise now, get up from being under the apple tree. Arise and follow me now up the mountain. So we're moving in now, beloved ones, to a new phase of the journey as we grow in to divine love.

I remember years ago I was ministering in a church, this was ten years ago or more, and I was ministering there for the Sunday morning and the Sunday evening service.

And after the Sunday morning service this woman came up to me and she handed me a picture. She said, I saw a vision of you, and she drew the vision out. There was this big mountain and I was at the bottom of the mountain. I wasn't that encouraged.

Somehow it didn't strike me that I'd already gone up the mountain and I'd come back down and now I was at the bottom and had conquered it. I didn't really register it that way. So I brought the picture with me to the evening service.

I said, well what does it mean to you? She said, it's time for you to go up the mountain. And it was. It was time for me to go up the mountain, to learn how to walk by Jesus alone. It was time to conquer feelings. It was time to conquer needing the props of the world to keep me going, to keep me feeling good, to keep me boosted up.

It was time, beloved ones, to go up the mountain. It was hard, so, so, so hard. And during that time in my life when I was so vulnerable in the Lord, the Lord led me just to sit before him every day for hours on end and just listen to worship music, and fix my gaze on him. For an entire year I did this, and got rid of every other responsibility in life that I could.

Some of you remember that time. Some of you that were with me at that time thought something was wrong with me. I remember somebody was trying to make excuses for me. They said to somebody else, well everybody goes through things.

And I was thinking, I'm not going through anything. I'm moving on with Jesus. There's nothing wrong. Somebody else described me as going through manopause.

It was a time of great stripping away to become dependent on him. It was a time to go up the mountain. And even as it is difficult to climb an earthly mountain, so it is to overcome in Jesus. But Jesus said, he that overcomes will inherit these things.

And as I look across the group tonight, I know that there's many of us here, many, many, many of us here, and we're relying on the flesh. We're relying on the flesh. We're relying on people and things in the natural world to lean into, to lean on, to distract us with.

And as long as we do that, we'll always be weak in the spirit. 'Cause the only way to become strong in the spirit is to fast the things of the flesh, including wrong relationships, relationships where we're dependent on other people.

Not that we shouldn't be mutual sources of blessing, but we have to come to the place where it's you and me alone, God. It's you and me alone.
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