2024.08.03 - House Of Bread And Praise

2024.08.03 - House Of Bread And Praise 

Saturday, August 03, 2024

5:24 PM

1. 1. Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. KJV

1. a. Sojourn 

1. i. OT:1481 guwr (goor); a primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid): KJV - abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, surely.

1. b. Bethlehem Judah 

1. i. Bethlehem  - house of bread

1. ii. Judah - Praise 

1. 2. Ruth 1:3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. 4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. 5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. KJV

1. a. When you leave the House of Bread and forsake praise Death enters in.

1. b. We don’t leave because we are not right with God - actually that is the very reason we STAY

1. 3. Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread. KJV

1. 4. Psalms 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. KJV

1. a. He did not inhabit 

1. i. Words of roaring

1. ii. The issue or complaint

1. iii. The whining or even the truth of the whining 

1. iv. Even the facts!

1. b. He DID inhabit

1. i. The praises of His people !

1. c. Praise will 

1. i. Bypass barrenness

1. ii. Deflect death 

1. iii. Move us into His Presence and Him into ours

1. iv. A life of praise will cause our walk to become a habitation instead of a vistation

1. d. We say I cant praise because

1. i. I cannot feel Him

1. ii. I am going through a battle

1. iii. I cannot see the victory

1. iv. Because I have failed and sinned and fallen short

1. v. God says praise Him BECAUSE OF THOSE THINGS

1. 5. God Wont Fit In The House We Built . . . 

1. a. . . . Because He inhabits out praise and our praise is too small! 

1. b.