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find fullness. When you leave fullness to find fullness, you only
find emptiness. God instructed this family for ten years in that
truth that there is only emptiness outside the House of Bread.
In the House of Bread, famine is fullness. Outside the House
of Bread, abundance is poverty.
There is no fullness outside the House of Bread. Fullness is in
Christ. It is not in Moab. It is not in Christian service and it is
not in Christian fellowship. Those things are wonderful in their
place, but they are not fullness. If you look for fullness in
Christian or spiritual gifts, you will only find emptiness. If you
look for fullness in scholarship and academics or even Bible
knowledge, you will only find emptiness. Fullness is in
Bethlehem; it is in Christ; it is in the House of Bread. Until we
go back to Bethlehem, we cannot begin to have the union with
our heavenly Boaz that results in the production of the Lord
Jesus Christ. We need to go back to Bethlehem, and that is
where it all begins.
Now, I am emphasizing the word “back” in “Back to
Bethlehem”. I am making a big deal out of that because
Bethlehem is a picture of Christ, a picture of fullness, a picture
of abundance, and every Christian starts out where they started
out in Ruth chapter one. You are already in Bethlehem. You
start out in Bethlehem. Some Christians have a mistaken idea
that they need something in addition to Jesus. They say, “Oh
yeah, I have been saved. I have trusted Christ as my Savior, but
now I need something in addition to that.”

Sometimes you hear people talk about a second blessing, “I
have been saved, and I have Christ as my Savior, but now I need
a second blessing or a baptism of the Holy Spirit or some
additional experience. There is no second blessing but there is
a rediscovery of the first blessing, and sometimes that
rediscovery of the first blessing is so dramatic that you might
call it a second blessing.

When you receive Christ as your Savior, God has given you His
everything. He does not give you Jesus plus anything; not Jesus