This bread that came
down from heaven that Jesus talks about in the 6th chapter
of John; He said, "I am the bread that oometh down
from heaven. If any man eat of me he will live
forever." Thank God. That is the reason old babylon
is dead (no true spiritual life), if you please. She
wouldn't eat this bread that came down from heaven. She
was bound to bake her own bread. The 18th chapter of
Revelation tells us that she has got all kinds. It tells
us that her merchants have waxed rich from her delicacies.
She has 'cookies' and 'sweet rolls,' 'doughnuts' --
anything you want. She has it to suit your taste. If she
hasn't got what you like, she will bake something up to
suit you, But God has a people, If You please, that wants
the bread to come down from heaven. This bread I am
preaching about is the Holy Word of God with no leavening
added to it and nothing taken away from it. It cannot be
baked in men's or devils ovens. Amen! It comes straight
from heaven every day.
Someone
said, I've heard men that preached that, and said you had
to have a little leaven in it to get it raised. Oh, no.
This bread that comes down from heaven, my friend, is
raised by the power of God. The Holy Ghost moving on it if
you please, raised it and caused it to be that which would
be food to our little souls. So, we have a picture before
us here, of that time the kingdom would go through this
age of Protestantism, showing forth as a woman taking
three measures of meal and to it adding this leaven or
corruption or this earthly work, until the whole is
leavened. Oh, help us to see this picture of false
religion that will not eat God's bread.
In the
4th chapter of Isaiah and verse one he gives us a prophecy
there that will help us clarify. "And in that day,
seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will
eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us
be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
There's people trying to find out what day that was. After
the second world war, or while it was going on,many
preachers said, 'that was the day' that Isaiah was talking
about. They hunted up statistics and showed that the men
were being killed off so fast that there were seven women
for every one man. God pity the poor man that seven women
was to take hold of. I could just help you a little bit on
that business. You need to know that God constructed a man
and woman so that one woman is all that a man needs. I
just want to tell you from the Bible and from experience,
If you will give her all the love and care that you owe
unto her, you will be working mighty hard the rest of your
life. You won't have any time for anything else. And when
you put forth all the effort and strength that you possess
to love and care for that woman and look after her there
will still be a lot of woman left there desiring more. You
won't need to run anywhere else. In that day, seven women
will take hold of one man, saying, we will eat our own
bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by
thy name to take away our reproach. What is he talking
about? In that day, keeps referring right back to Isaiahs
prophecy. You go back to the first chapter and second
chapter. He has been talking about that same day all the
way, it never changed in the second chapter. He said
"in that day the mountain of the Lord's house shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto
it. And there will the Lord of hosts prepare a feast unto
all people of fat things of wines on the lees,well
refined." Now you know what day that is, It is this
Gospel Day. That is the day he is talking about. Not in
the days of the second world war, but in this Gospel day,
Isaiah was talking about seven women would take hold of
one man.
Who is
the one man? Christ, my friend. But what are their
attitudes toward Him? He is showing us nothing more than
the seven false churches right down through the seven ages
of time. In every age, when God had a true church, the
devil had a false one, if you please, that would look to
Christ, and all they glorified Him for His name was, to
take away their reproach. They didn't want to eat His
bread, they didn't want to dress like He said dress, with
the robes of righteousness. They just wanted the name to
take away their reproach. Well, I am here to tell you,
that taking the name of Christ will not take away your
reproach. Professing the name of Christ, will not take
away your reproach. What is reproach? Sin, if you please.
In your heart and life and it takes the blood of Jesus
Christ to take it away. We must eat this bread that eomes
down from heaven or we will still be dead. We can have a
name that liveth and still be dead. Our reproach will
still be upon us, unless we eat this bread and dress like
He says dress. The robes of righteousness are the way
Christ wants us to dress. Somebody said, don't you think
He meant there, modest apparel and so forth? My friend, He
basically means the robes of righteousness
"We
will eat our own bread, we will choose what we eat, we
will take the part of the Word of God we want and the part
we do not want we won't take - but we are going to keep
the name." It will never take away your reproach.
Amen! The bride of Christ loves the bridegroom And a bride
that loves the bridegroom is going to dress like the
bridegroom wants her to. He is gone away, but He is coming
back after her. Thank God, all the Word of God really is,
when you boil it down, is a love letter. It tells us how
to find Christ. Then, after we find Him, it tells us how
He wants His bride to dress and act, talk and walk; what
He wants her attitude to be.
When
I was overseas and wrote that I was going to be back in
this country a certain time, my father was not very well
with heart trouble, but he decided to drive and meet me,
and my companion got ready to come along. She began to
think how I liked to see her hair fixed the best, what
dress I liked to see her in the best, and brother, when I
got there and stepped off the truck she was dressed just
like I liked to see her. That is just exactly the way the
bride of Christ is. She is not worried about surroundings.
She is looking for her husband to come after her, Glory be
to God, she is going to be fixed up just exactly like she
knows it pleases Him. Whether it pleases herself or
anybody else, she wants to please Him. Why? That is the
way she loves Him.
