<TITLE>13. Par 94-100</TITLE>L-94 The verse that says, "He is Meat indeed and Drink indeed." I have a little mark here, the 57th verse, "Meat indeed and Drink indeed." Listen what He said here.
And as the living Father hath sent me, and I live by My Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
In other words, "The Father sent Me, and I live by Him." And every man that comes to Christ must live by Christ. Oh, my, there you are; that's the communion. That's the real communion that you find when you live by Christ.

L-96 Now, our bodies need food and drink each day to survive, our physical body. If we don't take food each day and drink, then our body weakens. There's something in us that we must have food. One day's food will not last for the next day. You've got to have food each day to strengthen your mortal being. You can live over, but you're weaker. And the second day, you're still weaker. And the third day, you're getting tremendous weak.
Well, that's what many times that we do in the spiritual realm. You see, each day we've got to commune with Christ. We've got to talk to Him each day. We've got to settle it with Him each day. Paul said, "I die each day. (See?) Each day, I die; yet I live, not me but Christ lives in me." So if your physical body needs food each day and drink each day to survive, your spiritual body needs spiritual Food and communion with the Lord each day to survive. Yes.
Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." So each day we've got to study the Bible. Some people doesn't study It at all. Some picks It up every two or three times a year. But a real, real believer that's really spiritually built up, he reads his Bible every day and talks to the Lord. That's right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He has to. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

L-98 Now, another thing we take food for is to build up our body to resist diseases. If you don't take food, and let your body get weak, then it's subject to diseases. Diseases will break right into the blood stream, and here you're gone. If your blood isn't rich and pure, well, then it'll, disease will go right into your blood stream. So you've got to eat good nourishing food to keep your blood stream right. If you don't, you're allergic to diseases. That's what's the matter with a lot of Christians.

L-99 Like hothouse plants... You know, you take a plant out of the hothouse, you have to baby it. It don't know the weather. It doesn't know the sunshine and things; it's been covered over and babied. That's what's the matter with too many so-called Christians; they're hothouse plants (That's right.), subject to every bug comes along. You know, it's only the--the--it's only the--the delicate plants that has to be sprayed, or, the hybrid plants.

L-100 Do you know, you take an old hereford cow and turn him out there on the pasture, and turn a longhorn out there, that longhorn can make his own way because he's original breed. But you take a Brangus or a Hereford that's a cross breed and a hybrid, it's a better cow to look at, sure, fatter and healthier, but you turn them out there and they can't make their way. They'll die. They've got to be babied. See?.
And that's what's the matter today, we got better-dressed Christians, bigger churches, and a lot of--of education, lot of theology, but they have to be babied all the time; you have to look through their glass or you're not seeing at all. What we need is some thoroughbred Christians, born under the Blood of the Lord Jesus, that live not off of church theology, but off of the Word of God, the communion with Christ. The Word coming into the believer, his--his spiritual body is built up. Not a hothouse baby...


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