<TITLE>07. Par 61-70</TITLE>L-61   A man is knowed by his credentials, the credentials of the Word of God, if he is sent by the Word of God and with the Word of God. Same in every age! It's always been.

L-62 We can't live by yesterday's light. Yesterday's light is history. We know nothing about it. You can't get warm today by the sun that shines yesterday. That's what's the matter with the churches today. That's what's the matter with the people, they're trying to live by what happened yesterday. You can't warm by a painted fire. Certainly not, it has no heat in it. Yesterday's sun has no heat in it.

L-63   The sunlight is sent to the earth, in the natural, to ripen the grain for the advancing harvest. Each day brings forth a new sun. The sun that's shining today, bringing the wheat up, in Canada; that same sun, well, if it hadn't... didn't have no more sun than that, this coming July or August, it could never ripen the grain. It's got to be stronger and more powerful, each day it grows and matures, to bring the grain on.

L-64 Now if the grain, itself, if it begins to mature, the grain comes on, if it stays right with the grain, it only builds the grain. Each day, the husk around it, the--the part calcium and whatever goes in it, builds right into the grain, as the sun gets stronger.

L-65   But you take the sun that shines in August, and put it on the wheat today, it would kill it. Certainly, you can't do that. It must come in its season. So must God's wheat and grain ripen just in the season, the season It's in. But how could a sun... Well, a wheat would die, the fruits would die, by the sun that lives today, that shines today, rather. Its oncoming harvest is ripening. The grain should mature with the light.

L-66 But the thing is, today, the church grain don't want to mature. It wants to stay like it was back in Moody's time, Sankey, Finney, Knox, Calvin. They were alright, they were the light of the hour.

L-67 But this is another hour. This is another day. This is the advancement of the Gospel; It's coming to its maturity. So we can't live in what Luther said, Wesley said, or some of the rest of them. We're living in the Light that's predicted for this day. We're in the Seventh Church Age, not the third or fourth church age. The grain should be able to receive It. If it doesn't, it falls off and It means nothing to it. The grain is matured with the Light if it goes ahead with the Light.

L-68   So should the church bring forth the bread of each age, that Jesus commanded, that, "Man shall live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."

L-69 The Bread that we need is in the Bible. It is the complete revelation of God's plan. It's the complete revelation of Jesus Christ. We add nothing to It, or take anything from it; whosoever does, his name will be taken out of the Book of Life. We don't need any creeds to add to this. It's written just the way It's supposed to be. We don't add nothing to It, take nothing from It, preach It just the way It is, and God is, will manifest it. Every promise that He promised, He will manifest it just the same. We're not supposed to take from It or add to It. Just leave It the way It is.

L-70   But, you see, today, we find the people like it was somewhat in that day there, trying to live back in a glare. The church should ripen as the wheat ripens, "that man shall live by not by bread alone, but by every Word of God, the Bread of Life." Not just part of the Words; every Word of God, every age! Just don't stay and eat beans and potatoes all the time. There is other things goes with it, as we go on into the full course of God's great Dinner that's set before His people, the power of the Holy Ghost, the--the rejoicing of It, of the power and the Spirit that has been given. "The works that I do shall you do also. Because I live, you live also." The promises that Jesus made to His church, and yet today we find people trying to go way back into some other age that's gone by.


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