<TITLE>06. Par 51-58</TITLE>L-51 And there is no man worthy to open the Book, or to loose the Seals thereof; but the Lamb, that was slain from the foundation of the world, come took the Book and loosed the Seals. O Lamb of God, come this morning, open the Book to us, and let us look in with Thee, Lord, and see what we must do to be prepared for this hour. Bless every church, bless the oncoming meetings, each one of them, and our little meeting, to join with them coming on. And when we leave here today, may we be able to say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, as He spake to us by the way?" Grant it, Father. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-52   Now to you that would like to turn, usually you like to read from behind a minister when he's going to read, to find out just where he is speaking from, if you have your Bibles, and will turn to Saint Matthew the 4th chapter.

L-53 And now I'm going to give my text just before I speak; more or less, want to teach it like, and speak it as we go along. And this I have titled, somehow, I don't know why, I'm titling this: The Harvest Time.

L-54 And we're going to take a Scripture reading, to base this thought upon, to draw from here the context of the text. We're going to read Saint Matthew the 4th chapter, a portion of it. This is in the temptations of Jesus. After He was filled with the Holy Spirit, He was led into the wilderness.
Now when Jesus was led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
And the devil taken him up into the holy city, and set him upon a pinnacle of the temple,
And he said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dashest thy foot against the stone.
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.
And again, the devil taken him unto... exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glories of them;
And he said unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me.
... Jesus said unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve.

L-55   I want to back up just a little bit, to the 4th verse again.
But he answered and said unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

L-56 Now for a subject, I would like to take that, "every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Now hold that in thought while we speak.

L-57 Jesus once said, in Saint John 6:48, I believe that's right, as I jotted it down this morning, "I am the Bread of Life." This was at the feast of the Passover, when the Jews were--were eating their kosher in commemoration of the manna that fell in the wilderness, and--and they were drinking from a fountain there representing the Rock that was in the wilderness, and they were having a great time. And Jesus cried right out, in the midst, and He said, "I am the Bread of Life. Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, for the space of forty years, and they're every one, dead. But I'm that Bread that come from God out of Heaven. If a man eat therof, He'll not die." And for the rock, He said, "I am that Rock that was in the wilderness. I am that Rock that your fathers drank from."

L-58 "How?" They said, "You're a man not more than fifty years old, and say that You seen Abraham? Now we know that Thou has a devil and are mad."


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