<TITLE>07. Par 59-68</TITLE>L-59 And Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." See, "I AM" was the Pillar of Fire that was in the bush, that talked to Moses. And if you would fix that out in its nouns and pronouns, not "I was, I will be." "I AM" is present tense, all the time.

L-60   We thinking of this, that Him saying, Himself now, that, "I am that Bread of Life." Now how could this man be Bread of Life? That's what we wonder. "My body is Bread," He said. And now how could this man be Bread? That's kind of strange, but don't be puzzled about it. People of His time got puzzled about it. They didn't know how that this man could actually be Bread, Himself. Also in Saint John 1, it is given to us this way, that, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." So, the Word became the Bread. The Word and the Bread here would have to be the same, 'cause Jesus is the Word and He is the Bread.

L-61 Now how could He be Bread and Word? All the... It would be puzzling, to the carnal mind. But we are hoping, this morning, that there is no carnal minds among us, that there is a spiritual mind among us, that we could understand what the Father is trying to get to us here. Seeing these words are puzzling, but, at the same time, they are Scriptural Truth, see.

L-62 "Now how could this man be Bread?" That's what they said. That's what, I believe, Josephus, many of you historians... as I been studying it.

L-63   Now I'm writing a book, my commentary on the first four chapters of Revelation, hope to have it out pretty soon. It'll be a large book. Then I'll have a brochure of each church age.

L-64 And I was studying church history. I... it was kind of in my mind, I believe it was Josephus, that, one of the early writers, anyhow, that said that, "This Jesus of Nazareth, Who went about healing the sick," said, "His disciples dug Him up and eat His body." See, they were taking the communion. They thought that they dug His body up and was eating His body. Which, we do eat the communion, or take the communion, in symbol form, of His body, 'cause He was the Word.

L-65 Now, see, this is puzzling. And, the same time, there is Scriptures. And Jesus said, "All Scripture must be fulfilled." See? Now, we want to always cut our minds from anything contrary to that Scripture. Don't never, never, any time, leave that Scripture for anything, not one Word of It. Stay exactly with that Scripture.

L-66   Now, God has got to judge the people someday. And if He is going to judge the people by a church, which church will it be? They say, "The Catholic church." Well, then, which Catholic church? See? Because they are in difference with each other, worse than they are with us. See, they different, one... They're all the different forms of them, the Roman and the Orthodox, and the Jewphanite and, oh, many different tribes of them. And they certainly at one another's throats, so which one of them Catholic churches? If He does it by the Protestant church, which Protestant church? Each one differents from the other.

L-67 But He is going to judge the world, and He has got to have some standard to judge the world by, or He would be unjust to let us go now and--and live this life without a standard to be judged by. Who would be right? Where could you tell what was right? There has to be a standard.

L-68   And He said, in His Bible, that He would judge the world by Jesus Christ. And we read here that Jesus is the Word. In Hebrews 13:8, said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." So, therefore, He will judge the church by their attitude towards Christ, Who is the Word. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Not out of the mouth of man, not out of the seminary, not out of the--of the church, but, "out of the mouth of God." Man must live by That, and That alone; not man's interpretation, but God's Own Word!


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