The Real Food and Drink (DCLC – July ’86, Part 2)

My wife and a friend of hers were going into a very big, palatial home, the kind you never get to go into. It was some sort of Christian gathering, and they were walking through one room with this plush carpet, and Helen and her friend were talking about how nice the house was. They walked into the next room, and her friend turned to Helen and said, “I don’t like the carpet in here, it’s not like the one in the other room, it’s not as soft and cushiony.” And then Helen said, “Boy, we spoil easily, don’t we? We really spoil fast, folks.” And again, I’m reminded of the story of this huge company that was brought in together, and this is what we have an announcement to make. You know we’ve been installing computers, and this is what we want to tell you. You all work hard. You’ve been working here for years. You’ve been working long, hard labor. You built this company. And now we want to tell you that computers have been installed and there’s no work for any of you to do, but that’s all right, no one is going to be laid off. In fact, you’re all going to get a 20% raise. You’re going to have retirement benefits as always. There is nothing you’re going to have to do anymore. We’re going to pay on Wednesday. And all we ask of you from henceforth and evermore is that you come in on Wednesday and spend an hour here picking up your paycheck.

There was this long silence. A hand went up in the back. You mean every Wednesday? Do you see how fast we can move? Now, I just want to call your attention. We get saved one day. Hallelujah. We’re rotten, dirty, slow down, stinking sinners. Suddenly, the Lord has changed us utterly, changed our lives, and made us holy in Him; that’s enough, folks. And we praise and thank Him. And then He heals us, and He heals a friend of ours, and He does some other wonderful things, and we’re broke, and one day He gives us a lot of money right out and over when we’re desperately in need. Boy, the next day we get up, looking around and saying, “Hey, Santa Claus, what are you going to do for me today?” And it’s on that day that He’s going to change; in all our lives, He’s going to change. This is why this has happened today. Alright, we’re just moving along here. I’m not asking you to change. I’m just telling you this story.

Listen to this Christian. He’s very perceptive if He’s nothing else, and He just thrusts right in here. Labor not for bread, for the food that perishes, but for food which abides into everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him has God the Father placed His seal. Now then they ask Him, “Alright if You want us to believe in You, work a sign.” And they mention a sign, and I’m going to pass that over. And I think I’m going to pass up everything else here and come back and just show you how this Christian has lived all that we have just read about. We’re going to find out how He did that. Before we do, and before we can fully understand this, I want us to go back into eternity again and come forward just for a moment. Will you return with me? Let’s go through the door. We’ll pass time and space. We will observe the creation as we pass it. We will go past the eternities, and we will go into God.

Now, tell me, who is the only Christian, please? There is only one Christian, that’s the Father, not the Son. By the way, He’s going to make that evidently clear here in just a moment. What does the Son learn from the Father, in eternity past? He learns that He, the Son, must live by means of the Father. He knows that. Are you clear? Are you really clear? You’re not clear. There is Life out there; it’s God the Father’s life. That life does not belong to the Son. It belongs to the Father. The Father gives Him that life, and the eternal Son lives in eternity by the life form of that species, the life of His Father. He lives by His Father’s life, and that’s how He lived.

And I’m going to tell you something else. That life is Spirit, and He knows that. That’s one of the things He’s learned, that He lives by that life, and that life is Spirit. Now, brothers and sisters, I assume that that’s plaster. It is plaster. I mean, that’s concrete plaster. That’s what it is. What is God? He is Spirit. That’s concrete by composition. What is God by composition? Spirit. The life by which the second Christian lives is, in composition, spirit. The Father’s life is the life that lives the Christian life, and that life is Spirit. And the Son knows that. He knows those two things. Now then, you know what else the Son knows? He knows that He must partake of that Father. He partakes of the Father’s life, which is Spirit. He actually, in ways we cannot understand, there is a partaking by means of the eternal Son of the Father. There is a partaking of the eternal Son of the Father, His life, His substance, His nature.

There will be a shadow of that placed on earth one day. And that shadow is called eating and drinking. Are you following me? Whatever it is the Son does to draw from the Father is shadowed, is pictured, on this earth in creation, in the act of eating and drinking. The Son eternal knows that through eating and through drinking is His partaking of the Father’s life, living by that life which happens to be Spirit. Alright, do you see what He has? Do you see what He’s equipped with? Are you clear? Are you clear? No. Terry is not clear.

Audience: Did the Son and the Holy Spirit exist with God and as God before eternity? When there was just God, and when He was all?

I believe my sister that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are all there forever. There never was when any one of them was not.

Audience:  Okay, since the Son was with God, toward God, was God, and in God…

All those things are correct.

Audience: How does He learn?

Don’t ask me; ask him. Hey, listen. Listen, folks. You know, there’s one like this in every conference. You know, I’m telling you more than you’ve ever heard in your life about the eternity past. You got more familiar with it, but somebody in here has got to know even more. Sister, can’t you be satisfied with knowing more than Aristotle ever hoped to know? I cannot tell you how it is that the Son learns from the Father; I can only tell you that that was the desire of the Father. We’re going to learn an incredible thing. We’re going to learn that the Father’s will is at variance with the Son’s will. It’s all right. It’s right here. I’m going to read it to you. The Son’s will and the Father’s will are at variance with one another. Yeah, well, hold on. Now then, those are things, if I may use this word, that are in the mind of God the Son. They are in the experience of God the Son. Are you clear? The Father’s life, He learns from Him because the Father wills it…that’s why. He partakes of the Father, and that will one day be shared as pictures, as eating and drinking. It is by the Father’s life He lives, and that life is Spirit.