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

Well, they get into a theological discussion about this, and they decide they want a sign. And one of them makes the terrible mistake of bringing up something He’s been thinking about for the last two days. Our Fathers showed us a sign. And He stops cold, dead right there in front of Him, and He says, “What? Your Fathers gave you manna in the wilderness?” That’s not the way I recall it. I don’t recall that Moses had a thing to do with it. And He’s back again to the heavens, and He remembers, “Oh, I would just give anything if you and I could get together.” Why don’t you ask me about what’s going on in reality? I pictured it for you in the wilderness. I ripped heaven open and poured food and drink out. And yesterday, I gave you food, and you didn’t even understand, and you didn’t wonder about Me and what’s going on inside Me.

He gets a little relief about this situation. He says, “Some of you are going to understand because My Father chose you.” And then He tells us something very incredible. And He says, “Those of you chosen are going to come to Me; you’re going to come to Me. It is My Father who is giving you the true bread out of the heavens. For the bread from God is that which is coming down from the heavens and is giving life to the world.

Now, do I have to explain to you what He was telling them? He is telling them that what happened in the wilderness of Israel was not real. It was not real. It was a symbol, and when He and the Father did it, they knew it was a symbol of things to come. And there is life, and life has been made into bread. Now tell me, what is that life? Please tell me what that life is. Okay, it’s Spirit, but who is it? No, it is the Father. That is the Father. The Father is Life. That life is Spirit, but have you ever realized that that life, God Himself, is that life? Is that not true? Stay with me. Is that not true? The Father is that life. That life was made into bread. That life was made into bread. The very God and Father of eternity past, God the Father, has been kneaded together. That life, which is Spirit, which is God, has been made into a loaf of bread, and that life, which is God, which has been made into a loaf of bread, the heavens have been ripped open and that bread which is God, has been thrust into this world of symbols and pictures and shadows, but it is still real. He is still real. The Father’s life, which is Spirit, is still real, and the Father’s life, which is Spirit, now made into bread, has come through one realm into the other, and now it is here, and for the first time, there’s real food around to be eaten. Praise the Lord.

Why do you sit there and just look at me like a Baptist? Why don’t you open your mouth? Don’t you know what you eat? What do you eat with what? Your mouth. Well, then open it. You should rejoice in this. You really should rejoice that the Father has been made into a loaf of bread. There’s only one life that lives the Christian life, and that Christian life has been made into a loaf of bread. And the Son of God has been eating and drinking that life, and now that life has become visible and physical and has broken out of the invisibles, into the realm visible. And that which was pictured in the wilderness has now become real on the shores of Galilee’s lake. Praise the Lord. The real manna is here, and the bread that is God the Father, the Christian life, has come and is available to somebody besides the Trinity.

Well, the Lord Jesus is excited about this. I’m going to read you the contrary wills of God the Father and God the Son. And this is pretty heavy. I may not even be able to explain this. The bread has come down out of heaven. I’m on page 80, I’m right past the attacks, for I have come down out of the heavenlies. Now, who is the bread of life? The Father, but He’s been made into a loaf of bread; now who is He? He’s the Son. The loaf of bread has come down out of the heavens. I do not do my own will. Now, you have to have a will of your own, right? And He’s not going to do what He wants to do. That’s one will. I do the will of the One who sent Me.

Do you know what the will of Him who sent Me is? The will of the One who sent Him is that they may see His Son and believe on Him and have the life that’s in that bread. That’s the will of the Father. You know the Son’s will? The Son’s will is to glorify the Father. The Father’s will is to glorify the Son, and in this particular case, the Father’s will won out. See, you folks out there, contrary wills. The Son wanted to come and glorify the Father. Father said, “No, my will is that You be glorified, that they see You and believe on You, and those that I chose in Me will respond and You will become My life. You will be the Father’s life as bread. You will come and You will be food and drink; the real food and drink. And they will see You and they will believe on You, those who have been chosen by Me”. Praise the Lord.

Now, down at the very bottom, He says that life has become bread, right? The bread has come down out of the heavens, and now He tells them very clearly who the bread is. “I am the bread of life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate and died. This bread, the Father’s life made into bread, The Father’s life which is the life He lives the Christian life by, which is Spirit, has come into this planet in the form of a Nazarene carpenter, and that bread out of heaven, when you eat it, you will not die.”

Now then, brothers, He’s going to tell us how He managed to live these two very intense days. And He’s going to tell you what He’s been doing while He’s been healing, and while He’s been working signs, and while He’s been walking on water, He’s going to tell you what He’s been doing. Now, He’s a man. Are you clear? He’s a man. Two-thirds of Him is 100% man. One third of Him is 100% God. And He’s going to tell you how Christian, the second Christian, lived that Christian life for the last couple of days. I’m on page 81, top half, last paragraph, top half. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood is the one who lives in Me, and I live in Him. Do you have any idea what that means? Well, bread comes into you; it doesn’t surround you. He does not say it “was” in Me. He says it “is” in Me.

Now I want you to remember again that the Spirit is without dimension. Are you clear? Free of time, free of space, and free of size. Do you realize that anyone who ever comes and eats Him and drinks Him, the very fact that they come and eat Him and drink Him, is proof that at that moment they are in God, and have always been in God, for all eternity. That’s what the passage says. He who comes to Me and eats My body and drinks My blood is in Me. It is your nature to eat Him. It is your nature to drink Him. I wish somebody had told you that the day you got saved, so you could get on with doing your nature. The fact that you ever came to Him thirsty and hungry, and you came to Him for food, is proof that something inside of you remembered things past that had happened. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen. The first sign that something in you remembers an eternity past, and I’m going to say it again, brothers. Part of you has lived in eternity past. And part of you is still in eternity past. And when you got hungry for Jesus and when you got thirsty for the Lord Jesus, you were remembering that once way back there somewhere, you really knew how to eat and you really knew how to drink and you had really taken of the real life and you had taken of the real drink and the real food. Praise the Lord. And that’s what brought you to the Lord Jesus Christ. Memories of things past.

He did not say that you were in Me, or you will be in Me, but he who comes to Me and eats My flesh and drinks My blood is in Me. And you’re in Him right now. You know why you’re in Him right now? Because there’s part of you that’s dimensionless. Always has been there, is there, and is always going to be there. I want you to understand again, there’s something inside of you, there’s something pulsating and living inside of you right this very instant; there is in this instant, in the other realm, and it is in God. And one day it said, “I’m hungry. I’ve lived inside of you, you pagan heathen infidel, and you’ve thrown every kind of garbage on this planet down here, and it hasn’t filled up anything.” Don’t you remember when you ate of the living God? And drank of the living God. And something in you came to Him because that was always in Him. You were born eating and drinking. Just as your Savior Jesus Christ, you were born living and eating and drinking. He has been forever eating and drinking. And you know, a lot of people heard this, and they walked off. That’s because their spirits had never lived in eternity past, and they had never really longed for that which they were not.

By the way, I just want to say something to those of you who are always wondering about predestination, and you’re wondering why this one gets saved and that one doesn’t get saved. Why don’t you start a movement to save mice, chickens, rats, cats, dogs, and birds? You’re not ever, well, you’re never burdened about them getting born again and why God didn’t elect them to be sons of God. I hope you don’t start now after I brought the subject up. The reason you’re not concerned about them is because they’re not your species. Well, brothers and sisters, people who have no God in them are not your species either. Never have been and never will be. You’ve been a son of God, I suppose, forever and forever, and now you’re just catching up with it in time and space.

Now then, now then, with all that He has just said, He who comes and eats Me and drinks Me is in me and I am in Him. Now what’s coming in Him? What’s coming in them? What’s coming in? God the Father, the only life that can live the Christian life, which is life, which is Spirit, which is coming in as bread, who is the Son of God. Now, that’s simple to follow, isn’t it? Did you get all that? You didn’t get all of that. And I am in Him. And what’s coming in? Oh, the only thing that’s coming in is bread, because you’re eating Him. The only thing you’re getting is food, but that food is the bread; it’s life made bread. And that life that was made bread was the Father. But once that bread, that life that was made bread, that bread became the Son. And you eat the bread. The bread comes in, the Son comes into you, the Father comes into you. How do they get into you without breaking your rib cage wide open? By means of the Holy Spirit? Because that life is Spirit. I know that’s a lot to string together. You don’t even have to understand it all. Just get an impression.