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FEAST OF TABERNACLES - 2001
Day 5
Fred Coulter - October 6, 2001
And greetings, brethren. This is day 5 of the Feast of Tabernacles,
2001. And as we have been seeing in the New Testament, when you apply
the holy days to it, how much it reveals the truth of God and brings
together the Old Testament and New Testament in a whole. And that’s
what it really is. It’s one Bible with two parts. Now let’s
understand something that God wants to happen. That God will grant and
give us if we yield to Him and try and understand His word, and live by
every word of God, and love Him with all our hearts and mind and soul and
being. Then God will bless us with understanding and knowledge and
truth. And that’s something that we need today more than ever before.
First of all, let’s see how this is accomplished. Let’s come to
Isaiah 28, and let’s understand what’s happening in the world, and also in
the Churches of God, and what is happening for those who are truly seeking
God, because Christ said there in John 4 that we have to worship God the
Father in spirit and in truth, and that God the Father is seeking such that
worship Him. Which means that if we do that with all our heart and
mind and soul and being, then God is going to open our minds to
understanding.
So here, Isaiah 28:1, because this is talking about exactly what is
happening in the world and in the churches of the world today, and some of
the Churches of God. “Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of
Ephraim…” And they are spiritually drunken. And isn’t it interesting
that the crown of Britain, even Prince Charles who is heir to the throne
said that it would be perfectly alright for a Roman Catholic to be king.
Now you think about that in relationship to the Protestant reformation.
And this is earthshaking. Now if you don’t have the book, “All
Roads Lead To Rome”, you better get it. Because that’s written by
an Englishman about what’s happening to the Protestant church in England,
and also reflecting what’s happening to the Protestant church in all the
world. Because you see, the Protestants really are only reformed
Catholics. That’s all they are. Because they never got rid of
Sunday, and Christmas, and Easter and New Years, and all the pagan holidays.
You see, if you’re going to make a break with Catholicism or any other
religion, it has to be complete, it has to be whole, it has to be from the
heart with deep repentance. And it’s not just a matter of adjusting a
little bit here, adjusting a little bit there and doing this and sort of
manipulating it around to please yourself. See, you cannot please God
when you do it by your means. And so that’s what’s happening there.
“Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty is
a fading flower [just exactly what Britain is today], which are on the
head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!” And
where does the wine come from? The wine of the fornication of Babylon
the Great, the mother of harlots. “Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and
strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm,
as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with
the hand” (Isa. 28:1-2). So God is showing here He’s going to give His
punishment. This is a warning.
“The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under
feet:…” And if you want to know a country that is totally drunken on
it’s own socialistic, atheistic, God-rejecting philosophy, it is Britain.
Just like it says here. “And the glorious beauty, which is on
the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower [that’s what’s
happening], and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when
he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.”
What he thinks he has is gone before he really has the time to take
advantage of it. “In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown
of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people…” (vs.
3-5). Now this can apply to Israel and Ephraim after they go into
captivity when they come back. But it also applies to the Church
today, which we are the residue of people, the remnant that God is working
with, which hold and preserve His word and His truth. And I want you
to understand what a fantastic responsibility it is for us to have knowledge
and understanding of the truth of God. And that we have the whole
Bible, and that the real key to understanding the Bible is the Sabbath and
holy days, and the fantastic plan that God has as revealed through the Feast
of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day is the awesome great work of God,
which is yet to come, which is the greater harvest. So it’s a
fantastic thing that’s going to happen.
“And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for
strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. But they also have
erred through wine, and through strong drink [and strong drink is occultism]
are [they] out of the way [they are out of the way of God]; the priest and
the prophet have erred through strong drink…”, which is occultism and the
ecumenical movement that is going on today right before our very eyes.
Just this last year the Jesuits have been able to bring into line more of
the Lutheran denomination. They have split the Presbyterians.
They have split the Baptists. They have the Methodists in confusion,
and so all roads are leading to Rome. Now you need to grasp that.
You need to understand how important it is for us to understand the word of
God. Now let’s go on. “…They are swallowed up of wine, they are
out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in
judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so
that there is no place clean” (vs. 6-8). In other words
you’re not going to find God in any of these religions anymore. No
way. Just like we read earlier, what they have is being taken from
them.
Now verse 9, in the midst of all of this. This is important to
understand. In the middle of all of this, here we sit. Now what
are we going to do? What is our responsibility? What does God
expect of us? Just to sit here and go along and get along, and oh
hum-de-dum? No. God has laid upon us a great responsibility and
a fantastic opportunity that He has not given other people in other ages.
Now that’s something to understand brethren. That’s something to
really grasp.
Now let’s read it here beginning in verse 9. “Whom shall He teach
knowledge [because God wants to teach knowledge]? And whom shall He
make to understand doctrine?” And doctrine then is the true teachings
of the Bible. And you have to have understanding. You know, just
like in the series I did on how to have a relationship with God. Do
you have a legal relationship with Him, and it’s just based on law? Or
do you have a loving relationship with Him? That is the key. If
you have a loving relationship, there’s no question you’re going to keep His
commandments. But God is going to reciprocate and do something more
for you. Now you think about all of those Churches of God who have a
legal law relationship with God and they are just command and control, and
then you will understand why they have been lacking in understanding because
they haven’t come to the point of full conversion of loving God with all
their hearts and mind and soul and being. That’s not to say they are
not converted. That’s not to say they are not the people of God.
They are. But you can read in Revelation 2 and 3 about the seven
churches there. There are different attitudes, and there are different
degrees of things, and there are different sins and problems in the
different Churches of God.
Now let’s go on. Have to “…understand doctrine? Them that are
weaned from the milk [in other words, you have grown beyond just the milk of
the word], and drawn from the breasts.” Now you’re ready for
food. And as Paul says, strong meat. And that is deep
understanding of the word of God. Now here’s how it comes. And
this is how it is over a period of time, that you grow in, that you develop
in. And this is why you can read and study one scripture one time, and
come back and read and study it another time and learn something new out of
the very same scripture, and come back again another time and learn
something else out of the very same scripture, because we are talking about
the inspiration of God with His word, which is deep. And He’s created
it this way. He’s inspired it to be written this way for two purposes.
- So those that truly seek God can understand.
- For those who just have a religion and are not seeking God that they
won’t understand. And that is a marvelous miracle indeed.
Now let’s read it here. “For precept must be upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little [that’s why you have to put it all together, see]: for with
stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people” (vs.
10-11). So, only those who fit verse 9 and 10 are the ones who are
going to understand. All the rest, all the rest, they won’t
understand. And they will become confused the more and more that they
reject God, and go into the world and accept the ways of the world, the more
confused they become and the less understanding they have.
Now notice, “To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye
may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing…” Now this is
talking about God’s plan, the gospel, that we are weary and we can rest in
Christ. And we need refreshing as Peter said there, “When the times of
refreshing shall come from the Lord, the restitution of all things”, so this
is even getting into a millennial setting. “…Yet they would not hear”
(vs. 12). And refusing to hear is a choice. You turn off your
ears. You turn off your mind, and you turn off your heart. So
here’s what happens to those who do. “But the word of the LORD was
upon them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken” (vs. 12-13).
Now you need to understand something very important. Go back to the
time when Moses came down off the mountain. Remember, he was carrying
the two tablets and Ten Commandments written with the finger of God?
And he came down and saw all the children of Israel in their orgies dancing
around the golden calf. And Moses said, “All those on the Lord’s side come
to me.” And you know what happened to the rest of them. The
earth opened up and crushed them. Now we need to understand something.
Either we are on the Lord’s side, or we’re on Satan’s side. Now there
may be a little bit of middle ground somewhere along the way, but what’s
going to happen with the middle ground when the earth opens up? You’re
going to fall in. May be taken and snared.
Now let’s look at another scripture which is very important. Let’s
come back here to Psalm 119. And here is what it needs to be with us.
And brethren, this is what we need to be busy doing. Now God is going
to take care of the world. God is going to work out His plan according
to His time. God is going to work with His Church according to the way
that He works with His Church and those that will love Him and serve Him.
And God is going to have to do the opening of the doors and do the means by
which things can be done, but we have to get ourselves ready and we have to
know and understand the word of God. That’s what’s important.
And one of the things that is so important for us to be doing right now is
to let God, with His Spirit perfect us. Let God help us to understand
His word and to grow in that knowledge with such love and conviction that
nothing can separate us from God.
Now let’s read it here. Psalm 119:17, “Deal bountifully with Thy
servant, that
I may live, and keep Thy word. Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold
wondrous things out of Thy law” (Psa. 119:17-18). Because it comes
precept upon precept, and line upon line, and here a little and there a
little. It has to be put together, see. So we’re going to ask
God to open our eyes to see wondrous things out of His word. At the
time that David was inspired with this it was just the law and then later
the prophets came. But now we can say, “Oh God, open our eyes to
understand wondrous and deep things out of Your word.”
Let’s come to 1 Corinthians 2 now and let’s see how the apostle Paul shows
that this is done. And let’s also understand this. It’s not
because of any great intellectual ability that we have as individuals, see.
Because intelligence is not going to make it. It’s not because we have
learned so many things. Because knowledge without the love of God is,
how shall we say…it’s not worthless, but it doesn’t act. It produces
nothing. It is a dead knowledge. So we need living knowledge,
and living understanding that comes with actively seeking Gods Spirit and
His word and His way. Now let’s pick it up here in verse 9. “But
as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love
Him.” See, it’s not for those who appropriate His name. It’s not
for those who just have a legal relationship with God, as the Pharisees did.
They had a legal relationship. It is for those who love God.
Those are the ones who are going to understand.
Now notice, verse 10. “But God hath revealed them unto us by
His Spirit…” So it’s not just the words that are written. That’s
profound and important, but the missing ingredient is the Holy Spirit of God
which gives understanding. So God reveals it by His Spirit.
“…For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
And the truth is brethren, that the holy days of God reveal the deep things
of God. And as we will see with day seven and eight when we come to
it, how fantastic that God’s plan is on how He’s going to save the vast
majority of all people that have ever been born. “For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?” In other
words, man has intellect. Man has knowledge. Man has
understanding, because God put the spirit of man in him. Now then, the
knowledge of the spirit of man is not sufficient to understand the things of
God. So then, “Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God [that is, by the Spirit of God]. Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; what we might
know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also
we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
[Spirit] Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual
[things].” Now that’s what we’re going to do today.
Let’s come to the gospel of John and let’s see that in the gospel of John
we have all of the holy days laid out, just about every one of them.
Let’s begin right in chapter 1 and we’ll do an overview and then we’ll come
back to John 7 which shows how Jesus kept the Feast of Tabernacles, and
we’ll learn things out of John 7. But let’s begin right here in verse
1. And this is profound, and this is one of the major important
things. And the reason that God inspired John to write his gospel
differently from the synoptic, or the three gospels of Matthew, Mark, and
Luke is because this fills in the missing gaps. And also it’s
important and profound to know and understand that John was the last one to
write, so therefore it’s significant that he keys his gospel on the
framework of the holy days. And so this is very important for us to
grasp.
Now verse 1, and this is something you should memorize. “In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Now what’s so important is this. Is that the Greek reveals that Christ was
not a God, but He was God in the fullest extent of it. Not one who was
created, because He was in the beginning. And since all things were
created by Jesus Christ, if He’s a created being then He had to create
Himself. So here shows that there are two, the Father and the Son.
And that is profound basic understanding never, never ever to move away
from. Now notice, “…and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by Him;…” That means all
things came into existence through Him. “…And without Him was not any
thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light
of men” (John 1:1-4).
Now come over here to verse 14, and we have right in the beginning of the
gospel of John the first understanding concerning the feasts of God.
Now in the King James it’s not really brought out like it should be, but
let’s read it. “And the word was made flesh…” Now we’ve gone through
this in the series on Hebrews so I’m not going to dwell on it and spend a
lot of time on it, just to touch base here and understand it, you see.
“…And dwelt among us…” And dwelt means tabernacled. And you go back
and you understand all about the Feast of Tabernacles is that God has always
wanted to dwell with His people, but beginning with Adam and Eve and later
on the children of Israel, they all said, “No we don’t want God, we want our
way. And we would rather have a man talk to us.” So that’s why
God became a man and was made flesh and dwelt among them, that is
temporarily lived and tabernacled among them. So here is the first
understanding of the feast days of God.
Now let’s continue on. Let’s come over here to chapter 2.
Chapter 2 we have the Passover. And what does Jesus do? He comes
up to the temple and He cleanses it. He gets rid of all the carnality.
He gets rid of all of the merchandising, because you see, once things get
locked into an institutional and cultural religion then they become corrupt
and they are satisfied in their ways. So Christ comes and turns over the
moneychanger’s tables, drives out all of the animals. Yes, there were
to be animal sacrifices but they were extorting the people with high prices
for that. They were giving a low exchange rate for foreign currencies
because they had to use temple money to buy the sacrifices. And so
they lost the whole purpose of coming to God to offer a sacrifice from the
heart. To come and pray to God and be at His temple. So Christ
had to come and cleanse it. And that’s the appropriate place for
Him to begin His ministry.
Now let’s notice verse 16. “And said unto them that sold doves, Take
these things hence; and make not My Father’s house an house of merchandise.”
Brethren and all ministers, understand that. God does not want His way
to become a human business. Let’s go on. “And His disciples
remembered that it was written, the zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up”
(John 2:16-17).
Ok, now let’s come over to verse 23. “Now when He was in Jerusalem at
the passover, in the feast day…” Now you see, right at the beginning
of His ministry, when does He start? Passover and Feast of Unleavened
Bread. Isn’t that a perfect thing to do? To come in and unleaven
the temple area of the true spiritual corruption? Yes. Then He
did the miracles. “…Many believed in His name, when they saw the
miracles which He did. But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them,
because He knew all men…”, because He was Creator, and He knew that
all men have the law of sin and death in them. So He’s not going to
commit Himself to them in a sense that He’s going to learn something from
them. No man is going to teach God anything. God is going to
teach them. That’s why He didn’t commit Himself to them. “And
needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what was in man” (vs.
23-25).
Ok, then we come to chapter 3. And we have here about being born
again into the Kingdom of God. Now let’s just read one verse here,
verse 6. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). So anyone who says they’re
born again, they have got to be a spirit being and have them try the walking
through the wall test. And of course they won’t be able to do it, see.
You are born again at the resurrection. The resurrection is pictured
by what? Pentecost. To be a spirit being and live in the Kingdom
of God you have to be born of the Spirit. So here we have this already
talking about the holy days, part of the holy days.
Now come over here to verse 13 where John writes in a parenthetical
statement, “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down
from heaven, even
the Son of man which is in heaven.” When was He ascended to be accepted
of God the Father? On the Wave Sheaf offering day, which is the first
day of the count to Pentecost, correct? Yes. So there we have
it.
Then he talks about here, verse 16. And verse 16 is one little verse,
which is an over-arching statement of the whole character and love and plan
and purpose of God. Let’s read it. “For God so love the world…”
Now He is capable of that. We’re not, but God is. “…That
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.” And of course then how that verse
is fulfilled is pictured by the holy days.
Now let’s come to chapter 4. Jesus comes to Samaria, which is a type
of going to the Gentiles. He tells the woman here in verse 23, and he
gives a very important thing which is fundamental in our worship and
understanding of the word of God. “But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit:
and they that worship Him must [now that means it’s obligatory, it’s
mandatory to] worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
And this means properly understanding the word of God, as we have seen.
This means a humble and contrite heart being filled with God’s Spirit, and
worshipping Him from your heart. That’s why I did the series on how to
have a relationship with God, or fellowship with God. The true
fellowship of God, you see.
Now let’s come down here to verse 31. “In the mean while His
disciples prayed [begged, or beseeched] Him, saying, Master, eat. But
He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore
said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought Him aught to
eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent
Me…” Now we’ll come back to the will of God a little later on, because all
the way through the book of John Christ talks about the will of God, and
what is important with that, you see. And as I’ve mentioned before,
when we become converted we don’t give up our will. Our will is
converted so that we take the will of God and it becomes our will by choice.
Now let’s continue on. “…My meat is to do the will of Him that sent
Me, and to finish His work” (vs. 31-34). Now that goes right up to the
time of the crucifixion when Christ uttered the last words, “It is
finished.” That comes right up to the time then when it clear out into
what? The fulfillment of the Last Great Day when it is finished.
And as we saw yesterday Christ said, “I am the beginning and the ending, the
first and the last.” So this goes all the way out to the full
completion of the great spiritual work of God and the fulfilling of His plan
as revealed in His holy days.
“Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?
Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they
are white already to harvest” (vs. 35). Now this is an allusion or a
pointing toward Pentecost of the firstfruit harvest, because four months to
the harvest would put it way in the middle of the summer when then all of
the other harvests of the different fruits and things would be coming on.
So He’s talking here of the white to the harvest is the barley harvest,
which then pictures the firstfruits and Pentecost. So this is pointing
toward Pentecost.
“And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”
Now who’s the one that sows? Well as we saw yesterday in the
parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, what? Christ is the sower. So that
not only may Christ rejoice, but also the laborers that He sends into the
harvest, that they may rejoice when? At the resurrection. “And
herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent
you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour:…” Now I want you to
understand something. Now not only does that apply to preaching the
gospel, but it applies to the word of God. You have in your hands what
other people have labored on, and you are reaping the benefit and blessing
of it, as well as the understanding of it. So you see, that’s why it’s
so important that we really apply ourselves to understanding the word of
God, because others have labored, others have died, have been martyred so
that we can have the word of God today. Now let’s go on. “…Other men
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours” (vs. 36-37). So quite
a fantastic thing, isn’t it? So here not only does it talk about
picturing Pentecost and the first harvest, but it goes on and it expands out
the whole purpose of God. And Christ is that true foundation upon
which everything is built (1 Corinthians 3).
Now let’s go on. Let’s come to chapter 5. Chapter 5 is also
another very important thing for us to understand. “After this there
was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.” (John 5:1) Now
this doesn’t tell us what feast it is but from the context of the chapter we
are talking about the fall festival season and relating to also the first
resurrection unto life, which is Pentecost, and then he is talking about the
judgment when all will hear the voice of God. Now, how is it going to
be that people are going to hear the voice of God unless it’s referring to
the Last Great Day? So this could be referring to the Last Great Day.
It doesn’t say what it is, but it has to be at that time.
Let’s come over here and see this. Let’s come over here to verse 24,
and we get the context of it. Now we’ve already gone through the first
part of it showing that it doesn’t mean that Jesus broke the Sabbath, so we
won’t belabor the point here. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me [that is God the Father],
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation…” So this
then reveals when that happens you’re talking about Passover, because you
have your sins forgiven. You’re talking about the Days of Unleavened
Bread, because you have your sins removed and the imputed righteousness of
Christ. You’re talking about the first resurrection of Pentecost.
“…Not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Verily, verily…”, now He says it again, “…I say unto you, The hour is
coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God:
and they that hear shall live” (vs. 24-25). So we have the first
resurrection. So we have Pentecost involved.
We have the second resurrection. We have the Last Great Day involved.
We also have, as we will see, the second part of the second resurrection,
which is judgment unto death, or condemnation. Now let’s read on.
“For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have
life in Himself; and hath given Him authority to execute judgment also…” And
judgment is now on the house of God. And judgment will be upon all of
those who come into the Kingdom of God during the Millennium. That is
their time of judgment. “…Also, because He is the Son of man.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the
graves…” (vs. 26-28). So we have first resurrection. We have
second resurrection. And we have the two parts of the second
resurrection.
Now let’s come to verse 29. “And [they] shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of damnation [or judgment or condemnation].” Now
were do we find that? Well, we read that in Revelation 20, didn’t we?
First resurrection, judgment is given to them, correct? Upon them the
second death has no power but the rest of the dead, which will hear the
voice of the Son of God because all that are in the graves shall come forth.
That is the second resurrection.
Now let’s come to chapter 6. See, and what I want you to understand
is this: in every single chapter there is a reference made either to a
holy day specifically, or the message entails its fulfillment through one of
the holy days. Because it’s precept upon precept, line upon line, and
here a little and there a little. And the whole point of all of this
is that you cannot possibly understand the gospels of Christ or the Bible or
the epistles of Paul or the book of Revelation unless you understand the
holy days. Because you see, it’s kind of like a building.
Whenever a building is built first of all you have to have the foundation.
That is Christ. Then you have to have the framing. Now in the
case of a single family home, that can be either wood or it can be steel.
Now in the case of a commercial building they have big steel beams on which
they build these buildings and raise them way high in the air if necessary.
Now those buildings cannot stand without the framing. But one thing
that is important, just like the holy days. For those who don’t
understand that the holy days are the framework and the plan of God, just
like framing, you can’t see it unless you’re looking for it and understand
where it is, because it’s all covered over with other things. So
unless you look deeply for it and understand the word of God, you’re not
going to find it.
Let’s continue on, John 6:4. “And the passover, a feast of the Jews,
was [at hand] nigh.” Well the Jews were the only ones keeping the
feasts of God. And Christ kept them according to the way that they
should be. So this doesn’t mean the Gentiles are not required to keep
it because we see a little later on that even proselytes came up to worship
in the temple and they wanted to know about Christ. So that argument
is invalid. And then He shows very profoundly, that God can provide,
and that’s where He fed the 5000, He can provide from virtually nothing,
everything that you need.
Now then we come over here to verse 26, and let’s learn the lesson here.
Here’s a profound lesson for us. “Jesus answered them and said,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek Me, not because ye saw the miracles,
but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for
the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto [eternal]
everlasting life…” And what we are doing here brethren is laboring for the
meat, or the food, the spiritual food that is unto eternal life.
“…Which the Son of man shall give unto you: for Him hath God the Father
sealed. Then said they unto Him, What shall we do, that we might work
the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work
of God, that ye believe [in] on Him Whom He hath sent” (vs. 26-29).
And God then, is going to do the work in you.
Now you see, what we do, even though it is working for God, should not be
properly called “The Work of God”, because the more important thing is the
work of God in each one of us in building the character of God, the love of
God, the truth of God, to have His words written in our hearts, and our
minds, and our inward parts. That is the whole and perfect word of God.
So then He gives the lesson concerning the Passover, that He is the true
bread which comes down out of heaven. And that we have to eat His
flesh and drink His blood which are the symbols of the Passover.
Now verse 57, and here’s the full meaning of the Passover. “As the
living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that [the one
who] eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.” So there’s the whole
profound lesson of the Passover brethren. How can you separate the
holy days from the gospel of Jesus Christ? You cannot.
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