24-0412A_THE IDENTIFED CHRIST IN ALL AGES PT-19 (SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON)

2Ki 17:1  In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 

2Ki 17:2  And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 

2Ki 17:3  Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 

2Ki 17:4  And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 

2Ki 17:5  Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 

2Ki 17:6  In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 

2Ki 17:7  For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 

Amo 8:11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 

Amo 8:12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 

Joh 1:10  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 
Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 

Joh 14:17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 
Joh 14:18  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 
Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 
Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 

*NOW, WE ALL KNOW, WE ARE VERY AWARE, THAT THERE IS A GREAT SPIRITUAL DROUGHT IN THE LAND TODAY…

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

     Now, we all know, we are very aware, that there is a great spiritual drought in the land today, spiritually speaking. And, you know, that was predicted by the prophets, just before the second Coming of Christ would be, said, "There will come a famine in the land, and it won't be for bread alone, but for the hearing of the Word of God." And that day is now, "hearing the true Word of God." Now, this types the natural drought with the spiritual.

     35  Sin and unbelief, by false teachers and modernists in the church, had brought the place to this coming, oncoming judgment. Then they had turned from God's Word and His prophet, to a modern theological terms of the Word.
 
*ELIJAH HAD A SECRET PLACE PROVIDED BY GOD HIMSELF.

       37   Now, but Elijah, during this time, had a secret place that God had ordained for him to go to…..Elijah had a secret place provided by God Himself. Now, the church never provided it for him, the king never provided it for him, he didn't provide hisself, but God provided a secret place for Elijah to be fed all the time during the drought, where his food was provided day by day. He didn't need to wonder what's going to happen tomorrow or wonder if the supply run out. God said, "I have commanded the ravens and they'll feed you." What a wonderful thing, a type of our secret place in Christ.
 
*THE WORD IS IN THE CHURCH, IN THE PERSON.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  70      Now do you see where I'm trying to get to? I spoke with you pretty plain this morning. Don't you see the authority of the living God in the living Church, the Bride? The sick are healed, the dead are raised up, the cripples walk, the blind see, the Gospel goes forth in Its power, for the Message and the messenger are the same. The Word is in the Church, in the person.

71    The Word of God was in Elijah when he walked up there with THUS SAITH THE LORD, and said, "It isn't going to rain." That wasn't Elijah; that was God in Elijah.
 
*THE MESSENGER, THE MESSAGE--THE MESSAGE, AND THE WORD, WAS EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  91      Now, we find out that Elijah could say that because the Message of the hour and the Word of God... The messenger, the Message--the Message, and the Word, was exactly the same thing. The prophet, the Word, the Message; messenger, Message, and Message, was the same. Jesus said, "If I do not the works that's written of Me, then don't believe Me." That's good. Any man and his message is one.

92    That's why today that they do not believe in doing the works of God, because they do not accept the Message of God. They don't believe the Message.

93    But those who believe God's hour that we're living in, these things are hidden Food. Just think, God has so hid It that they look right at It and don't see It. The same way that Elijah blinded the Syrian army. The same way that God blinds the unbeliever from the true genuine Food of the child, the believer.
 
*WHAT THEY CALLED NOAH, "A FANATIC," BUILDING AN ARK, HIS EYES WERE OPEN TO THE WORD OF GOD AND THE PROMISE.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  94      What they called Noah, "a fanatic," building an ark, his eyes were open to the Word of God and the promise. The very thing that they called fanaticism, saved Noah and his family. See, the very same thing. The thing that people laugh at, is the thing that we pray for. The thing that people calls "crazy," we call "Great!" What the world calls "great," God calls "foolish." And what the world calls "foolish," God calls "Great!" It's just exactly the contrast between the Right and wrong. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

…*THE CHURCH IS ALREADY CALLED OUT, THE BRIDE IS ALREADY CHOSEN…..ALREADY WAITING, EATING THE FOOD OF GOD, ENJOYING THE BLESSINGS OF GOD.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  95      Remember, he went into his secret place by the plan of God, by the call of God, and the Word of God. Elijah entered into his secret place by God's foreknowledge (plan), and the call upon his life, and according to the Word. If that ain't the way we entered, I don't know why we get there.

96    And notice, before the drought begin, Elijah went into this place of secret for his living. A very type of before the judgment starts to strike the earth, the Church is already called out, the Bride is already chosen, and just waiting before the judgment strikes. Already waiting, eating the Food of God, enjoying the blessings of God. Any man in his normal mind knows that we're headed straight, we're right in the hour of judgment.

*BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WE GOT HIDDEN FOOD, SPIRITUAL FOOD, THAT WE'RE LIVING ON THE GOODNESS AND MERCY OF THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST IN THESE LAST DAYS…

 SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  121      But thanks be to God, we got hidden Food, spiritual Food, that we're living on the goodness and mercy of the revelation of Jesus Christ in these last days, vindicating Himself among His people. Amen! They went in. Elijah went in before the drought set in. Thank God for being in before the judgment sets in. Now is a time of coming out and going in, getting out of those organizations and getting into Christ, a coming-out and going-in time for all true believers.

122    Then he was called, and stayed in there. Remember, he never left that brook until God called him.

*AND AFTER THE DROUGHT WAS ABOUT OVER, HE CALLED HIM OUT OF THERE, DOWN TO A WIDOW'S HOUSE… HE CALLED TO THIS WIDOW. 

123    And after the drought was about over, He called him out of there, down to a widow's house. Notice, He called to this widow. And this widow had not associated herself with the unbelievers; took the mark of the beast during the drought. So He called her out to... called Elijah to sustain this widow. They just had one little cake, one little thing she was holding onto. And Elijah said, "Give that to me, first. For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, that barrel will not go empty neither will the cruse run dry, until the day that the Lord God sends rain upon the earth." Putting God first, His Word first!

*EVERY TIME SHE WENT AFTER MEAL, THERE WAS MEAL IN THE BARREL… SO IS IT TODAY, THAT THE BREAD OF LIFE THAT THE CHILDREN EAT ON, FOLLOWS THE MESSAGE OF GOD, TO SUSTAIN THEM DURING THE TIME OF THE DROUGHT.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  124      Notice, there was meal in the barrel. Every time she went after meal, there was meal in the barrel. There was oil in the cruse, every time she went for it. Why? Meal represented Christ in the meal-offering. The burrs had to be set just right, to grind every one of them. Every burr of this meal exactly the same, showing that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That was the Word, the Bread of Life following the message, to vindicate the Word.

125    So is it today, friends. So is it today, that the Bread of Life that the children eat on, follows the Message of God, to sustain them during the time of the drought. What if He stood in our presence today? What if He stood in our presence right now? He would act and do just exactly like He done the days when He was in flesh here on the earth. The Bride is part of the Husband, the Church is the same as Christ. "The works that I do shall you do also." And it is the Word that done it. He told us that the things that He did that we would do also.
*IF THE WORD IS IN US AND HAS COME TO US, AS IT DID ELIJAH IN THAT DAY, IT'LL DO THE SAME THING THAT HE DID, HE WOULD FEED ON THE SECRET THINGS OF GOD WHICH IS HID FROM THE WORLD.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  126      We notice here again, if the Word is in us and has come to us, as It did Elijah in that day, It'll do the same thing that he did, he would feed on the secret Things of God which is hid from the world. Oh! Again, it makes the Message and the messenger as one. The spiritual Food is ready, and It's in the season now. And each one of you can have this Food if you wish It, if you are willing to steal away from all of the unbelief of this hour, if you are ready to come into Christ, come into His promise.

And remember His promises, in Malachi 4, Luke 17:30, also in Saint John 14:12, and how many more Scriptures, of telling, Joel 2:38, and all that He would do, or 2:28, rather, what He would do in these last days. And how the prophet said that it'd be Light in these last days, how It would work, what It would do, all the Scriptures pointing to this last days. And that is Christ! If you can hide away in That now, in that secret Place, you can eat and see the goodness and mercy of God. If you're sick, there is healing there.

*IT'S NOT THE CHURCH, SO CALLS, FOOD. IT'S THE BRIDE FOOD. IT'S SPIRITUAL FOOD IN SEASON.

SPIRITUAL.FOOD.IN.DUE.SEASON_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-7  SUNDAY_  65-0718E

  129      "It's not meet to take the children's bread and give it to dogs." Didn't Jesus say the same thing to the Syrophenician women? He was sent to His Own. That is right. And that's who He come... He never went to the Gentiles.

130    And now today He visits the Gentiles in their time, and it's not meet...
131    You say, "Why is it that the Message don't go out in these great big places, these big crusades, like amongst the denominations?"

132    It's not their Food. It's not the church, so calls, Food. It's the Bride Food. It's spiritual Food in season. It would make them sick at their stomach. It's too rich for them. See? See? You--you--you can't do it. But, for the children, It's Bread, It's Life, It's Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

*THE CHURCH, THE TRUE BELIEVER, THE BODY OF BELIEVERS, HAS ACCESS TO FOOD, SPIRITUAL FOOD…

135    Truly, Lord, His Food was to do the will of God, to see the works of God made manifest in His hour. He was there to see that it was done. "I do nothing except My Father shows Me first. What the Father shows Me, that I do."

136    And, Father, so is it today., that the nominals know nothing about. The world knows The Church, the true believer, the Body of believers, has access to Food, spiritual Food nothing of this Food, Father. But Your Church, Your people, the Bride of Your Son, loves It.

137    We have access to healing of our bodies when the doctors has failed. We have access to this. It's one of the Foods of God, that He gave to His Church, and promised it in the last day to His believing children. And, Father, help us to be believing children, for all things are possible to the believers. Grant it, Dear God. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

*SO IF YOUR PHYSICAL BODY NEEDS FOOD EACH DAY AND DRINK EACH DAY TO SURVIVE, YOUR SPIRITUAL BODY NEEDS SPIRITUAL FOOD

COMMUNION_ JEFF IN_ 62-0204

96    Now, our bodies need food and drink each day to survive, our physical body. If we don't take food each day and drink, then our body weakens. There's something in us that we must have food. One day's food will not last for the next day. You've got to have food each day to strengthen your mortal being. You can live over, but you're weaker. And the second day, you're still weaker. And the third day, you're getting tremendous weak.

Well, that's what many times that we do in the spiritual realm. You see, each day we've got to commune with Christ. We've got to talk to Him each day. We've got to settle it with Him each day. Paul said, "I die each day. (See?) Each day, I die; yet I live, not me but Christ lives in me." So if your physical body needs food each day and drink each day to survive, your spiritual body needs spiritual Food and communion with the Lord each day to survive. Yes.

Jesus said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." So each day we've got to study the Bible. Some people doesn't study It at all. Some picks It up every two or three times a year. But a real, real believer that's really spiritually built up, he reads his Bible every day and talks to the Lord. That's right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He has to. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

*THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE CHURCH TODAY, IT'S ANEMIA. BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GETTING ENOUGH SPIRITUAL FOOD.

THE.POWER.OF.DECISION_  CHICAGO.IL  FRIDAY_  55-1007

E-50   That's what's the matter with the Church today, it's anemia. Because they're not getting enough spiritual food. If they got the Bible, brother, it would put the Blood of Christ into the veins of the believer. New life, Life comes from the Blood. Amen. The anemia condition of the Church, pitiful, pale cheeked, my, my. We need a transfusion to start us off. Amen.

JEZEBEL.RELIGION_  MIDDLETOWN.OH  V-6 N-14  SUNDAY_  61-0319

100    When God sends forth a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away.

He ordained the ravens, His servants. Bless them birds, His servants, that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during the time of his--his isolation from the church. The ravens brought him flesh and bread at morning, and flesh and bread in the evening, and he drank from the little fountain while the rest of them down there were doing without any spiritual food and water.

*THE ONLY PLACE SPIRITUAL FOOD IS GIVEN OUT IS IN THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.

 ISRAEL.AND.THE.CHURCH.1_  JEFF.IN  IC 1-34  WEDNESDAY_  53-0325

182   …Perfect of the church today, the only place spiritual Food is given out is in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. You can go take some old church creed and recite a few apostles' creeds, and whatever you want to, but, brother, the Spirit lays in the borned again church of the living God, is the only where there's Food. And them Jews is going to recognize that one of these days, and they're coming.

 

 1Pe 1:1  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 

1Pe 1:2  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 

1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

1Pe 1:4  To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 

1Pe 1:6  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 

1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 

1Pe 1:8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 

1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 

1Pe 1:10  Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 

1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 

1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. 

1Pe 1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 

1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 

1Pe 1:15  But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 

1Pe 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 

1Pe 1:17  And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: 

1Pe 1:18  Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 

1Pe 1:19  But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 

1Pe 1:20  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 

1Pe 1:21  Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 

1Pe 1:22  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 

1Pe 1:23  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 

1Pe 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 

1Pe 1:25  But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.