/ f l We were told long ago that the time would come when sound doctrine could not be endured. That time has arrived, a day of itching ears in stead of heartburn. Church-members have no ap petite for the Bread of Heaven on Sunday because they have fed on the fleshpots of Egypt all week. Like the Israelites, they prefer garlic to glory and melons to miracles. We cannot gorge ourselves on the garbage of radio and television and magazine filth and sit pop-eyed admiring popular entertain ers who make a joke of marriage to satisfy their lust, and have any taste for the Bread of God. I am not surprised that multitudes do not appreciate q o m e can imagine no greater disaster ^ than to lose their crowd. Many a preacher would suffer a nervous breakdown if his congrega tion dwindled. Yet the Prince o f Preachers, the Son of God, preached His crowd away. Before He began His sermon, they wanted to make Him king; when He finished, He asked His twelve disciples, “Will ye also go away?” The question is asked: Can a man be true to God’s message and hold his crowd today? This I know: my Lord lost the multitude but He never lowered His message. He declared Himself to be the Bread of Life. He said, “ Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.” That was too much for His listeners. They said, “ This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” Our Lord did not tone down His sermon when they said that. He declared that no man could come unto Him except it were given unto him of the Father. From that time many of His disciples went away and walked no more with Him. They simply could not take that kind of preaching. He turned to His disciples and asked, “Will ye also go away?” Peter answered with that other confession of his, not so well-known, but equally interesting: “ Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we be lieve and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” The kind of preaching our Lord did in this sixth chapter of John will thin a crowd today. Let any minister tell his Sunday morning congregation that Jesus is not only our Saviour but our Sus tenance, our Bread, Meat and Drink; that the Pass- over lamb was not only slain and its blood applied but that its flesh was eaten; that it is a mockery to sing, “ Break Thou The Bread of Life” or go through the Lord’s Supper with all it implies, while we feed on trash and scarcely open the Word of God; that we must feed on the Living Christ for every need and that if He is not our meat and drink we have no life in us . . . let any minister dwell on that and his listeners will say, “ This is an hard saying . . . I’m going over to the other church and hear Dr. Soundingbrass give book reviews.” m i n i s t e r s
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