like bread. It is food both for the Queen and the paujier. So is it with Christ. He is just the Saviour that meets the wants of every class. — Bread is food that we need daily. Other kinds of food we take, perhaps, only occasionally. But we want bread every morning and evening in our lives. So is it with Christ. There is no day in our lives but w^e need His blood. His righteousness, His intercession, and His grace. — Well may He be called, " The bread of life !"
Do we know anything of spiritual hunger? Do we feel anything of craving and emptiness in conscience, heart, and affections ? Let us distinctly understand that Christ alone can relieve and supply us, and that it is His office to relieve. We must come to Him by faith. We must believe on Him, and commit our souls into His hands. So coming. He pledges His royal word we shall find lasting satisfaction both for time and eternity. — It is Avritten, — " He that cometh unto me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
We have, secondly, in these verses, a saying of Christ about those loho come to Him. We read that Jesus said, — " Hira that cometh to me I will in nowise cast out."
What does "coming" mean? It means that movement of the soul which takes place when a man, feeling his sins, and finding out that he cannot save himself, hears of Christ, applies to Christ, trusts in Christ, lays hold on Christ, and leans all his weight on Christ for salvation. When this happens, a man is said, in Scripture language, to " come" to Christ.
What did our Lord mean by saying, — " I will in no- wise cast him out"? He meant that He will not refuse to save any on6 who comes to Hira, no matter what he may have been. His past sins may have been very great. His present weakness and infirmity may be very great. But does he come to Christ by faith ? Then Christ ^^'ill receive him graciously, pardon him freely,