I take a step above my text, using it as a ladder to mount to a higher truth. If it brings a curse on a man to withhold the bread which perishes, what a weight of curse will fall on that man who withholds the bread of eternal life. If the people will curse the man who keeps back the bread which merely sustains the body, what will be the scornful condemnation which will overwhelm the soul of him who deals deceitfully with the bread of eternal life? That seems to me to be a fair deduction from the text, and at that truth we will aim this morning.

1. First, I will attempt to show the ways in which the bread of life may be withheld from the people, and the curse which will follow.

2. Secondly, I will try to depict the blessedness of the man who "gives it away," to the people.