The content explores the concept of "daily bread" from both a literal and spiritual perspective, drawing parallels between the Israelites' sustenance in the wilderness and Jesus' teachings on spiritual nourishment, ultimately emphasizing trust in God for both physical and eternal needs.
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now they left elim and journeyed on into
the sin wilderness
between elim and mount sinai arriving
there on the 15th day of the second
month after leaving egypt
and there the people spoke bitterly
against moses and aaron
oh that we were back in egypt they moaned
moaned
and that the lord had killed us there
for there we had plenty to eat
but now you have brought us into this
wilderness to kill us by starvation
then the lord said to moses look i am
going to rain down food from heaven for
them everyone can go out each day and
gather as much food as he wishes
and i will test them in this
to see whether they will follow my
instructions or not
tell them to gather twice as much as
usual on the sixth day of each week
then moses and aaron called a meeting of
all the people of israel and told them
this evening you will realize that it
was the lord who brought you out of the
land of egypt
and in the morning you will see more of
his glory
for he has heard your complaints against him
him
for you aren't really complaining
against us
who are we
the lord will give you meat to eat each
evening and bread each morning
come now before jehovah and hear his
reply to your complaints
so aaron called them together and
suddenly out of the wilderness from
within the guiding cloud there appeared
the awesome glory of jehovah
and jehovah said to moses i have heard
their complaints tell them
in the evening you will have meat and in
the morning you will be stuffed with
bread and you shall know that i am
jehovah your god
that evening vast numbers of quail
arrived and covered the camp and in the
morning the desert all around the camp
was wet with dew
and when the dew disappeared later in
the morning it left tiny flakes of
something so small as horfrost on the ground
ground
and when the people of israel saw it
they asked each other what is it
and moses told them it is the food
jehovah has given you to eat
and jehovah has said that everyone
should gather as much as is needed for
his household about three quarts for
each person in his home
so the people of israel went out and
gathered it
and when they poured it into a
three-quart measure there was just
enough for everyone
three quarts apiece those who gathered a
lot had nothing left over and those who
gathered a little had no lack
each home had just enough and moses told
them don't leave it overnight
but of course some of them wouldn't
listen and left it until the morning
and when they looked it was full of
maggots and had a terrible smell
and moses was very angry with them
so they gathered the food morning by
morning each home according to its need
and when the sun became hot on the
ground the food melted and disappeared
and on the sixth day they gathered twice
as much as usual six quarts instead of three
three
and then the leaders of the people came
and asked moses why this had been
commanded them
and he told them because the lord has
appointed tomorrow as a day of
seriousness and rest
a holy sabbath to the lord when we must
refrain from doing our daily tasks
so cook as much as you want to today and
keep what is left overnight
and the next morning the food was
wholesome and good without maggots or smell
smell
and moses said this is your food for
today for today is the sabbath to
jehovah and there will be no food on the
ground today
gather the food for six days but the
seventh is a sabbath and there will be
none there for you on that day but some
of the people went out anyway to gather food
food
even though it was the sabbath but there
wasn't any
how long will these people refuse to
obey the lord ask moses
don't they realize that i am giving them
twice as much on the sixth day so that
there will be enough for two days
for i have given you the seventh day as
a day of sabbath rest
stay in your tents and don't go out to
pick up food from the ground that day
so the people rested on the seventh day
and the food became known as mena which
means what is it
it was white like coriander seed and
flat and tasted like honey bread
then moses gave them this further
instruction from the lord
they were to take three quarters of it
to be kept as a museum specimen forever
so that later generations could see the
bread the lord had fed them within the
wilderness when he brought them from
egypt and moses told aaron to get a
container and put three quarts of manna
in it and to keep it in a sacred place
from generation to generation
aaron did this
just as the lord had instructed moses
and eventually it was kept in the ark in
the tabernacle
and so the people of israel ate the men
of forty years
until they arrived in the land of canaan
after this jesus went to the other side
of the sea of galilee which is the sea
of tiberias
and a multitude followed him because
they saw the signs which he did on those
who were diseased
and jesus went up into the hills and sat
down with his disciples
now the passover the feast of the jews
was at hand
and lifting up his eyes then and seeing
that a multitude was coming to him jesus
said to philip
how we to buy bread so that these people
may eat and this he said to test him for
he knew what he was going to do
and philip answered him 200 denarii
would not buy enough bread for each of
them to get a little
one of his disciples andrew simon
peter's brother said to him
there is a lad here who has five barley
loaves and two fish but what are they
among so many
jesus said
make the people sit down
now there was much grass in the place so
the men sat down in number about five thousand
thousand
and jesus then took the loaves and when
he had given thanks he distributed them
to those who were seated and so the fish
as much as they wanted
and when they had eaten their fill he
told his disciples gather up the
fragments left over that nothing may be lost
lost
so they gathered them up and filled 12
baskets with fragments from the five
barley loaves left by those who had
eaten and when the people saw the sign
which he had done they said this is
indeed the prophet who is to come into
the world
and perceiving that they were about to
come and take him by force to make him king
king
jesus withdrew again to the hills by himself
himself
when evening had come his disciples went
down to the sea got into a boat and
started across the sea to capernaum
it was now dark and jesus had not yet
come to them the sea rose because a
strong wind was blowing
and when they had rode about three or
four miles they saw jesus walking on the sea
sea
and drawing near to the boat they were
frightened but he said to them it is i
do not be afraid
then they were glad to take him in the
boat and immediately the boat was at the
land to which they were going
on the next day the people who remained
on the other side of the sea saw that
there had been only one boat there and
that jesus had not entered the boat with
his disciples but that his disciples had
gone away alone however
however
boats from tiberias came near the place
where they ate the bread after the lord
had given thanks
so when the people saw that jesus was
not there nor his disciples they
themselves got into the boats and went
to capernaum seeking jesus
when they found him on the other side of
the sea they said to him rabbi when did
you come here
and jesus answered them
truly truly i say to you
you seek me not because you saw signs
but because you ate your fill of the
loaves do not labor for the food which
perishes but for the food which ca
endures to eternal life which the son of
man will give to you for on him has god
the father set his seal and then they
said to him
what must we do to be doing the works of god
god
jesus answered them this is the work of
god that you believe in him
whom he has sent
so they said to him then what sign do
you do that we may see and believe you
what work do you perform our fathers ate
the men are in the wilderness as it is
written he gave them bread from heaven
to eat
jesus then said to them truly truly i
say to you it was not moses who gave you
that bread from heaven
for the bread of god is that which comes
down from heaven and gives life to the world
world
they said to him lord give us this bread
always jesus said to them
i am the bread of life
he who comes to me
now we are studying the lord's prayer
just now as a model for our own private devotions
devotions
as the perfect prayer
if there can be such a thing but since
it came
from the lips of someone who never once
talked about the problems of prayer
because he assumed it was as normal and
natural for a son of a father to talk to
his father
well as anything could be natural on earth
earth
somebody recently said the rich the
healthy and the happy
seldom pray
that's quite a statement
and it may find us out to this degree
that most of us pray more sincerely when
we feel our need and this particularly
applies to the phrase we're going to
look at tonight give us this day our
you see we can go on eating we can go on
buying food in this country and we can
never say our prayers
and the people who don't say their
prayers seem to have just as much food
as we do
their fridges and food freezers are stacked
stacked
and they don't need to ask god for daily bread
bread
and there are many who honestly feel
that this phrase is a bit of a
hypocritical thing to pray
when we really have so much food in this
country that we never need to ask god
for it
should we then use this or should we cut
it out of our affluent west and leave
this phrase for the east and the south
of the world
well let's look at it a little more deeply
deeply
here in this one short prayer we are
being given a pattern and the pattern is
the heavenly things must come before
earthly things in your prayer
but the earthly things must follow the
heavenly things
take the first statement i've made
we are to pray first for god's honor
for reverence for god for allegiance to
god for obedience to god before ever we
bring any earthly need we are to think
of what god wants first that's a rule in prayer
prayer
and maybe a lot of our prayer life is
stunted and selfish
and dry because we start with ourselves
every time
we should begin with heaven
but having said that we should come down
to earth and pray about the most
practical things
i remember a dear old lady up in the
shetland islands miss grace johnson
she's dead now i was reminded of her
watching that wonderful program of the
shetland islands on television this week
which really made me homesick but there
was a dear lady in a little craft up there
there
and she lived in a little house that had
a downstairs room and an attic loft
where she slept on a mattress on the floor
floor
and there was a vertical ladder up the wall
wall
to the upper room
and she was crippled with rheumatoid arthritis
arthritis
and the next door neighbor used to pop
in occasionally at night
and one night she was there when this
old lady went to bed
and she saw her go to the foot of the
ladder and get hold of it and then she
stopped and she put her head down and
she closed her eyes and the lady next
door said what on earth are you doing
you're all right and she said i'm just
asking the lord to help me upstairs
and this lady said well i'm here tonight
i'll help you upstairs you don't need to
pray tonight and dear old grace said ah
but you're not here every night most
nights you're not here and then the lady
said well you don't think god's bothered
about you getting up a ladder do you and
grace johnson said a profound thing
which i've never forgotten which i heard later
later
she said if he could not help me in
little things i would not trust him for
the big things
if he could not help me in earthly
things i couldn't trust him for heavenly things
things
now she had a profound understanding
there is no detail of our life too small
too practical to be of god's concern
if we have a real need it does not
matter what our real need is we can
bring it to god in prayer
now the next thing i'm going to say you
would understand if you saw my study
there are times when i can't find something
something
enough said
have you ever been like this
many times i've got to the point where i
need something very badly i need it to
help someone i search and i can't find
it and i just close my eyes for an
instant and say lord where is that thing
you know where it is
tell me where it is
and again and again i open my eyes
looking at it
it is the most astonishing simple
down-to-earth experience and i can see
many of you have had this experience if
god cannot help us in the practical and
the little things what is the point of
asking for big things have you indeed
got the faith to ask him for big things
if you can't ask him for little
will now give us this day our daily
bread is an utterly practical petition
down to earth
and yet we will spiritualize it
some people have so driven a wedge
between the sacred and the secular
that ordinary bread seems to the much
too down to earth a thing to pray about
and they spiritualize this phrase
the catholics have spiritualized it in a
sacramental direction
and i remember when i first was given a
roman catholic bible the douay version
and i read through the lord's prayer our
father who out in heaven hallowed be thy
name thy kingdom come thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven give us this
day our super substantial bread
and this seemed to me to stick out like
a sore thumb and then i noticed there
was a little asterisk and a note at the bottom
bottom
referring me to daily mass
now that is one way that it has been too spiritualized
spiritualized
when our lord said give us this day our
daily bread he was not referring to the
communion service and yet this link with
the communion service has so persisted
that to this day the church of england has
has
caught us free churchmen out when we've
been to a communion service by having
the lord's prayer twice
and my missing a bit out of it the first
time so you can tell who's from another
church because they sail on into thine
as the kingdom power and the glory when
everybody else has stopped but that's
saying it twice at communion goes back
to this
over spiritual interpretation
of this phrase
now lest anybody's thinking i'm throwing
bricks in one direction let's throw one
in ours
we take this phrase daily bread and we
put it on front of our bible study notes
have you had your daily bread today
referring to scripture readings
and that's not what the lord meant either
either
in fact i've even chosen a hymn tonight
in which we fell into that trap break
thou the bread of life dear lord to me
as thou didst break the loaves beside
the sea did you expect piles of bread to
appear on this table when you're saying
that we were spiritualizing it
now i'll finish up later by telling you
that it's right to spiritualize it
because christ is the living bread
but i want to get you right down to
earth neither the sacramental nor the
scriptural interpretation of this phrase
is what i want to give you i want to
talk about bread
and it may seem naive to begin by saying
that he does not say give us this day
our daily cake
or give us this day our daily gem
for most of us are living far above our
physical requirements you need about
1200 calories a day
you're probably getting between two and
three thousand on your normal diet and
if you're a glutton you could be getting
more than that into your body and your
body doesn't need that
this is about practical daily needs
enough to live on
not luxuries
not fancy spiced food but just
sustaining bread of life
it was
archbishop william temple who said that
christianity was the most materialistic
of all the world religions
and what he meant by this was it says
more about bodies than any other religion
religion
almost every other religion in the world
talks about souls
and getting souls away from bodies into
nirvana or some other state in which
we're finished with the body
christianity is the only religion that
emphasizes the body as something that
god saves
not only by healing in this life but by
replacing it and recreating it in the
next life
god will not finish saving you until he
saved your body
the redemption of your body is part of
his plan why because these bodies
wonderful machines that they are were
given to us to be temples
we spend a lot of money on elaborate
buildings for god but
it's these that are to be his temple
and we have a very high view of the body
in the christian faith and this is the
reason why there is such a high
proportion of christians in the medical profession
