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The Lords Prayer (Part 5): Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread -- David Pawson | Hosanna | YouTubeToText
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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
profession
you count up the proportion of doctors
and nurses who are christians and you
will discover that it's higher than any
one would like to see it even higher in
that too
but nevertheless
in the professions and callings of men
there is a higher proportion in medicine
than any other the second incidentally
is teaching because christians are
concerned with people's minds also
but bodies are important to be looked
after and god knows this he made our
bodies to be the temples of the holy
ghost therefore when jesus walked this
earth he didn't just offer forgiveness
he healed and he fed
he told people to get up and walk and he
said you look hungry i'm going to give
you something to eat he was concerned
about it
i think his divine compassion and
interest in ordinary human needs is
marvelous at this point
he was watching the faces of his
congregation and he was watching them
not with the thought
do they think i'm preaching a good
sermon are they listening to this but
they look hungry
for bread
they need a good square meal and he said
to the disciples we're not going to send
them on that long journey home without a
meal before they go isn't that thoughtful
thoughtful
and so he gave them bread and fish
well now i want to study this phrase
give us this day our daily bread backwards
backwards
i mean i want to study it backwards
starting with the last word and going
back through them let's take this word
bread first the bible states that men
shall not live by bread alone but the
first meaning of that phrase is man
shall live by at least bread
it means that he needs bread to live
and a corpse can't be converted
and a man who is starved to death can't
be reached for christ
this sounds again a simple statement and
an obvious one
but i came across a prayer of queen
elizabeth the first i don't know if you
know that she wrote a prayer book but
every morning queen elizabeth got away
in her private chapel and she wrote a
prayer out for herself
and one of the prayers of queen
elizabeth the first was with was this
they that are snarled and entangled in
the extreme plenary of things needful
for the body
cannot set their minds upon thee o lord
as they ought to do
have pity on them therefore o merciful father
father
and relieve their misery through thine
incredible riches
that by re thy removing of their urgent
necessity they may rise up unto thee in mind
mind
now forget the language for a moment
that's real elizabethan english with
long words and all but there's the heart
of a queen
who was concerned about the bodies
minds and spirits of her subjects
and who recognized that while people
were starving it was not easy for them
to listen to god and she prayed that
prayer so when the bible says man shall
not live by bread alone it is not saying
that bread is unimportant
it's saying that man needs more than
bread because he's an animal more than
an animal
an animal only needs bread but man needs
god as well and he needs to feed on god
or he's not a human being
but he can't do that unless he has
enough to eat
look now at the next word daily working backwards
backwards
it seems a simple word
but you would be amazed to learn that
the scholars could not translate that
word for a very long time
nobody knew what it meant
it only occurred twice in the bible
once here and once in luke 11 where the
lord's prayer occurs again
and it had never been known in any other
book in the world
there was no greek literature that used
this word if you're interested it's a world
world episodes
episodes
and no one knew what it meant
and so they guessed at it and that's why
the catholics guessed it meant super
substantial but i'm sure their guess was wrong
wrong
and others said give us this day our
subsistence bread and thought that might
be the meaning
a few years ago somebody digging around
in the sands of egypt
unearthed a bit of parchment
and in the dry sand of egypt parchment
will survive as it won't in the wet
climate of israel
and he dug it up and found it had some
greek writing on it
and it was around 2000 years old and you
know what it turned out to be a woman's
shopping list
that's all
two thousand years old a shopping list
and at the top of
the little list was this word
and the sentence in which it occurred
made it utterly clear what it meant
it meant for tomorrow
for the next 24 hours and she had
written down a list what i must buy for
the next 24 hours and there was the word
that's what it means give us today
enough to live another 24 hours that's all
all
it's such a simple little word
and jesus said don't worry about
tomorrow it's a sin to worry don't be
anxious about tomorrow
live a day at a time
our life is divided up by god into 24
hour periods
no man is really capable of living more
than 24 hours at a time
we are to go to bed and finish that day
off confess its sins thank god for its
blessings and go to bed trusting that
he'll bring us through just another day
now of course we don't live like that
we're not living on that basis in this
country and so we find it difficult
but i know that the secret of the saints
is to live one day at a time
and when you're really going through it
and when you're really in trouble in
danger and when you're really hungry
there is only one safe way to tackle it
and that's say lord
we'll just live a day at a time
i'm not going to worry about the day
after tomorrow or next week just give me
enough for 24 hours
now the next word are
the one thing that the lord's prayer
doesn't allow you in your private
devotions is selfishness
this prayer is given to be used in your
bedroom not in church really though we
do use it here
some people say we say the lord's prayer
too often i would say we don't say it
often enough
i mean by that we may say it too often
in public we don't say it often enough
in private
some of you told me after i mentioned
this that you use the lord's prayer
every day in your private devotions
haven't you found that a help
there may be a day when you don't feel
like prayer when you don't know what to
say when you're as dead and dry as this
would on this pulpit what should you do
then you pray the lord's prayer that day
just go through it phrase by phrase
and the one thing that it will deliver
you from is self-pity because it says our
our
give us
our daily bread who is included
well all the lord's people
now i'm going to say something that
could be misunderstood i hope it won't be
be
when we pray our we are not thinking of
the whole world
because the whole world are not the sons
of our father
this prayer is given to the lord's people
people
and when we say our we should think as
wide as the whole church in the whole world
world
we are praying for every son of god
every child of god
now the misunderstanding that could
arise is that i have said that we don't
need to bother about the others we do
but what we need to do with them is to
do something very practical
and to give and to share
and to agitate for more of our total
national income to be given to
underdeveloped countries that's what we
ought to do there
but when we pray our daily bread we're
thinking of the whole family
of god throughout the world
now the word today
i want to remind you if you did not know
that the people to whom christ said this
were paid by the day
and did not know whether tomorrow they
would have a job
they didn't have a weekly wage or a
monthly salary or whatever your pay is
they had no security beyond the day
and every morning you would see the men
make for the labor exchange it was the
marketplace and they would stand there
and maybe the own river vineyard would
come and say would you like a job today
would i like a job you try me
they would stand waiting every morning
at the labor exchange for a job
and it was to these people who literally
did not know whether they'd have any
money tomorrow
that jesus dared to say
just ask for enough for today for the
next 24 hours
indeed he spoke of people who had so
little that when they came to the end of
the day the ladder was empty and if a
visitor called they had nothing to set
before them and would have to go down
the street knocking everybody up and
saying i've had a visitor come today
could you lend me some bread have you
got any left over
now it was to people literally on the
bread line
who in today's terms were paid one
shilling and sixpence per day
in today's value
that jesus dared to say why do you worry
about what you're going to eat what
you're going to drink and what you're
going to put on
and if he said it to them
how dare we ever worry
about the material needs of life how
dare we
to people who did not know if they'd
have a dinner tomorrow jesus said don't worry
worry
your heavenly father will look after that
that
you just ask him
one of the most amazing statements in
the bible i have ever come across is in
psalm 37
it is king david speaking and he says
this and when i first read it i'm afraid
i said that's not true
i'm sure it's not true but this is what
he said
i have been young
and now i am old
and yet i have never seen the righteous forsaken
forsaken
or his children
begging bread
now that is the most incredible
statement in the bible almost
i have been young
and now i am old yet i have never seen
the righteous forsaken
or his children begging for bread
and the righteous in the bible are those
who are right with god
and seeking his righteousness
and then they get the other things added
to them that is a claim which david makes
makes
which now having lived a bit longer
i believe to be true
that if a man is right with god
and doing what is right by god and
seeking his righteousness
he will not beg for bread
of course sometimes that is really tested
tested
and i will confess that there's only
been one time in my life when that was
tested with me really tested when i
didn't have anything and didn't know
where the next was coming from
i thank god i went through that
experience though it didn't last too long
long
but it was a wonderful experience
because i proved it to be true
that if you live 24 hours at a time he
does provide
and he gives you what you need for the
next day and you go on
now the word give
coming right back to the beginning the
word give acknowledges a number of
things but i'm just going to underline two
two
the first thing it underlines is this
god is the source of all our food
do you know the little children's poem
back of the loaf is the snowy flower and
back of the flower is the mill
and back of the mill is the sun and the
shower and the wheat and the father's will
will
in other words every bit of food you've
got comes from god
whether it's been sitting in your fridge
for three weeks or not it came from god
and without god you wouldn't have any to eat
eat
it's very important to remember this
when our food doesn't come direct from heaven
heaven
there's an interesting passage in
deuteronomy 6 where god says to the
children of israel
every morning you go out go out and
collect the manna and it comes straight
from heaven and you know i gave it
but beware lest when you enter into the
land which i am going to give you
and when your bonds are full and your
harvests are plentiful beware that you
do not forget the lord your god
and then god says an interesting thing
remember that it is god who gives you
the strength
and the power to get wealth to buy food
in other words even if we do have the
power to get food without praying for it
in even if we don't have to go out and
scrape off manna off our lawns then at
least we can say god behind this meal
that i'm eating
you are there
it is from you
and the second thing the word give
implies is this
that you have no right to food it is a
sheer gift of god's goodness
what right have i to sit down at a meal
and eat marmalade made from oranges in
spain and drink coffee from brazil
and eat
cornflakes made from maize grown the
other side of the atlantic what right
have i that the whole world should serve
me at my breakfast table what right have
i the answer is i have none at all i
think it is most appropriate that when
we bow our heads at the beginning of a
meal and i hope you do
that we call it saying grace
grace
because the word grace means
something that you couldn't have bought
that you didn't deserve and that god
gave you
even though you didn't deserve it
perhaps just to bow your head and say
literally one word grace
would be enough to give thanks to god
i don't know what grace you use one of
the dangers of saying grace is that you
get into a routine
and that you say the same words over and
over again
worse still is of course when
you say it only when the children are
there or when some of your godly
relatives are visiting
and i've had some very amusing
experiences in this i remember having a
meal and a lady said to the husband
you say grace dear so he did and when
he'd finished the little girl looked up
and said daddy what did you do that for
and the ensuing scene well we'll draw a
veil over it my grandfather once went to
a home for sunday lunch and
the wife did the same thing and landed
the husband in for it and he started off
with the lord's prayer he got into the
23rd psalm and then he had a bit from a
colic that he remembered and he wandered
round and round in circles he hardly got
finished yet
but just saying thank you
saying grace
that this is a gift of grace
that if god was not a god of grace we
wouldn't have anything to eat
to say the word give reminds you that it
is a gift it's not a right that you've
end it's a sheer gift of his goodness
now let me say finally that if i say
give us this day our daily bread
that does not excuse certain other
things it gives me no excuse for idleness
idleness
i know that the israelites had men are
from heaven that was the only way they
could get food in the wilderness but
when they got into canaan they had to
dig and they had to plow and they had to work
work
and one of the most astonishing texts in
the new testament is in thessalonians
and it says this
if a man will not work
neither shall he eat
in other words this is not a bypassing
of our need to work if we can work
nor does it excuse carelessness and
wastefulness because god supplies we
should regard ourselves as stewards of
the food
and i think that's one of the lessons in
the story where jesus said now gather up
the fragments that remain
what would be done with those well they
would supply the disciples with their
next meal
it was the disciples 12 baskets that got filled
filled
and jesus showed that we are not to
waste food even when it is plentifully
supplied by god
nor is it any excuse for gluttony
that is not compatible with this prayer
what somebody is called digging our
grave with a knife and fork
we are not excused that
and that is one of the deadly sins
according to the book of proverbs
we are to eat to live
not to live to eat
though it is one of the disturbing
features of our contemporary society
that having exhausted the delights of
roast beef and yorkshire pudding we are
now searching the world for more and
more dishes some of the most popular
programs on television are designed for gourmets
gourmets
now to say give us this day our daily bread
bread
is to ask god for enough simple
simple
good food
to help you to go on serving him for
another 24 hours that's all we're taught
to ask
no more no less
and god has promised to supply no more
no less
now finally i can't conclude without
spiritualizing a bit
there is a connection with christ christ
himself drew it when he said i am the
bread of life
your father's eight men are in the
wilderness yes but there's a bread that
you need if you're going to go on living
the ordinary bread sliced toasted or
whatever it may be can only keep you going
going
until the end of this life and then
it can't keep you alive and you've got
to die
but jesus said
you need a bread from god that you can
eat and live forever and they said give
us this bread where can we get bread
like that
and he said you can get it right here
from me
i gave you the other sort of bread
yesterday and that kept you going
another 24 hours
if you will come and let me feed you i
can keep you going forever
i am the bread of life
so we are told to look up
we still need bread from heaven
not for our daily meals but for eternal life
life
we still need bread from heaven to go on
living with god forever
and in luke 14 jesus gave us a beatitude
which i have never preached on
which i never had preached on
which i have never had quoted in any
pulpit anywhere
but it's a beautiful beatitude and here
it is
blessed is he
who shall eat bread
in the kingdom of god
it's wonderful to have a square meal today
today
you've all had square meals today you
look well fed and comfortable
but blessed is he
who shall eat bread in the kingdom of
heavenly father next time we sit down to
a meal
may we eat with blood hearts
knowing that you have supplied that food
and that unless you had willed that men
should have it
we would starve
very quickly
we ask that you will make us mindful of
all our physical blessings
and that you will teach us to regard our bodies
bodies
as temples of the holy spirit
to be kept fit
and useful for your service
until the day comes when we leave this body
body
go to be with the lord looking forward
to the day when we get a new body
we look forward to eating bread in the kingdom
kingdom
so may every meal here be a foretaste of
that heavenly banquet
may jesus christ and his presence
turn every meal into a time of real
fellowship and real joy
for we ask it in his name and for his sake
sake amen
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