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When We Pray... Part 4 "Give Us Today Our Daily Bread" Mathew 6:11

 Dec 3, 2023

Series: When We Pray…

Give Us Today Our Daily Bread…

Matthew 6:11

Mountain View Evangelical Missionary Church

 

Three sermons ago, we had a bit of an introduction to this section of Matthew chapter six which is part of the great teaching from Jesus collectively known as the Sermon on the Mount. In week one we discovered three main points:

  1. Do not pray hypocritically. Like so many other areas of our Christian lives, Jesus is concerned with our heart attitude when it comes to our prayers and our prayer life.
  2. The next lesson that we extracted from the text was that you are not limited to a “sacred space” such as a prayer closet but, rather… we should think that we are entering a sacred space when we pray because we are entering into the Father’s presence.
  3. Finally, we saw that Father knows best. We must trust that when the Lord grants, delays, or denies our prayer requests, He is doing so because it is best for us and will bring the most Glory to God.

That was the first lesson of this series.

 

Two sermons ago, we examined these points found in Matthew 6, verse 9:

  1. We are to pray to the Father. The prayer found here in Matthew 6 and a similar prayer found in Luke 11 are examples of how we are to pray, and not specifically the words that we are to pray every time.
  2. We also learned that we should think of prayer as a form of worship.
  3. The final point that we examined that week was, that since prayer is a form of worship, and worship is reserved for God alone, we are not to pray to anyone else except to God, preferably to the Father. We can pray to Jesus, for He intercedes on our behalf, but the example that Jesus sets for us is to pray to the Father.

That was the second lesson of the series.

 

Last lesson we discovered the following points:

1.      We read how God’s name is to be regarded as “hallowed” or Holy and should be spoken with a sense of awe and reverence.

2.      Included in last week’s verses was the thought that God is a King and He has a Kingdom. As followers of Jesus, we should be anticipating that the Lord will return, and the thought of His Kingdom reinforces our need to make Him Lord.

3.      We discovered that one of the purposes of prayer was to bend our will to God’s will and we examined how we should commit to following Jesus by moving from just accepting Him as Savior and we should embrace the concept of making Jesus Lord of our lives. We should do this because Jesus is a King and He has a Kingdom. A kingdom that is both in Heaven and on Earth.

 

OK, that’s enough of the recap. Let us open our Bibles or turn to our devices and let’s look together at today’s passage. Please turn to Mathew chapter six starting at verse 9.

 

I advise reading the entire prayer so that we can have some context to what we are studying this morning, verses 9-15, then you should pray, and then we will come back and zero in on verse 11 which we will be looking more deeply at today.

 

So, please read Matthew 6:9-15.

 

PRAY

 

Let me just take a minute to address something that you may have noticed throughout the last few weeks. Have you been getting a little twitch when I have been reading this prayer, and does it seem like I have been missing or skipping a verse at the end of the prayer? Have you been itching to hear the words, “For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen?” Let me explain why these words have been missing. If you look in your Bible, there should be a letter and a footnote at the end of verse 13 if those words are not part of the main text.

 

The footnote should say something in the manner of “these words are found in later manuscripts.” I remember as a kid when I was going through Catholic catechism classes having to memorize this prayer and the Catholic church teaches the additional verse. Here’s the thing, this verse only appears in later manuscripts.

 

Of course, you know, that there were no document scanners or photocopiers back in the day and these manuscripts would all have to be copied one at a time by hand. Often by a monk, by candlelight with ink and a quill. Somewhere along the way, a monk decided to add this little phrase to show more honor and Glory to God. It wasn’t a terrible addition, and it certainly didn’t add anything theologically to the passage.

 

The thing is, today’s Bible translators have so many more manuscripts, or parts of manuscripts to compare against each other and they can discover these types of discrepancies and then remove them from the main body of the text and turn them into a footnote all in the name of accuracy. They do this in an attempt to make the best possible Bible and to be as faithful to the originals as they can be. This whole art and science is known as “textual criticism” and there is a whole field of study in this area.

 

Some translations of the Bible have chosen to leave it in the main body of the text like the King James Version has, but for the sake of accuracy, most modern translations have moved it to the sidelines. I just wanted to address this in case it was bugging you as I was reading this passage over and over.

 

It is important that you be aware of these things and I’ll tell you why. This morning I came across a short video put out by a fellow who calls himself the Muslim Cowboy, his name, not my label. Anyway, he put out a short video showing the same sort of thing in a different place in Matthew. Matthew 17:21 has also been removed from the body of the text and become a footnote. The reason for this omission is that earlier manuscripts have been found where this verse is not present. Verse 21 is a word-for-word copy of Mark 9:29. Speculation is that a copyist who was familiar with the Mark account simply added Mark 9:29 to Mathew 17 after verse 20. That was a human error, that was discovered by faithful Bible scholars, who then removed Matthew 17:21 as a way of being faithful to the text in the original documents. But false teachers like The Muslim Cowboy use these methods by the biblical scholars to sow doubt in your mind that the Bible is not trustworthy. They sow these seeds of doubt by not telling you the complete story and the reason why newer translations have omitted or corrected theses copying errors. The thing is the Bible translators are completely open and transparent about what they have done in an attempt to be accountable. But, false teachers come along and try to dissuade you from believing the Bible. I think we can tell this man’s motives from the name of his channel, “The Muslim Cowboy”.

 

If you want to dive into this a little deeper, search YouTube for Dr. James White and the inerrancy of scripture. There are several good talks that Dr. White has given at various conferences over the years where he explains these things in greater detail than I can do this morning. I highly recommend watching them. They will increase your level of assurance and how you can trust the Bible.

 

Well, we have done a little correction, a little recap, and a little housekeeping and we haven’t even gotten to today’s passage. Let’s get started, shall we? Last week we concluded the first half of the prayer by looking at the first three petitions of this prayer. Petitions that are designed to properly orientate ourselves towards God and bring to the forefront of our mind and our prayer, the character of God that He has. Our God, whom we gather each week to worship and to learn from, is a personal, loving, and powerful Father.

 

When we understand this in the very depths of our hearts, then the content of our prayers will be radically affected in two ways.

 

First, God’s concerns will be given priority over our concerns. This is the express goal demonstrated through the order of the petitions in this prayer. God’s role and name, the importance of His Kingdom, and the fulfillment of His will are given preference over our self-centered requests.

 

I haven’t mentioned this fact yet, but if you think about it, this prayer follows the structure of the Ten Commandments. Here is your homework assignment for this week: after the service turn to Exodus chapter 20, starting in verse 1, and observe how the first four commandments are centered on God and our relationship with Him, and how the rest of the commandments are centered on our behaviours. The first four commands are vertical, and the rest are centered horizontally and how we live with each other. I mention this fact, just to show how consistent God is throughout His teaching.

 

The second thing that the arrangement of this prayer teaches us is that our own needs, though demoted to second place, will yet be completely committed to Him. We will be looking at this truth today and in the next few weeks. The three requests exemplified in this prayer start with: “give us”, “forgive us”, and “deliver us” and they all still give major consideration to the Father.

 

Let’s turn back to today’s passage and read the verse that we are going to consider more closely today. You all should still be in Matthew 6, and that would still be on page 787 of the pew bible.

 

READ MATTHEW 6:11

 

Verse 11 starts with a petition for our physical needs. Beginning with this first request, these three requests cover all of our physical and spiritual needs. On this point, Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote the following:

 

“Our whole life is found there in those three petitions, and that is what makes this prayer so utterly amazing. Our Lord has covered the whole life of the believer in every respect. Our physical needs, our mental needs, and of course, our spiritual needs are included. The Body is remembered, the soul is remembered, the spirit is remembered. And that is the whole of man.”

 

Let me repeat, “Our whole life is found there in those three petitions, and that is what makes this prayer so utterly amazing. Our Lord has covered the whole life of the believer in every respect. Our physical needs, our mental needs, and of course, our spiritual needs are included. The Body is remembered, the soul is remembered, the spirit is remembered. And that is the whole of man.”

 

Isn’t that comforting to know this? This Scripture tells us that all our needs are met through Christ from the Father. Notice I said needs, not wants. This is where the false teachings of the health and prosperity teachers get it wrong. What doesn’t this passage say? This prayer does not tell us that we will be rich beyond our wildest dreams, or that we will all own big homes simply because we follow Jesus. Or that we will all drive Mercedes because we pray for them. When we read Scripture and we read into the text a specific interpretation that was not meant by the original author, that is known as eisegesis. Eisegesis is the opposite of exegesis, which is the extracting, or discovering in the text the proper meaning that the original writer meant when they wrote that text to the audience at that time.

 

All these false teachers like Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and others all practice eisegesis by reading into the text exactly what they want to find there. They will take a passage like this that is meant to bring us comfort from the fact that we have a loving Father in Heaven who will provide for His children, and they will twist it to show that God will just give us whatever we ask for and if we don’t have something it is simply because we don’t have enough faith to ask for it. That is hogwash. This teaching is not only false and dangerous, but it is designed to make them rich by sucking every dollar from you that they can.

 

Are you failing? Send them a faith gift so that God will pour out His blessings on you. Or, buy this book on prayer and you will succeed. Plant this seed of giving today and you will reap rewards in the future. Please don’t fall for any of this nonsense. This is why we are always to read Scripture in light of Scripture. The Bible does not contradict itself. There are no errors in God’s Word. If we find an error or contradiction when reading Scripture, the error lies in our understanding of what we are reading, not in the intention of the one who wrote it.

 

The Bible warns us of the dangers of following false teachers. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 warns us, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

 

The Apostle Paul was warning the young pastor Timothy to not fall into the temptation of chasing after the crowds by teaching them false teachings simply to attract them and tickle their ears with the myths that they desire to hear.

 

You might be thinking right now that the Bible also teaches that God delights in giving us the desires of our hearts.

 

It is true that twice in Psalms the desires of our hearts are mentioned. We read in Psalm 20 what appears to be promises that God will give us the desire of our hearts. A careful reading of the Psalm shows that this was a Psalm written by David in a time of war, and the purpose of the Psalm was to align the hearts and prayers of the Israelites to desire victory in the coming battle and to give the credit for the anticipated victory to God and not to themselves.

 

That is the exegesis of that Psalm, but the false teachers will pluck the second half of verse 5, “May the LORD grant all your requests”. They will take this verse completely out of context and use it as a proof-text of their false teachings.

 

Psalm 37:4 also speaks of the LORD giving us the desires of our hearts. Scripture reads, “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Well, what about that passage pastor Paul, it seems like that his passage is telling us that God will give us the desires of our hearts, and I desire a big house, a fancy car, and a fat bank account.

It does seem like that doesn’t it? At least it does if we ignore the qualifying statement that is in the first half of the verse. Most people skip right over the “Take delight in the LORD” statement. Most people think, of course, I will take delight in the LORD if He is giving me what I ask for.

This is a perfect example of needing more Scripture to help us understand and correct this wrong teaching about this passage. When we read passages like Psalm 37:4 we need to keep in mind Scripture such as Romans 12:2 which reads,

“2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Paul is telling us to allow our minds to be transformed by the Holy Spirit, and when we do we will resist the patterns and temptations of the world, of our culture, we will be able to spot and resist the false teachers and cling to what is good and what God’s will is for our lives. Paul tells us that God’s will is pleasing to His children. That is a method that we can use to determine if we are truly His children. Are we satisfied with what God has given us, or do we covet what others have?

Another passage to help us interpret passages that seem to tell us that God is there for our pleasure is Galatians 5:16-17. This passage is in a section of Scripture where Paul has been warning the Galatians against those who were using their newfound freedom in Christ to throw off all their inhibitions and chase after their desires. Just before Paul gets to the section where he shows us the proof of our Salvation with the fruit of the Spirit, Paul gives us this advice, “16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other so that, you are not to do whatever you want.”

Paul was teaching the Galatians, and by extension, us today that we must guard against the desires of the flesh, not just sexual desires, but when our flesh desires the great comforts of life more than we desire our relationship with Jesus Christ. When we ignore the promptings of the Holy Spirit and chase after the desires that are contrary to what the Spirit is teaching us, what God’s Word is teaching us, then we conflict with God and we need to do a course correction.

Please, brothers and sisters, don’t let false teachers, slick advertising campaigns, manipulation by others, or even our own fallen nature that put us in conflict with the Lord. We must align our wills with the will of the Father.

We discovered in the past weeks that one of the primary purposes of prayer is to bend our will to the Father’s will. To align our desires with the Father's desires for us. That is one of the primary lessons for this entire prayer found in Matthew chapter 6.

 

Are you seeing the consistency in God’s Word? Don’t be fooled by people who try to tell you that there are contradictions or mistakes in the Bible, it simply isn’t true.

 

Ok, so we have established that the Father is a giver. Not an indiscriminate giver. Not a Father who treats us like spoiled children and grants us our every request. But rather, He treats us like a loving Father, granting those requests that are in keeping with His will, and that are beneficial for us. A loving, caring, personal Father.

 

The Father is so generous that He gave us the greatest gift of all, the gift of Grace. He gave us His Son as a substitutionary sacrifice so that we could have a way back to Him in a restored relationship.

 

The next thing that we can extract from this passage is that our daily needs are met by the Father.

 

Just a little historical and cultural context here: let’s examine the diet of those in the times of Jesus and the agricultural practices of that time in that region of the world.

The majority of calories for the people groups of the Near Middle East were derived from three main sources: bread, olive oil, and wine. These were supplemented by fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy, and meat, all of which varied depending on seasons, local weather, the social and economic standing of the people eating the food, the shifting geo-political realities, and annual rainfall.

 

Let me go through a quick list of the foods that are mentioned in the Bible and then I’ll explain that last statement. Foods that are mentioned in the Bible or have been discovered through archaeologically digs of that period are: grain, olive oil, wine as mentioned as well as, grapes, vegetables, lentils, fava beans, filed peas, chick peas, figs, dates, pomegranate, almonds, pistachios, honey, locusts, lamb or mutton, goat, beef, gazelle, deer, fish (both fresh and preserved), fresh milk, cheese, ghee (which is a form of liquid butter), and fowl (both domesticated and wild). That’s a rundown of the various sources of the calories for the people of the region in biblical times.

 

Let me explain what determined the variations in their diets. If you lived on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea you probably ate more fresh fish and seafood than you did mutton or beef. Those in the plains were farmers and herdsmen so they would have had preserved fish rather than fresh, as well as more goat, lamb, beef, deer, or gazelle. Both coastal people and plains people probably kept domesticated fowl as they would not require much room, so fresh eggs would have been available to most.

 

Running down the spine of this region was the Silk Road which was a major trade route with India and into China. This would have given the people along that route the opportunity to trade for more exotic food and spices at a cheaper rate and then they would sell or trade with those going towards the coastal region where the same goods would have become increasingly more expensive as they traded hands to get to them.

 

Remember, they didn’t have refrigerators or freezers, so apart from smoking, drying, salting, or pickling, your options for preserving food were limited. Your diet would change with the growing season for the various foods and as the differing crops would mature or ripen, you would incorporate those foods into your diet.

 

Here is some interesting facts for you grain producers. Wheat was primarily grown in the Jezreel Valley, the Upper Jordan Valley, and the Beth-Shen Valley. These were all coastal valleys and they had the appropriate rainfall amounts and soil conditions. Durham wheat was the primary variety of wheat grown simply because of its ease of milling. Emmer wheat and other wild varieties were also grown.

 

The durum wheat was typically sown in November and December which coincided with the early rains, and it would be harvested in May. Production was dependent on early rainfall as well as adequate rainfall in the late spring and early summer which would result in producing the highest yields. The durum wheat of this region thrives in areas that receive 500-700 millimeters of rain annually, but it can produce in areas the get as little as 225 millimeters of rain.

 

Barley was also grown in the region, but it was better adapted to soils that had high salinity and alkalinity. Barley was grown in the regions of the Northern Negev, Palestinian hill country, and parts of the Transjordan area.

 

Ancients typically consumed grain in the form of bread. The Bible also records grain being eaten as roasted kernels, as fresh ears, or as a porridge when mixed with water. There are numerous types of bread known, as well as several ways that bread could be prepared. Milling grain for bread by hand was a laborious process; it has been estimated that the grinding and sieving process could take as much as three hours to produce enough flour for 5–6 people for one day’s consumption. Breads were either leavened or unleavened. It could be baked on stones heated in the coals of a fire, on an iron pan or griddle, or in beehive-shaped oven called a tannur. Breads, cakes, wafers, and grain were so important to the diet that the words for bread in both Hebrew and Greek are used to mean food in general. The caloric contribution grain made to ancient diets is quite high compared with modern Western diets—estimates fall somewhere between 53–75% of calories from grain—but the higher figure may be too low an estimate for people who were poorer.

 

While our most current evidence suggests that ancient Israelites ate more meat than scholars of the late nineteenth century believed, meat made a relatively minor contribution to the diet of most people. Recent attempts to estimate meat consumption have led to estimates of between 30 and 70 grams of meat consumption per person per day. With this amount, meat was neither an unknown luxury nor the cornerstone of the average diet.

 

In the Gospel of John, Jesus refers to Himself as the Bread of Life. Turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 6, starting in verse 25. That would be page 865 in the Pew Bible.

 

READ JOHN 6:25-40

 

Let’s take a plain reading of this text and see what it is telling us here. Jesus refers to Himself as the Bread of Life because this event happens shortly after the feeding of the five thousand where the multitude was fed with five small barley loaves and two small fish. The Lord provided for those present by supernaturally multiplying what was brought to Him and miraculously fed over five thousand. Now at that event, Jesus provided for them physically. He met their physical needs, but we started today’s lesson by reading a quote from Dr. Lloyd-Jones that pointed out that God provides for all of man, body, soul, and spirit. In this passage in John. Jesus is addressing the needs of our soul and spirit. In verse 26 Jesus confronts the crowd for coming after Him only to have their physical needs met. Like those who chase the prosperity and Gospel or those who use the church for personal gain or comfort.

 

Verse 29 Jesus addresses the very essence of why He came to Earth, “The work of God is this; to believe in the one he has sent”. In verse 32 Jesus goes on to correct their incorrect theology that they believed that Moses had given them the manna, and Jesus said hang on a tick, it wasn’t Moses but the Father in Heaven who supplied the manna.

 

Now look at verse 35, Jesus declares that ““I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.” There were people even in the days of Jesus who saw all the miracles yet they still refused to believe. Now, if you stopped here, it seems like we have the choice of coming to Jesus. That we initiate this step in our Salvation.

 

But look at verse 37, and we have to look at verse 35 and 36 in the context of verse 37. 37 says, “ 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

 

What was the will of the Father? That Jesus should live a perfect earthly life, and remain sinless, so that He could be the spotless Lamb of God and thus be the only possible atoning sacrifice that would satisfy the wrath of God.

 

Look at verse 39 as it continues, “39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone” stop there. Who is the “everyone”? All that the Father has given to Jesus. Not everyone in the world and not even everyone who comes to Jesus on their own desires and conditions. Everyone that the Father has given Jesus. Continuing in verse 40,  “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

 

That’s it, that is the Gospel message in a nutshell. Those that the Father draws to the Son and who believe in the completed work on the Cross of Jesus Christ and who believe that He was raised from the dead will be saved. Friends, if you are here today and are hearing this message, it is my sincere belief that the Father is drawing you to Jesus. Do not delay, do not hesitate, and accept the free gift of Grace that the Father is extending to you through His son Jesus Christ.

 

Back to the topic of food. Apart from vegetation being mentioned in Genesis as a generic term, there is only one list of vegetables in the Hebrew Bible. Numbers 11:5 lists cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. The list appears in the context of foods the Israelites associated with Egypt while they wandered in the wilderness. Vegetable cultivation was more heavily dependent on irrigation (common in the Nile delta) and was not convenient for those who lived in a geography and climate that was better suited to the use of seasonal rains (the land of Israel).

One writer suggests that it may have been people at the extreme ends of the economic scale who commonly ate vegetables: Those who were wealthy and could afford the land and labor for cultivating a vegetable crop, and those who were poor who could gather vegetables that could be found in the wild. Other vegetables that may have been available are turnips, radishes, carrots, watermelon, and kale. I have it on good authority that no one liked kale in those days either.

 

One commentator put it this way, “Ultimately, local conditions—whether geographic, political, social, or economic—contributed to the variety of the foodstuffs consumed by people who lived in Gibeon, Jerusalem, Ashkelon, or Tel Chinnereth. Despite an individual’s status, the “Mediterranean triad”—grain, olive oil, and wine—formed the basis of an ancient Israelite’s diet.”[1]

I said all of that to show you one thing. What did all of those things require? Two things; first the provision of God for the seeds, livestock, rain, soil, and growing conditions to produce those things. That was God’s part. The second thing that was required was effort from mankind. Fish had to be caught, crops had to be planted and harvested, livestock had to be raised, slaughtered and preserved or traded. Fruit had to be picked. Grapes and olives had to be crushed. All this required effort from men and women.

Again, we will turn to Scripture to help us understand what Scripture is saying to us. Matthew 6:11 tells us that we are to ask our Father to give us today our daily bread. But apart from a very brief time in biblical history, (forty years to be exact) as outlined in Exodus chapter 16, except for the period when the Jews were wandering in the wilderness and God provided the manna from Heaven, man has had to work to produce his food.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 gives us these very wise words of instruction, “10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 11 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. 12 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

Let’s look at what that passage says. “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat”. This does not apply if the person is not able to work. But… if a person is able to work they must work in order to eat. It doesn’t say that they are only to work at high-paying jobs or easy types of labor. Paul is warning us that those who are too fussy to work at jobs that they deem are below them are not to be supported. If we can work, then we are instructed by the Bible that we are to be willing to work.

There is such a wide variety of jobs available in this world today, that I only see a very narrow range of reasons for people not to be working. We are made for work.

Alright, we are over time, so I am going to short shrift this last point and that is we are to be givers as well.

It is by God’s providence that the reminder is at the bottom of page 5 in your bulletin this morning. Roxanne sent me this reminder to you all to include in the bulletin last night long after this passage had been chosen to preach this morning.

Because we are the Father’s adopted children, we are to emulate the Father. He gives us everything and all that He asks is that we return a small portion of the first fruits back to Him.

This concept is taught all throughout the Bible but it is seen as early as Genesis chapter 4. Genesis 4:2-5 says, “Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor.”

I will confess to you that this is an area that I am constantly trying to improve upon. It is an area of trust and faith. When we give from the first fruits of our labor, especially when there seems to be more month than money ahead, it allows God to prove His faithfulness and provision once more.



[1] Jeremy Gabrielson, “Food,” ed. John D. Barry et al., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

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