1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,600 This morning, I'm really excited to invite Irene to come and be 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,560 our preacher. This morning she opens the word. 3 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,360 Irene, how are you feeling? Good. 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,360 All right. Let's pray for Irene. 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,760 Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for her. 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,960 We pray that you would bless her, encourage her, carry her. 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,320 This morning, may you anoint her with your spirit. 8 00:00:28,710 --> 00:00:32,070 That that which you have planted in her life may be shared with 9 00:00:32,070 --> 00:00:35,990 us as she opens the word. May you instruct her tongue to 10 00:00:35,990 --> 00:00:39,910 be able to share with us. But we also open our hearts and 11 00:00:39,910 --> 00:00:44,670 minds to you, that you yourself would speak to us by your 12 00:00:44,670 --> 00:00:49,750 spirit, that we might see life generated inside of us. 13 00:00:49,830 --> 00:00:51,670 And we ask this in the name of Jesus. 14 00:00:52,070 --> 00:00:57,390 Amen. Good morning, Origin. 15 00:00:57,510 --> 00:01:01,350 How are we today? Yeah, I saw some of you 16 00:01:01,350 --> 00:01:03,790 yesterday night. So we've we've not had the 8 17 00:01:03,790 --> 00:01:05,230 hours of sleep. That's OK. 18 00:01:05,230 --> 00:01:08,670 We're going to hang in there. For those of you don't know me, 19 00:01:08,750 --> 00:01:12,190 my name is Irene and I'll be preaching to you today. 20 00:01:12,510 --> 00:01:16,510 And so far, we've been in a series on the Lord's Prayer. 21 00:01:16,870 --> 00:01:19,110 Right. I don't know if it's the same 22 00:01:19,110 --> 00:01:23,110 for you, but I've been very excited about the Lord's Prayer, 23 00:01:23,230 --> 00:01:24,470 right? I think. 24 00:01:25,090 --> 00:01:29,090 There is something about prayer that is the heartbeat of what it 25 00:01:29,090 --> 00:01:30,810 means to be a Christian. Really. 26 00:01:30,810 --> 00:01:32,890 Because like when you think about it, the church we're in 27 00:01:32,890 --> 00:01:35,930 right now, what separates this church from any other community 28 00:01:35,930 --> 00:01:38,210 you're a part of? Like what separates this from 29 00:01:38,210 --> 00:01:42,490 your classrooms or your office or volunteering or charities or 30 00:01:42,490 --> 00:01:46,050 other communities? Other communities have beauty, 31 00:01:46,770 --> 00:01:49,690 other communities have truth, Other communities love each 32 00:01:49,690 --> 00:01:52,090 other. But I think what separates the 33 00:01:52,090 --> 00:01:56,580 church is 2 things. That we have the living God in 34 00:01:56,580 --> 00:02:01,660 us and among us. And two, that when we pray, we 35 00:02:01,660 --> 00:02:06,140 talk to God and something happens in that we change and 36 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:09,020 the world around us changes. There's so there's something 37 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:12,260 about the Lord's Prayer that's inviting us into prayer, right? 38 00:02:12,340 --> 00:02:15,540 And even Jesus. Jesus highlights the importance 39 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:18,980 of prayer. When Jesus describes his house, 40 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:22,190 how does he describe it? You know, when, like, the 41 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:24,270 merchants are on the temple and they're defiling it, what does 42 00:02:24,270 --> 00:02:25,750 he call the house? He does. 43 00:02:26,430 --> 00:02:27,630 Yeah. Yeah, we got it. 44 00:02:27,630 --> 00:02:29,390 Yes. He doesn't say my house is a 45 00:02:29,390 --> 00:02:31,750 House of great sermons or my house is a House of great 46 00:02:31,750 --> 00:02:33,790 worship, although both are important to the church. 47 00:02:34,070 --> 00:02:36,830 He defines his house as a House of prayer. 48 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:40,590 And I think this becomes even more poignant when we go into 49 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:43,430 the New Testament and we know we as believers have the spirit of 50 00:02:43,430 --> 00:02:45,670 God, which means we are houses of God. 51 00:02:46,070 --> 00:02:49,230 So both as individuals and as a community, we're called to 52 00:02:49,230 --> 00:02:50,450 prayer. Right. 53 00:02:50,450 --> 00:02:53,930 And so the Lord's Prayer, I think, is an invitation for us 54 00:02:53,930 --> 00:02:57,690 as origin to deepen our prayer lives as individuals, as a 55 00:02:57,690 --> 00:02:59,930 community. And I'm excited to do that. 56 00:03:00,370 --> 00:03:05,290 OK, so we're going into the fourth line of the Lord's 57 00:03:05,290 --> 00:03:07,570 Prayer. Matthew 611. 58 00:03:07,930 --> 00:03:10,730 Give us this day Our Daily Bread. 59 00:03:11,490 --> 00:03:14,450 OK, So if you've been paying attention for the past three 60 00:03:14,450 --> 00:03:16,770 weeks, this is kind of a shift, you guys. 61 00:03:17,010 --> 00:03:19,450 We were in the heavens with our Father in heaven. 62 00:03:19,890 --> 00:03:21,890 We were hollowing and setting apart His name. 63 00:03:22,050 --> 00:03:23,530 And hallowed be your name, right? 64 00:03:23,530 --> 00:03:26,170 We were recognizing His Kingdom. And your Kingdom come. 65 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:29,170 And we're aligning ourselves with His will and your will be 66 00:03:29,170 --> 00:03:30,570 done on earth as it is in heaven. 67 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:33,890 And then suddenly. Bread, bread. 68 00:03:34,090 --> 00:03:36,290 Bread in our homes. Maybe bread in your belly. 69 00:03:36,290 --> 00:03:37,650 Some of you have bread right now. 70 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:39,650 I saw you with bread bags. OK. 71 00:03:39,970 --> 00:03:43,770 And right, right there. So there's something about 72 00:03:43,770 --> 00:03:45,890 bread. It's like heavens to bread, what 73 00:03:45,890 --> 00:03:48,290 is the connection? Even though it seems like a 74 00:03:48,290 --> 00:03:51,010 shift. I think what it's showing is our 75 00:03:51,010 --> 00:03:53,410 God is an intensely practical God. 76 00:03:53,410 --> 00:03:56,770 OK, we have bodies he recognizes. 77 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:59,410 Hey, you can do lines one to three of the Lord's Prayer. 78 00:03:59,410 --> 00:04:02,010 If you don't eat you, you need to eat. 79 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:04,530 Give us this day, Our Daily Bread. 80 00:04:05,050 --> 00:04:10,730 So when Jesus models asking God for daily bread, I think he's 81 00:04:10,730 --> 00:04:13,130 telling us, hey, God cares about your needs. 82 00:04:13,370 --> 00:04:16,450 He sees them and he wants to provide for them. 83 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,200 The physical, the tangible nature of bread forces us to 84 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:24,760 recognize this is a God who parts Red Seas but also cares 85 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,680 about your next meal. That's important. 86 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:28,160 That's important. We understand that. 87 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,840 What is daily bread, though? Is it just your meal? 88 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,440 We're going, we're going to resurrect the Protestant 89 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,600 reformer, Martin Luther, and he's going to he. 90 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,320 This is his quote about what Daily bread is. 91 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:41,080 OK, food. Drink. 92 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:46,130 Clothes, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money and goods. 93 00:04:46,170 --> 00:04:48,410 A godly husband or wife, devout children, good workers, honest 94 00:04:48,410 --> 00:04:50,730 faithful leaders, good government, good weather, peace, 95 00:04:50,730 --> 00:04:53,330 health, law and order, and honorable name faithful friends, 96 00:04:53,570 --> 00:04:55,610 trustworthy neighbors. That's a long list. 97 00:04:55,930 --> 00:04:58,890 But what is it showing? That there's a lot that goes 98 00:04:58,890 --> 00:05:03,410 into your day that God is interested in fulfilling all of 99 00:05:03,410 --> 00:05:06,330 that? We have a God who cares, right? 100 00:05:06,610 --> 00:05:08,330 And there's this like, there's just like weird. 101 00:05:08,790 --> 00:05:12,350 Spiritual egoism that tries to separate the spiritual from the 102 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:15,630 physical that makes like, hey, God help me be more patient, a 103 00:05:15,630 --> 00:05:19,470 more important prayer than God give me daily bread and that I 104 00:05:19,470 --> 00:05:22,830 want to I want to spell this morning is a false binary. 105 00:05:23,510 --> 00:05:27,110 We are Christians. We're both body and spirit. 106 00:05:27,230 --> 00:05:30,390 OK, so Christianity doesn't say, hey, the body is lower than the 107 00:05:30,390 --> 00:05:32,190 spirit. Don't look at the body our 108 00:05:32,190 --> 00:05:35,720 Savior. Came in the form of a human. 109 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,520 He had a body in heaven. We're not angels. 110 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,480 We're not ghosts on our like cloud playing harps. 111 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,360 We have a body. We will have a body. 112 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,040 So the body is important so God cares our bodies and the fact 113 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,160 those bodies and needs. Now if you notice God does Jesus 114 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,360 doesn't say needs, he doesn't say grain. 115 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,240 He doesn't say caviar. He says bread. 116 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,480 And that's intentional. OK, so you have to remember 117 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,300 Jesus is God. And Jesus is always pointing to 118 00:06:05,380 --> 00:06:07,740 God. And So what he's doing, he's 119 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:11,180 pulling on an image of God from the Old Testament. 120 00:06:12,220 --> 00:06:16,980 We're gonna turn to Exodus 16 and like a little precursor for 121 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:21,920 this pass for this passage. At this point, Israel had come 122 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,640 out of Egyptian slavery. OK, they were. 123 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,000 They had Pharaoh and his chair. It's chasing them. 124 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,480 They go into the Red Sea, God parts the Red Sea, the men, the 125 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,600 women, the children are going, the pharaoh. 126 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,200 And everyone is drowning behind them, right? 127 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,760 It's this like dramatic show of God's glory. 128 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,080 But the Israelites are human. And So what happened? 129 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,680 They get hungry. They get hangry in the desert, 130 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,720 hungry and angry, and we see God showing up. 131 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,600 Exit is 16. Can you read with me? 132 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,600 They set out from Ellen. All the congregation at the 133 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,920 people of Israel came to the wilderness of sin, which is 134 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,880 between Ellen and Sinai, on the 15th day of the second month 135 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,720 after they departed from the land of Egypt. 136 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,640 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel rumbled 137 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,680 against Moses and Erin in the wilderness. 138 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,160 And the people of Israel said to them, would that we had died by 139 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,280 the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt. 140 00:07:17,730 --> 00:07:21,170 When we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full. 141 00:07:21,370 --> 00:07:24,650 For you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this 142 00:07:24,650 --> 00:07:28,090 whole assembly with hunger. Then the Lord said to Moses, 143 00:07:28,090 --> 00:07:31,890 Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven, for you, and the 144 00:07:31,890 --> 00:07:35,370 people shall go out and gather a day's portion, that I may test 145 00:07:35,370 --> 00:07:37,650 them whether they will walk in my law or not. 146 00:07:38,090 --> 00:07:40,410 On the 6th day, when they prepare what they bring in, it 147 00:07:40,570 --> 00:07:42,530 will be twice as much as they gather daily. 148 00:07:43,330 --> 00:07:46,410 So Moses and Aaron said to all the people Israel. 149 00:07:46,810 --> 00:07:49,370 That evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you 150 00:07:49,370 --> 00:07:51,850 out of the land of Egypt. And in the morning you shall see 151 00:07:51,850 --> 00:07:54,730 the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling 152 00:07:54,730 --> 00:07:56,930 against the Lord. For where are we that you 153 00:07:56,930 --> 00:07:59,530 grumble against us? Skip down to verse 13. 154 00:08:00,370 --> 00:08:04,050 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the 155 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:07,090 morning dew lay around the camp, and when the dew had gone up 156 00:08:07,090 --> 00:08:10,290 there was on the face of the wilderness a fine flake like 157 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:12,250 thing, fine as frost on the ground. 158 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,240 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, 159 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,320 what is it for? They did not know what it was. 160 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,440 And Moses said to them, it is the bread of the Lord. 161 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,960 It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 162 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,360 OK, so the Israelites are hungry. 163 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,280 They're in the desert. And then God is literally 164 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,840 raining down bread from heaven. Can you imagine that? 165 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,280 You wake up, you go out of your tent, and there's just quail and 166 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,710 bread everywhere. God supernaturally provided, 167 00:08:38,710 --> 00:08:40,950 right? So when Jesus is saying, hey, 168 00:08:40,950 --> 00:08:43,909 give us this day Our Daily Bread, he's saying God has 169 00:08:43,909 --> 00:08:45,590 stayed the same through the ages. 170 00:08:45,590 --> 00:08:47,630 He's the God who provided bread yesterday. 171 00:08:47,870 --> 00:08:49,630 He'll do it today and he'll do it tomorrow. 172 00:08:50,350 --> 00:08:55,150 And this aspect of God's provision becomes all the more 173 00:08:55,190 --> 00:08:58,870 important when we get that bill at the end of the month or 174 00:08:58,870 --> 00:09:01,750 groceries are too expensive, which is always a reality in 175 00:09:01,750 --> 00:09:05,240 Vancouver. Or something funny happens with 176 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,520 the job, right? There's a tension there where 177 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:12,240 we're invited and to worry and Jesus is making the opposite 178 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,080 invitation. He's saying, can you trust in 179 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,880 God's daily bread? Because the reality is God 180 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,000 always shows up over and over and over. 181 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,360 He provides like the Israelites were quite literally in a 182 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,560 desert. No bakers nearby Bread. 183 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,200 Elijah the prophet, he had no food. 184 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,080 Ravens fed him Jesus with the 5000. 185 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,120 Out of two low 25 loaves and two fish, all of them fed, right. 186 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,320 So we have a God who cares about our daily needs. 187 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,640 He cares about you having a good night of sleep. 188 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,440 He cares about your student loans. 189 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,720 He cares about your dinner. He cares about your daily needs. 190 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,080 And do you see God as providing your daily needs? 191 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,880 Like, do you have that picture of God from heaven? 192 00:09:53,650 --> 00:09:55,610 Literally, literally giving your needs. 193 00:09:56,130 --> 00:10:00,170 Because what praying that line invites you into is recognizing 194 00:10:00,170 --> 00:10:03,370 that he's already doing that. Like, I know you know, it looks 195 00:10:03,370 --> 00:10:07,410 like you stumbled on to your friends and your job and your 196 00:10:07,410 --> 00:10:11,330 clothes and your roof, but really, all good things come 197 00:10:11,330 --> 00:10:13,090 from above, from the father of lights. 198 00:10:13,330 --> 00:10:16,970 So everything good in your life, because he's the origin of good, 199 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:20,370 is from him. So, like praying, this prayer is 200 00:10:20,370 --> 00:10:24,270 in an invitation to gratitude. And then also an invitation till 201 00:10:24,270 --> 00:10:27,550 the day we die like breath out of our nose, praying that every 202 00:10:27,550 --> 00:10:30,590 day, like relying on him, relying on him for provision. 203 00:10:30,590 --> 00:10:37,950 I'm gonna take a drink of water. So we know we have a God who 204 00:10:37,950 --> 00:10:40,070 cares, so why don't we go to him? 205 00:10:40,110 --> 00:10:42,950 Like what are the barriers? I think there are a lot of 206 00:10:42,950 --> 00:10:47,350 barriers, but I think for us, especially in this context, one 207 00:10:47,350 --> 00:10:51,390 of the barriers is a really well learned habit of self-reliance. 208 00:10:52,590 --> 00:10:55,510 There are many people in this congregation who are very 209 00:10:55,510 --> 00:10:57,350 competent. They're intelligent. 210 00:10:57,550 --> 00:11:00,870 You have multiple degrees at the end of your name, Okay every 211 00:11:00,870 --> 00:11:03,790 other room you show up. You're reliable, you're smart, 212 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:06,310 and that's amazing. I am happy for that. 213 00:11:07,110 --> 00:11:10,030 But the Lord is not impressed by you impressing right? 214 00:11:10,030 --> 00:11:14,310 Like there's there's something about self-reliance that that 215 00:11:14,350 --> 00:11:17,430 ultimately takes away from God's provision. 216 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:19,440 Because. This is what we've been doing 217 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,920 from Eden onwards, right? From like the very beginning 218 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,120 we've been trying to find our bread in other places. 219 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,040 It doesn't work out. We run away, we go into the 220 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,680 bushes and then God comes chasing after us and we hold on 221 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,720 to our fig leaves of shame and self-sufficiency. 222 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,080 So praying this prayer is now an invitation for us to like leave 223 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,000 that pattern that we have to repent. 224 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,840 We have to turn away from being self reliant because what is at 225 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,790 the heart of self-reliance? It's pride. 226 00:11:50,070 --> 00:11:53,790 It's saying self above God. It's telling God like, hey, I 227 00:11:53,790 --> 00:11:55,350 know you're the God who sits on the throne. 228 00:11:55,590 --> 00:11:57,350 I know you know they end from the beginning. 229 00:11:57,590 --> 00:11:59,750 But I feel like I run my life pretty well. 230 00:11:59,910 --> 00:12:03,030 Like, I think I can handle this. And we don't say this with our 231 00:12:03,030 --> 00:12:06,830 words, but we acted out. We acted out with 232 00:12:06,830 --> 00:12:09,310 prayerlessness. We acted out when we rush out of 233 00:12:09,310 --> 00:12:11,630 the door. We acted out when we don't ask 234 00:12:11,630 --> 00:12:14,790 for daily bread. And the reality is God is 235 00:12:14,790 --> 00:12:17,870 inviting us to a life with the Spirit. 236 00:12:18,210 --> 00:12:22,930 With the life sustained by God. Because in to be in this 237 00:12:22,930 --> 00:12:28,130 Kingdom, to be in the Kingdom of God, it's not just like we add 238 00:12:28,290 --> 00:12:30,570 Christian onto a bunch of other identities, right? 239 00:12:30,570 --> 00:12:32,450 It's like it's a different mindset. 240 00:12:32,450 --> 00:12:35,370 He calls us to be needy. We're creatures. 241 00:12:35,530 --> 00:12:38,010 We have a creator. And he's not apathetic. 242 00:12:38,010 --> 00:12:42,450 He's a father. In Matthew 18 three he says this 243 00:12:42,450 --> 00:12:45,050 thing about neediness. Truly, I say to you. 244 00:12:45,660 --> 00:12:49,140 Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter 245 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:52,220 the Kingdom of heaven. That doesn't make sense in our 246 00:12:52,220 --> 00:12:53,900 culture. Nobody tells you become more 247 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:55,700 like a child. OK, that is very 248 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:57,820 countercultural. Everything you do is trying to 249 00:12:57,820 --> 00:12:59,940 grow up. And Jesus is saying like, no, 250 00:13:00,140 --> 00:13:03,900 the posture you come to me is as a child, what do children do? 251 00:13:04,140 --> 00:13:06,860 Some of you are not parents. Some of you are look around 252 00:13:07,140 --> 00:13:08,660 origin. Children are everywhere, not 253 00:13:08,660 --> 00:13:09,820 here right now. They're in Sunday school. 254 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:13,060 But what children are do, what they do is they're bold. 255 00:13:13,380 --> 00:13:16,400 They ask. They need, they depend, they 256 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,720 act. They like, trust their parents 257 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,640 to provide. And So what? 258 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,520 Neediness. Ultimately, neediness in God is 259 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,440 trust. Neediness shows faith in the 260 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,400 faithfulness of God. So when we come to God, we have 261 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,520 to forget our PhD. We have to forget our masters. 262 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,000 We come to Him as children because that's the only posture 263 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,520 we receive, right? Like we can't front that some of 264 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,480 us have other barriers. So we can trust God for the 265 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,280 well-being of the world. We can trust God to help other 266 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,520 people, but we we we don't trust as much God's love for us, 267 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,440 right? Like maybe the perfect 268 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,000 Christians have earned it. The ones with 52 day church 269 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,000 attendances and 8.93 out of 9 foot to the Spirit and they have 270 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,960 Christ likeness radiating from their pores. 271 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,000 You know, those people, those good Christians, have earned 272 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,360 God's generosity. And the problem is we have 273 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,960 distorted views of God. Right. 274 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,920 Like that's a distorted view of God because how does God reveal 275 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,840 himself to us? He's a father. 276 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,440 You are not asking Vladimir Putin for daily red. 277 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,040 It's God. You're talking to your father. 278 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,040 And like, when when the scriptures describe God's love, 279 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,120 it's not just love, right. And that's a that word is 280 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,800 overused in our culture. The scripture says has said, 281 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,920 that's a very complicated word. I mean, there's no, like, actual 282 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,520 English equivalent for it, but it's 5 components. 283 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,440 Kindness. Mercy. 284 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,640 Loyalty. Faithfulness and love. 285 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,600 So it's a kind of covenantal love, action oriented. 286 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,480 It's a love that's coming towards you. 287 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,720 OK, so God's love, it's not passive. 288 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,920 He's coming towards you. He's coming for you, He's coming 289 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,120 to provide. And the problem is we have 290 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,240 gotten too used to broken patterns of human love. 291 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:02,200 Some of you are only no conditional love. 292 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,520 Some of you only know a stingy love. 293 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Some of you only know unfaithful love. 294 00:15:08,550 --> 00:15:11,270 And we impose that pattern upon God. 295 00:15:12,070 --> 00:15:14,910 The reality is, God is not like your father. 296 00:15:15,310 --> 00:15:17,510 He's not like your mother. He's not like your sister. 297 00:15:17,830 --> 00:15:19,950 He's not like your cousins. He's not like your boss. 298 00:15:20,150 --> 00:15:22,550 He is transcendent. And there's this thing we have 299 00:15:22,550 --> 00:15:25,190 to do with our minds, like we have to take it to the 300 00:15:25,190 --> 00:15:28,110 Scripture. We have to let him reveal 301 00:15:28,110 --> 00:15:31,590 himself to us, right? Because when we go to the 302 00:15:31,590 --> 00:15:35,110 scriptures, we see a God who so loved the world. 303 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:39,260 That he gave his one and only Son, that whoever should believe 304 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:42,100 in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 305 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:44,140 And if you look at that God, how? 306 00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:49,100 How can you not see a God who is so abundantly generous? 307 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:54,060 The cross assures us of God's generosity right when we, like 308 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:57,500 understand his character. Coming to him and praying for 309 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,820 daily bread becomes easy because you know he loves you. 310 00:16:04,740 --> 00:16:07,420 The reality is, even if you get into the habit of praying for 311 00:16:07,420 --> 00:16:10,180 daily bread, there's this tension in this relationship 312 00:16:10,180 --> 00:16:13,180 with God because sometimes he will not give you what you want. 313 00:16:13,780 --> 00:16:17,460 And we enter into places of disappointment as God makes us 314 00:16:17,460 --> 00:16:19,580 square with our needs and our wants. 315 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:23,740 I had one of these moments with God summer of 2022. 316 00:16:24,260 --> 00:16:27,740 I'm a graduate student, I need a summer TA ship and everyone in 317 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:32,180 my cohort got one but me. I did not have one and. 318 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,400 You see, I I could feel God on it. 319 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,680 Like I could feel something about God was moving that 320 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:38,600 situation. And so I go to him and I was 321 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,720 like, you know, God daily bread. I need job. 322 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,680 Like I need, I need money. And he's like, we're going to 323 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,840 work on financial stewardship and your materialism issues this 324 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,600 summer. And So what that meant? 325 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,480 Because you know what? I says my needs were my pretty 326 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,800 jewelry and my books and my cafe dates and my leg, things that 327 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,760 smell nice and my art, especially when I was sad, mad, 328 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,760 or feeling bad and God wasn't as not a fan of my consumerism. 329 00:17:02,190 --> 00:17:04,790 And I didn't want to work on it. He did, though, and so we 330 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:07,270 wrestled with it. He always wince, but he lets me 331 00:17:07,270 --> 00:17:11,430 process. And that summer I had my bare 332 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:13,390 necessities. I had my rent, I had my 333 00:17:13,390 --> 00:17:17,270 groceries, but nothing else. And I watched my bank account. 334 00:17:17,430 --> 00:17:21,630 I watched it go from 4 digits to 3 digits to 2 digits to 1 digit. 335 00:17:21,950 --> 00:17:24,349 And in that summer it was bitter bread. 336 00:17:25,270 --> 00:17:29,430 But but what did I learn? That some of the things I had 337 00:17:29,630 --> 00:17:32,730 had a hold on me. And he actually was changing my 338 00:17:32,730 --> 00:17:36,130 heart when I couldn't go running to them, a material like I 339 00:17:36,130 --> 00:17:37,930 actually became less materialistic I think that 340 00:17:37,930 --> 00:17:39,650 summer. And then because I wasn't 341 00:17:39,650 --> 00:17:42,170 running to them, I was running to him. 342 00:17:42,810 --> 00:17:45,930 So my intimacy with God, my reliance on him started 343 00:17:45,930 --> 00:17:48,690 increasing, right. So in that moment, it wasn't 344 00:17:48,690 --> 00:17:51,010 pleasant. Daily Brad, it wasn't sweet, but 345 00:17:51,010 --> 00:17:54,570 God did something. And OK, this is The funny thing. 346 00:17:54,850 --> 00:17:58,370 So after after I seem to have learned lesson, God started 347 00:17:58,370 --> 00:18:00,450 having money. Pop up all over the place. 348 00:18:00,650 --> 00:18:03,050 And I mean in the last two weeks of summer, I recouped all of my 349 00:18:03,050 --> 00:18:05,490 losses. So, like UBC, Sauter gave me 350 00:18:05,490 --> 00:18:07,290 like thousands of dollars for a grant. 351 00:18:08,330 --> 00:18:10,090 Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook fame. 352 00:18:10,330 --> 00:18:13,010 Apparently he was violating people's privacy in Illinois. 353 00:18:13,250 --> 00:18:17,610 I used to live in Illinois. He sent me $400.00 in the mail. 354 00:18:18,450 --> 00:18:21,490 Random. I ran, OK, this is this is how 355 00:18:21,490 --> 00:18:24,490 random it is. I ran into an organizer of 356 00:18:24,490 --> 00:18:26,930 synagogue events. They hired me to be their 357 00:18:26,930 --> 00:18:32,090 Gentile scribe, and I would go and I would have delicious meals 358 00:18:32,210 --> 00:18:35,970 with the Jewish community and I would literally write down their 359 00:18:35,970 --> 00:18:38,610 conversations because they can't work and they paid me hundreds 360 00:18:38,610 --> 00:18:41,690 of dollars. God is the God who pulls coins 361 00:18:41,930 --> 00:18:44,250 out of fish's mouths, OK? And I've experienced that aspect 362 00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:49,070 of God that summer. But yeah, the reality is we 363 00:18:49,110 --> 00:18:52,950 enter into tough places when we ask God for daily bread because 364 00:18:52,950 --> 00:18:56,030 he's our father. He's not a cosmic vending 365 00:18:56,030 --> 00:18:58,430 machine, right? It's not like F4 out pops the 366 00:18:58,430 --> 00:19:00,310 husband, although some of us would like that. 367 00:19:01,790 --> 00:19:05,350 It's he. He wrestles with our desires. 368 00:19:05,350 --> 00:19:09,670 He wrestles with it. And what he's doing is that he's 369 00:19:09,790 --> 00:19:11,550 purifying us. He's refining us. 370 00:19:11,910 --> 00:19:15,870 Some of you, some of you, might have unanswered prayers with 371 00:19:15,870 --> 00:19:18,800 God. And that unanswered prayer is 372 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,280 making you doubt the goodness of God. 373 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,440 God is not scared of your doubt, or your disappointment, or your 374 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:31,240 anger or your confusion. And in fact, if you try to 375 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,800 ignore it and God is good your way out of it, it's self 376 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:35,880 delusion. Don't do that. 377 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,200 Don't let it fester in the darkness. 378 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,320 Take it to him. He's your father. 379 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,280 What he'll do is he'll process you through it and at the end. 380 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:46,600 You will see his goodness, I promise you. 381 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,440 And you can be like David and say the Lord is my shepherd. 382 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,440 I shall not want. That's what happens when we go 383 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:57,920 to him. I want to pivot us to looking at 384 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,560 the word our this. OK, Our Daily Bread. 385 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,840 Right. This whole prayer is stunningly 386 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,720 communal. It doesn't start with my father. 387 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,210 It starts with our father. It's Our Daily Bread and to our 388 00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:14,530 Western sensibilities, to our individualistic culture, this is 389 00:20:14,530 --> 00:20:16,570 incredibly countercultural, right? 390 00:20:16,570 --> 00:20:20,330 There's this way that because we're so focused on the self, we 391 00:20:20,330 --> 00:20:23,130 can take that into our relationship with God, where it 392 00:20:23,130 --> 00:20:25,890 becomes God and me, and then everyone else is over there. 393 00:20:26,410 --> 00:20:30,770 But the reality is, loving God always extends into loving his 394 00:20:30,770 --> 00:20:34,050 people. So when you start praying God 395 00:20:34,050 --> 00:20:37,960 give us Our Daily Bread, you start praying for other people's 396 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,280 needs. You start becoming intimately 397 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,760 involved in the needs of others. That is what it means to take on 398 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,320 that prayer, Alright, It's not just God. 399 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,960 Here's my laundry list of things to do, although God cares about 400 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,440 that laundry list. It's like get to know your 401 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,280 neighbor well enough so you can pray for their calculus exam 402 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,120 next Saturday. Like, that's what that 403 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,280 invitation is into. What does your prayer life look 404 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,760 like? Do you spend time praying for 405 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,000 the needs of others? It's an invitation. 406 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,960 If you start praying for daily bread, you will soon start to 407 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,400 notice a discrepancy between God promising daily bread and in the 408 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,280 presence of the poor, starving and hungry among us. 409 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,080 How do we explain that? To be honest, in the next 10 410 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,160 minutes I can't explain that full discrepancy, but what I can 411 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:27,120 say is 2 things. The cross assures us that God is 412 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,440 not apathetic, that he's so involved He sacrificed his son, 413 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,930 that his son can't save us. And the resurrection assures 414 00:21:33,930 --> 00:21:37,170 that the redemption of all things is unfolding so that one 415 00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:40,970 day that all tears will be wiped, that one day all pain 416 00:21:40,970 --> 00:21:44,130 will cease, that one day all will be fed at the banquet of 417 00:21:44,130 --> 00:21:45,530 the Lord. Right. 418 00:21:46,010 --> 00:21:50,090 That is what the hope is. But we are in that messy middle 419 00:21:50,770 --> 00:21:54,290 where we do see brokenness of the world, but we see redemption 420 00:21:54,290 --> 00:21:56,850 unfolding. So we're called, I think we're 421 00:21:56,850 --> 00:22:01,230 called by the Spirit to groan, to groan in prayer, and to go 422 00:22:01,230 --> 00:22:03,670 deep for the prayers of those, for the needs of those around 423 00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:09,550 us. I think it also means that we 424 00:22:09,550 --> 00:22:11,590 become the hands and feets of Jesus, right? 425 00:22:11,590 --> 00:22:15,070 Christian love always moves towards the poor, the widow and 426 00:22:15,070 --> 00:22:17,710 the orphan. So not just in prayer, but also 427 00:22:17,710 --> 00:22:22,150 indeed one John 318 says let us not love in Word or talk, but 428 00:22:22,150 --> 00:22:25,670 indeed, and in truth. So there's something about me 429 00:22:25,670 --> 00:22:29,420 loving God that should make me move to using my resources, my 430 00:22:29,420 --> 00:22:32,260 time, my energy, my efforts towards those who have less than 431 00:22:32,260 --> 00:22:34,420 me. And we have a great example of 432 00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:38,580 this in our church. Many people here are involved in 433 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:39,780 the food hub. Yes. 434 00:22:40,060 --> 00:22:42,100 Can we can we throw woo if you're involved. 435 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:47,980 So the food hub from Origin helps combat food insecurity. 436 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:51,180 Dr. Auntie Joanne, Pastor Craig that they know. 437 00:22:51,180 --> 00:22:53,380 I know all of you volunteer. And what do they do? 438 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:56,860 They provide food for those who have or food insecure, right. 439 00:22:57,610 --> 00:23:01,170 And just this week alone, you guys, 264 households were served 440 00:23:01,490 --> 00:23:03,570 with over 900 people getting food. 441 00:23:03,890 --> 00:23:06,890 That is that is God moving through origin to be the 442 00:23:06,890 --> 00:23:09,850 handsome feet of Jesus. Like, do you see God working in 443 00:23:09,850 --> 00:23:12,810 that? That's the Spirit working even 444 00:23:12,810 --> 00:23:16,330 among starvation and hunger. So for us to pray for Our Daily 445 00:23:16,330 --> 00:23:19,890 Bread, we're moving into the prayer and provision for others. 446 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:24,490 I also want us to turn and look at the word daily. 447 00:23:24,690 --> 00:23:28,970 OK, it's daily bread. Not weekly, not monthly, not 448 00:23:28,970 --> 00:23:31,610 annually. And I think God does this in His 449 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:35,490 wisdom because if it was monthly bread, maybe some of us would 450 00:23:35,490 --> 00:23:38,010 show up for a monthly appointment, get our monthly 451 00:23:38,010 --> 00:23:40,650 bread, and we say peace out Jesus for the rest of the month. 452 00:23:41,490 --> 00:23:45,290 And the reality is the reality. God wants us to come for daily 453 00:23:45,290 --> 00:23:48,610 bread every single day, show up, and He's right there, right? 454 00:23:49,450 --> 00:23:55,810 But but the truth is, the truth is the truth is we often long 455 00:23:55,810 --> 00:23:59,850 for more than daily bread that your mind is often consumed with 456 00:23:59,850 --> 00:24:02,290 tomorrow, not even just tomorrow, five years from now, 457 00:24:02,570 --> 00:24:04,850 right? And so there's this impulse of 458 00:24:04,850 --> 00:24:08,210 the human mind to want to go, to be anxious about the future. 459 00:24:08,930 --> 00:24:11,410 And we see this with the Israelites who were just reading 460 00:24:11,410 --> 00:24:18,530 about Exodus 1619 to 21. And Moses said to them, let no 461 00:24:18,530 --> 00:24:21,090 one leave any of it over till the morning. 462 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,360 But they did not listen to Moses. 463 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,960 Some left part of it till the morning and it breadworms and 464 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,200 stink. And Moses was angry with them 465 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,880 morning by morning they gathered it each as much as he could eat. 466 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,240 But when the sun grew hot and melted, OK, so God is providing 467 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,640 daily mana. And they just like to like, 468 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,040 we're gonna hoard this. I'm gonna take this and put it 469 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,320 in our tent for tomorrow's. I can note I have provision for 470 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,760 Sunday. And then they wake up to a 471 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,980 pillow full of maggots. And that's what happens. 472 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:53,540 That's what happens when we move out of the daily right. 473 00:24:53,540 --> 00:24:56,900 God is saying, hey, you're going to trust my provision for today. 474 00:24:57,140 --> 00:24:58,860 And he shows up. God does it. 475 00:24:59,060 --> 00:25:04,260 For 40 years in the wilderness, God provides daily mana till 476 00:25:04,260 --> 00:25:07,020 they reach Canaan. So in the same way God, when he 477 00:25:07,020 --> 00:25:09,780 tells us, when Jesus tells us to pray, give us this day, Our 478 00:25:09,780 --> 00:25:12,820 Daily Bread. It's an entry into that mindset, 479 00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:15,620 into that practice. God is just like a radically 480 00:25:15,620 --> 00:25:18,670 present day oriented God, right? He says daily bread. 481 00:25:18,670 --> 00:25:22,510 He says new morning mercies, even the phrase this is the day 482 00:25:22,510 --> 00:25:24,950 that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it. 483 00:25:25,150 --> 00:25:26,630 That's a day we're talking about. 484 00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:30,830 And Jesus even goes to so far to say, why are you worrying about 485 00:25:30,830 --> 00:25:32,790 tomorrow? Each day has its own troubles, 486 00:25:32,790 --> 00:25:34,710 right? So if you have Sunday troubles, 487 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,310 don't pick up Monday troubles. I haven't given you the grace 488 00:25:37,310 --> 00:25:39,550 for Monday troubles, keep it on Sunday. 489 00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:44,980 So part of Christian maturity is focusing on the daily. 490 00:25:45,180 --> 00:25:49,260 Like if you train your mind to focus on the pain of the past or 491 00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:52,020 the worries of the future, you will end up with the mind in 492 00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:53,780 turmoil. This is not just scriptural, 493 00:25:53,780 --> 00:25:55,140 it's psychological, It's science. 494 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:59,260 And I feel like. I feel like the spirit of our 495 00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:03,500 age is just one of relentless anxiety, this constant busyness. 496 00:26:03,740 --> 00:26:06,660 It's like this throwing our hands up in the air, right? 497 00:26:06,660 --> 00:26:09,940 It's like and I feel like the perfect image to represent that 498 00:26:10,540 --> 00:26:13,010 is a headless chicken. Follow me. 499 00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:15,810 Follow me in this metaphor, this long, long metaphor I'm gonna 500 00:26:15,810 --> 00:26:18,490 explain to you right now. I come from a long line of 501 00:26:18,490 --> 00:26:20,250 Indian farmers. I know you don't know it when 502 00:26:20,250 --> 00:26:23,170 you look at me, but I do. No kings in my lineage, just 503 00:26:23,170 --> 00:26:25,690 Indian farmers. And I actually lived on a farm 504 00:26:25,970 --> 00:26:29,330 for a year in my childhood. I was a farm girl, you guys. 505 00:26:29,730 --> 00:26:33,250 And this is the thing about Indian farmers and Indian 506 00:26:33,250 --> 00:26:35,770 villagers. They're in touch with their 507 00:26:35,770 --> 00:26:36,810 meat. OK? 508 00:26:36,810 --> 00:26:39,530 There's no pink pounds of meat. You can buy it, save on foods 509 00:26:39,530 --> 00:26:41,910 for $20. None of that thinks moo and 510 00:26:41,910 --> 00:26:43,950 squawk before they end up on your table. 511 00:26:44,750 --> 00:26:49,470 And one of these days, when I was on the farm, I learned how 512 00:26:49,470 --> 00:26:51,670 chicken Curry became chicken Curry. 513 00:26:52,990 --> 00:26:55,310 I saw the death of a chicken is essentially what I'm trying to 514 00:26:55,310 --> 00:26:57,390 say. What happened? 515 00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:58,990 What happened? I've been trying to scrub this 516 00:26:59,150 --> 00:27:02,590 image from my mind for years, but what happened is that they 517 00:27:02,590 --> 00:27:03,910 chopped the head, chicken's head off. 518 00:27:03,950 --> 00:27:07,240 They decapitated. Did you know that when you take 519 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,040 the head of a chicken off that the neck and body can still 520 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,120 move, that will run and run and run without its head and then 521 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,920 collapse into a small dying heap? 522 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,000 Why am I bringing up decapitated chickens? 523 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,080 It's a great question. I when I was preparing for the 524 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,400 sermon I was like that is the image of our age, the striving, 525 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,720 this racing, this race to nothing, busy climbing, 526 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,480 achieving like for what? Headless chickens and 527 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,040 Christians. Christians enter into this 528 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,080 pattern, right? Can I tell you the solution? 529 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,320 Eat your daily bread. Like, believe in God's 530 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,840 provision. Like really believe in a God who 531 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,600 has redeeming your past, who's working in your present, and 532 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,840 who's preparing your future, and discipline your mind to do that. 533 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,000 It really goes back to knowing who God is, you guys. 534 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,560 Like if we actually believe in a Father who sits on a throne with 535 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,880 billions of angels at His command, who loves you. 536 00:28:03,650 --> 00:28:06,290 And we believe in a Jesus who's sitting right next to him, who 537 00:28:06,290 --> 00:28:08,330 also loves you, who's praying for you, by the way. 538 00:28:08,770 --> 00:28:11,530 And we believe that we're inhabited by the spirit of God, 539 00:28:11,730 --> 00:28:14,450 who's in us, counseling us, teaching, advising. 540 00:28:14,650 --> 00:28:17,530 How can we stay in a constant state of worry? 541 00:28:17,850 --> 00:28:20,810 Like, if we really catch that revelation and we keep it in our 542 00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:25,170 mind, we meditate on it. I think it's a it's a real, real 543 00:28:25,170 --> 00:28:27,370 solution to the anxiety of our age. 544 00:28:28,170 --> 00:28:30,940 So that's an invitation of daily bread, right? 545 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:33,540 Like the problem is not that we have problems. 546 00:28:33,540 --> 00:28:34,740 You're always going to have problems. 547 00:28:34,980 --> 00:28:37,660 Your problem is that your problems look bigger than God. 548 00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:41,580 This is why A W Tozer says as God is exalted to the right 549 00:28:41,580 --> 00:28:45,220 place in our lives, 1000 problems are solved all at once. 550 00:28:45,540 --> 00:28:48,940 So let God become bigger in your mind than your problems. 551 00:28:49,140 --> 00:28:51,940 Sing it, praise it, read it until it's your reality. 552 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:58,220 Eat the daily bread. I want to close us with pointing 553 00:28:58,340 --> 00:29:03,580 the connection between Jesus saying this is give us this day 554 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:08,340 Our Daily Bread, and Jesus as the living bread right over and 555 00:29:08,340 --> 00:29:10,300 over Jesus calls himself the bread. 556 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:15,380 We read this in John 6:30 when he says what sign then will you 557 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:17,260 give that we may see it and believe you? 558 00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:20,780 What will you do? Our ancestors ate the mana and 559 00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:23,540 the wilderness as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven 560 00:29:23,540 --> 00:29:25,700 to eat. Jesus said to them very truly, I 561 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:28,830 tell you, it is not Moses who has given you bread from heaven, 562 00:29:28,950 --> 00:29:31,230 but it is my Father who gives you true bread from heaven. 563 00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:33,630 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from 564 00:29:33,630 --> 00:29:35,430 heaven and gives life to the world. 565 00:29:36,430 --> 00:29:38,950 Sir, they said, always give us this bread. 566 00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:42,310 Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. 567 00:29:42,470 --> 00:29:46,310 Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes 568 00:29:46,310 --> 00:29:51,320 in me will never be thirsty. Jesus is not talking about 569 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,960 ordinary hunger or ordinary thirst. 570 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,600 He's talking about your soul's hunger for Him, right? 571 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,360 Like if you got the mansion and the great spouse and a six 572 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,280 figure salary and the 2.5 kids and the golden retriever, there 573 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,320 would be something in you that would still feel like there's 574 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,240 this like hole, like something that needs to be filled. 575 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,600 And that's not a mistake. The very reason for your 576 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,400 existence, for your creation, was to Make Love him, to know 577 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,190 him, to have him be the lover of your soul. 578 00:30:23,310 --> 00:30:26,590 And the problem is, we know this, but we have other voices, 579 00:30:26,990 --> 00:30:30,070 idols. Things pop up in our heart to 580 00:30:30,070 --> 00:30:32,910 take the throne of our hearts. And these idols, they have 581 00:30:32,910 --> 00:30:35,950 voices, they whisper, They tell you what life is really about. 582 00:30:36,230 --> 00:30:39,270 They give you stories, right one common one, finding your true 583 00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:42,030 love, that salvation is in the arms of a lover. 584 00:30:42,630 --> 00:30:45,550 Or hey, you know you'll know you're worthy when you go up 585 00:30:45,550 --> 00:30:48,230 that career ladder and you get to the top and you're higher and 586 00:30:48,230 --> 00:30:51,680 faster than anyone else. Or filling your life with 587 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,960 material possessions shows you a person of value. 588 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,560 Like when you can do good things and, like have good things, 589 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,640 that's when you know you made it. 590 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,320 Or pleasing your parents or people group. 591 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,680 Like if you can do that, you've made it. 592 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,240 And none of those things are in of themselves are bad. 593 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,640 They're not. But they can't be ultimate. 594 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,880 They can't be God. They can't handle the weight of 595 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,390 that because when they do get elevated, they cause death, 596 00:31:17,670 --> 00:31:20,390 physical, spiritual, emotional death. 597 00:31:21,390 --> 00:31:24,830 So what's the solution? The gospel, the gospel comes to 598 00:31:24,870 --> 00:31:27,750 oppose and radically transform those stories, right? 599 00:31:27,950 --> 00:31:31,030 It comes to tell you, hey, this is the capital T true story, 600 00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:35,910 that by fellowshipping with God daily, hearing him daily, seeing 601 00:31:35,910 --> 00:31:40,510 his beauty daily the beauty and glory of the gospel dwarfs 602 00:31:40,790 --> 00:31:44,250 everything else. And you realize Jesus is life 603 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:47,370 and life abundant, that he is my true love, that he is the joy I 604 00:31:47,370 --> 00:31:52,330 could want, He is all my riches. When Jesus calls himself the 605 00:31:52,330 --> 00:31:55,010 living Bread, he's inviting you into life. 606 00:31:55,690 --> 00:31:58,570 This is why Revelations 320 says, behold, I stand at the 607 00:31:58,570 --> 00:32:01,730 door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and 608 00:32:01,730 --> 00:32:05,450 opens the door, I will come to him and eat with them and he 609 00:32:05,450 --> 00:32:09,490 with me. If we become a people who eat at 610 00:32:09,490 --> 00:32:13,780 Jesus table, I think we would find that a lot of our needs are 611 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:17,660 taken care of, that we would grow in love for others and that 612 00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:21,180 the love and peace of God would coat our souls, that we would 613 00:32:21,180 --> 00:32:25,980 find our souls satisfied by him and I want to end. 614 00:32:26,020 --> 00:32:29,140 As we move into communion and we eat of the bread, we're 615 00:32:29,140 --> 00:32:33,100 reminding ourselves of Jesus the bread of life, that we open 616 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:36,340 ourselves in receiving Him. To be the provider of your 617 00:32:36,340 --> 00:32:40,100 physical, emotional, spiritual needs today, join me in prayer. 618 00:32:42,620 --> 00:32:46,660 Father, we thank you. We thank you that we are beloved 619 00:32:46,660 --> 00:32:51,780 children and that you're a father who cares for our needs, 620 00:32:51,980 --> 00:32:54,140 who sees things that others can't see. 621 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:58,340 Give us the humility to come this week to you for daily bread 622 00:32:58,540 --> 00:33:01,380 for the rest of our lives. And I pray that the places that 623 00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:05,380 are hurting, that haven't been examined in a wild that your 624 00:33:05,380 --> 00:33:06,860 light would touch it and it would heal it. 625 00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:09,140 We thank you for all that you do for us. 626 00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:11,110 In your beautiful name we pray. Amen. 627 00:33:17,270 --> 00:33:20,670 It truly be who you've created us to be. 628 00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:25,510 Would you return the joy of our salvation to each of us as we 629 00:33:25,510 --> 00:33:33,670 confess to you our need of you, as we confess to you how we have 630 00:33:34,510 --> 00:33:38,830 left you, how we may have hardened our heart towards you? 631 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,680 As we confess to the shallow activities and busyness of our 632 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:53,520 lives where we've neglected to the true bread of heaven, oh 633 00:33:53,520 --> 00:34:02,840 Lord, return that joy to us. It's only in this way that we 634 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,360 can endure the hardship of this life. 635 00:34:12,370 --> 00:34:16,170 It's the only way that you and yourself endured the cross. 636 00:34:18,050 --> 00:34:23,929 And so we remember the scripture says that on the night that 637 00:34:24,010 --> 00:34:28,290 Jesus was betrayed, he met with his disciples and he took bread 638 00:34:29,010 --> 00:34:33,210 and he broke it. And when he had given thanks, he 639 00:34:33,210 --> 00:34:39,050 shared it with them and said, Take eat this in remembrance of 640 00:34:39,050 --> 00:34:56,960 me. In the same way, after the 641 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,160 supper, Jesus took the cup and he said, This cup is the new 642 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,680 covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink it in 643 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:16,030 remembrance of Me. The scripture says that whenever 644 00:35:16,030 --> 00:35:19,950 you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the 645 00:35:19,950 --> 00:35:22,350 Lord's death until he comes again. 646 00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:34,550 Lord Jesus, come, come quickly. So I grew up with a very funny 647 00:35:34,550 --> 00:35:37,150 Southern phrase in the United States. 648 00:35:38,010 --> 00:35:42,730 That went something like this. You blessed our socks off. 649 00:35:42,730 --> 00:35:47,970 OK, Do you know that phrase? If you've ever done Origin kids 650 00:35:48,010 --> 00:35:51,810 out of and Acadia, we used to say our goal tonight is to bless 651 00:35:51,810 --> 00:35:54,770 their socks off, right? That those kids would lose their 652 00:35:54,770 --> 00:35:57,530 socks. Hey, I lost my socks. 653 00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:00,010 That was so good. You just blessed our heart. 654 00:36:00,010 --> 00:36:01,130 Yeah. Tell her thank you. 655 00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:04,610 So good. I'm delighted in what the Lord 656 00:36:04,610 --> 00:36:09,790 has done among us today. Let's give our blessing to each 657 00:36:09,790 --> 00:36:19,270 other today. Now may the God of peace make 658 00:36:19,270 --> 00:36:24,350 you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and 659 00:36:24,350 --> 00:36:29,750 body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 660 00:36:30,390 --> 00:36:35,270 God will make this happen, for He who calls you is faithful. 661 00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:39,530 May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 662 00:36:40,490 --> 00:36:42,050 Amen. See you next week.