Give Us This Day
By Jim Murriner
Mt 6:11 "Give us this day our daily bread."
We saw in our first study on the Lord's Prayer that before anyone can pray they must first be a Child of God.
Gal. 3:26
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."
We also saw that no lost person, while thy still are dead in sin, can call on God for Salvation.
Eph. 2:1
"And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;"
John 9:31
"Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth."
We saw in that study also that each time we pray to God we must pray to Him as a Father, one who is able and willing to help us.
Then we saw in our next study that we must "Hallow" or "Sanctify" of set apart the Name of God. We must never seek anything from Him, and in doing so approach unto Him as if He is one of us.
Then we saw that we are to desire the Kingdom of God.
This we must do in two ways, first we must desire that our loved ones would be brought into the Kingdom of God.
We also are to desire that the Kingdom of God would rule over us. That we would live as if we were citizens of His Government.
Then in our study last Lord's day we saw that it is to be the desire of all who are saved that God's will be done in all things.
Now today we come to the next statement in the Lord's model prayer, " Give us this day our daily bread"
Notice how Our Lord teaches us to first seek for the Glory of God, then for our every need.
Mt. 6:33
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
Mt. 22:37
"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
As God gave the Ten Commandments unto His people, He told us first to Love and Honor God, then to love and honor our parents, then after that to honor and treat all people right.
Ex. 20:3
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
The First goal for the saved is not that we might do mighty works for the Lord, but that we might bring glory unto God.
John 8:49
"Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me."
I Cor. 10:31
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
We must be careful to realize that God will not share His Glory with another.
Isaiah 42:8
"I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images."
We need to beware that we do not prefer our own glory or the glory of our families over the glory of God.
I. Give us this day our daily bread
"Our necessary food"
Prov. 30:8
"Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:"
Mt. 6:11
"Give us this day our daily bread."
I Tim. 6:8
"And having food and raiment let us be therewith content."
We do not need to pray that God would make us rich.
I Tim. 6:9
"But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition."
I Tim. 6:17
"Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;"
Ex. 5:2
"And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go."
A. There is no disgrace in being poor, but there is no great honor in being poor either.
Prov. 30:9
"Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain."
Food as well as all blessings which we have is a gift of God.
James 1:17
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
In view of this all that we give God, whether our tithes, which do not belong unto us, but unto Him, or our service or whatever we might give unto Him, it was His first, it is given unto us and when we give it to Him we are returning His own unto Him.
I Chron. 29:14
"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee."
How then do we give Glory unto God.
Eph. 3:21
"Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Only in a church that teaches the Sovereignty of God."
Many writer who are not Baptist would agree with us, that this verse tells us that you can only give glory to God in and through His Church.
While many of those who agree with us on this verse believe that you enter the church at the same time that you get saved, that is not true. You enter the church of he Lord at the time you receive scriptural baptism.
