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In this sermon based on Luke 11:1-4, we explore the deeper meaning behind the prayer of "Give us our daily bread." We learn about the importance of aligning our hearts with God's agenda and finding contentment in His provision. Through this prayer, we discover how our physical needs are interconnected with our spiritual well-being.
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Sermon • Luke 11:1-4 • Give Us Our Daily Bread • Introduction
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say:
“Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.” (Luke 11:1-4 ESV)
– LEAD WITH AFFECTION – Our Father… • Acknowledge His worth in reverent adoration. • Our Father is present and powerful.
Praise Perspective • Before you ask for anything, your perspective on what you want must be healed. • This model of prayer shows that our deepest need is perspective, not circumstances.
Align your heart with God’s agenda. • This creates the Humility Perspective- • This is modern man’s worst nightmare because it’s all about HIS Kingdom, and NOT OURS.
This prayer shows us that we need…. • Roots in God and his kingdom; • Branches – praying “our” • Fruit
A.W. Pink makes this observation… • As for the petitions that concern ourselves, in them we may clearly discern an implied reference to each of the Persons of the blessed Trinity. Our temporal needs are supplied by the kindness of the Father.
Our sins are forgiven through the mediation of the Son. We are preserved from temptation and delivered from evil by the gracious operations of the Holy Spirit.
First, why does this request for our bodily needs come before those petitions that concern the needs of the soul? • Napoleon – “An army advances on it’s stomach.” • This petition shows us that we are to regard the physical body as part of God’s creation.
Second, what is meant by the term “bread”? • MARTIN LUTHER… • Here, now, we consider the poor breadbasket, the necessaries of our body and of the temporal life. It is a brief and simple word, but it has a very wide scope.
For when you mention and pray for daily bread, you pray for everything that is necessary in order to have and enjoy daily bread and, on the other hand, against everything which interferes with it.
Therefore you must open wide and extend your thoughts not only to the oven or the flour-bin but to the distant field and the entire land, which bears and brings to us daily bread and every sort of sustenance.
For if God did not cause it to grow, and bless and preserve it in the field, we could never take bread from the oven or have any to set upon the table.
Next, why do we ask God for our daily bread when we already have a supply on hand? • This call to prayer also reminds us of the way that we can reflect God’s grace toward us in that we might become the answer to someone else’s prayer.
One might ask, “How can we say bread is a divine gift when we are called to work for it?”
Jimmy Stewart in Shenandoah • Lord, we cleared this land, plowed it, sowed it, and harvested it. We cooked the harvest; it wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t be eating it if we hadn’t done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel but we thank you anyway lord for this food we’re about to eat. Amen
Martin Luther… • To comprise it briefly, this petition includes everything that belongs to our entire life in the world, because on that account alone do we need daily bread..
…Now for our life it is not only necessary that our body have food and covering and other necessaries, but also that we spend our days in peace and quiet among the people with whom we live and have interaction in daily business and conversation and all sorts of doings, in short, whatever pertains both to the domestic and to the neighborly or civil relation and government..
And there is, indeed, the greatest need to pray for temporal authority and government, as that by which most of all God preserves to us our daily bread and all the comforts of this life.
FINALLY, what is our Lord teaching by restricting the request to "our DAILY bread"? • This prayer acts as a guard against covetousness by taking our hearts daily to God as we seek to learn contentment.
RARE JEWEL OF CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT • Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
J.I. PACKER… • Will you now believe that what comes to you, much or little, is God’s answer, according to the promise of Matthew 6:33? • And will you on that basis be content with it, and grateful for it?
The ABC’s of coming to faith – • A - Admit that you’re weak and need grace and strength – That means there is GOOD NEWS FOR YOU • B- Believe that Jesus is the only savior who can heal your heart. • C- confess to God that you want to trust Jesus as your savior and Lord.
Our Father, which art 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 daily bread.And forgive us our debts,As we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
