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Law of Provision
HEAVEN'S FIXED LAWS
Ron Dunn
Matthew 6:24-34
24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are ye not much better than they?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
There was a cross erected on Calvary long before there was a Garden of Eden ever made.
So God opens his hand and satisfies the desire of every living creature.
It is an interesting study to see how God specifically satisfies the desire and has made provision for every creature.
I was visiting my folks in Arkansas a few weeks ago.
We went out in the woods one day, and saw some robins.
It was the time of the year when the robins were beginning to come out.
We also saw a lot of sparrows.
Have you ever watched how a robin eats, and how a sparrow eats?
A robin is a large bird, very slow and deliberate.
Robins love to eat worms.
God has given them built-in radar.
Sometimes you sit down and watch a robin as he seeks out his food.
He will walk around the ground and duck his head.
He is getting that radar tuned in on that worm in the ground.
After awhile he finds out where the worm is, and he pulls that worm out.
Every time, before the robin will eat, he will lift his head and ask the blessing.
Then he will eat the worm.
That's the way the robin eats.
He will move around the ground, ducking that head, letting that radar pick up whatever vibrations that worm puts out.
He finds the worm, lifts his head to heaven, and eats the worm.
Now, what if God had made sparrows, that are much more plentiful and faster, to like worms and with built-in radar.
Well, the robins would starve to death!
While the robin was trying to find a worm, the sparrows would already have eaten all of them.
God didn't make the sparrows that way.
Sparrows don't seek out worms.
They will eat insects, flies, crumbs, straw, grass, and anything else they can find.
You see, God has made abundant provision for all things.
The same thing is true of a man's life.
Most of us this morning are worrying about the physical and materials needs of our lives because we are assuming responsibility that God never intended us to have.
There is only one way that you can be absolutely liberated and free today from the natural fears and frustrations that beset common man.
That is to bow before the law of provision and realize that what God possesses, he provides for.
You see, that puts the responsibility on God.
If I belong to God—lock, stock and barrel, if he owns me because he made me, if he owns me because he bought me with his blood, then God is obligated to meet my needs.
That is exactly what the Bible says he will do.
The Apostle Paul says to the church at Philippi, but my God shall supply all (A-L-L) your needs--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
He shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
This is what Jesus is talking about this morning.
You will never know God in his fullness, friends, until you come to the place that you are willing to trust God for provision.
This is one of the most important aspects of the Christian life.
Many of us are failing right here at this point.
Many of us are living Christian lives on Sunday morning but we are living pagan lives through the rest of the week.
I'll explain to you in a moment what I mean by that.
The step that you need to take in coming to know Christ in his fullness, and coming to know the joy and peace and the restfulness that Jesus wants us to have, is to come to acknowledge and bow before God's law of provision.
Jesus says, But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
What things?
Well, what you are going to eat, what you are going to drink, what you are going to wear--all these physical, material necessities of life--they shall be added unto you.
Now Jesus very clearly enunciates this law in three ways in this passage.
What is the law of provision?
If I am going to be able to look to God daily to meet every need that I have, if I am going to be released from anxiety and worry about the necessities of life, what am I going to have to do?
I.
You must value yourself.
Place a value upon your life.
Look at verse 26.
Jesus says,
Behold the fowls of the air: (Now, we are very biblical this morning.
That is exactly what we have done.
Jesus said to behold the fowls of the air so we have talked about robins and sparrows.
So we are right on the beam so far.) for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
(Now, notice this last question.)
Are ye not much better than they?
Aren't you much better than a bird?
Aren't you much better than they?
Jesus says why are you so uptight about these necessities of life?
Why do you feel you are responsible?
Why do you feel this way?
Look at the birds.
You never saw a bird planting a garden.
You never saw a bird reaping a harvest.
Yet your Heavenly Father takes care of them.
Your Heavenly Father feeds them.
Look at the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin, but I tell you Solomon in all his glory didn't have a suit like those lilies do.
Aren't you much better than they?
The first thing you have to do is place a value upon yourself.
You need to realize how important you are to God.
I know I am more important than a sparrow.
Now, a robin may have a little bit of edge on me, but I know I am more important than a sparrow.
And I know that I am more important than a flower that today is, and tomorrow is gone.
In a few days it will wilt and die.
If you pay $17 a dozen for those American red roses, and you set them in your living room, you will see in a few days how wilted they are.
I know that I am better than they are.
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