Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNION IN PRAYER

Add to sermon: Talk about revelation 14 and the cup of wrath and the cup of joy. It is the weight of sin that brings us joy, knowing we are freed from it. It is the weight of sin that gives us urgency to preach the gospel. if you are not leaving the place of prayer with urgency for the lost I will ask you who’s desires are you recieving, yours or His?

We are going to go over the Lords prayer today, and you will be shows some beautiful verses about prayer. What the greats prayed, how we should pray. But im telling you right now, we can look at all the methods and symposiums on how to pray, but that will never give us the desire to pray. Prayer must be taught out of the sheer need for Christ. That is the only thing that will sustain your prayer. I don’t care how well you know how to pray, If you stop recognizing your need for christ, you will stop praying

Matthew 6:9–13 “Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

John 6:35 “Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

John 6:48–59 ESV

I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.

Luke 22:18–20 “For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

The life of prayer is a life of expectancy

Its so much more than just words, The pharisees loved to pray in the synagogue, because to them it was just words

Galilean weddings

In Galilean weddings, there were multiple phases. About a year before the wedding took place, the bride and the bridegroom would meet and the bride would have to sign a contract. A legal, binding contract. After this, the families would exchange gifts, which were costly. The bride would get the most valuable of gifts. Then, in front of witnesses, the groom would pour wine into a jar and hand it to the bride, at this point. She had the option to accept or reject this cup. Which was called the cup of joy. If she accepted, she would drink from the “cup of joy,” which would set in motion a series of events that both the bride and groom would do to prepare for the wedding. This custom was unique in Galilee, as it was not seen – the bride having a choice – in surrounding cultures. After she drank, the groom would seal the covenant by saying, “You are now consecrated to me by the laws of Moses, and I will not drink from this cup again until I drink it with you in my father’s house.” For every region surrounding Galilee, they had a designated day for their wedding. However, for the Galileans, their wedding was a surprise. For the Galileans, no one knew the day or the hour except the father of the bridegroom. Whenever the groom was ready, he would say, father, i want to go; I’m ready now, and the grooms father would say wait, I’ll tell you when. 

The groom would purchase costly materials to build on his father’s house. The groom and groomsmen would not know the day or the time he would be allowed to collect his bride, but only the groom’s father would know and tell him (sound familiar?)

The bride would buy quality garments and prepare for when her groom would come and collect her – usually in the middle of the night. She was to be ready, as well as her bridesmaids.

The bride didn’t know the day or the hour that the groom would return. So she ALWAYS had to be ready

WE MUST BE READY. It’s been 2,000 years. Thats about 740,000 days. WE BETTER BE READY Jesus is preparing rooms for us in heaven We don’t know the day or the hour, but we can know the approaching season that His return could take place

Matthew 25:1–13 ESV

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Matthew 25:14–30 ESV

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

A lack of prayer is a lack of stewardship. We are waiting for the groom to return. And those who get what they can get now will receive more, and those who busily bypass His initiative of intimacy towards us - for those, even what he had will be taken away.

This is why Jesus said eternal life is to know Him

John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”

COMMUNION IS NOT JUST ABOUT REMEMBERANCE OF HIS FIRST COMING, ITS ABOUT PREPAREDNESS FOR HIS 2ND

Conscience

The Lexham Bible Dictionary Pastoral Letters

1 Timothy 1:5

WHEN YOU SIN SHOULD YOU HAVE A DEFILED CONSCIENCE?

WE LOOK AT CHRIST AND CHRIST POINTS OUT OUR SIN.

Hebrews 4:14–16 “Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

Hebrews 3:1–6 “Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.”

Hebrews 3:12 “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.”

Hebrews 9:9 “(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,”

Hebrews 9:14 “how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.”

Hebrews 10:21–25 “and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

Hebrews 12:1–2 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Hebrews 12:3–5 “Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.”

Hebrews 12:6–11 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

Repentance

The amount you pray shows how much you know you need God. Start with repentance. EVERY GREAT MOVE OF GOD STARTED WITH REPENTANCE. BECAUSE IN REPENTANCE WE SEE OUR NEED FOR HIM. A EGOTISTIC VIEW OF OURSELVES TRIES TO SNEAK INTO THE GOSPEL AND IT CANNOT

Most of you know the story of Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. The first of these theses was this: When our Lord Jesus said “repent.” He meant that the whole of the Christian life should be repentance. You ever heard somebody say, well I repented twenty years ago, thirty years ago, ten years ago, it’s done and dusted. No it’s not done and dusted for Jesus. It is the whole of the Christian life. This transformation, this newness, this difference that is the Christian life, takes place only when we find ourselves bowing down to the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We need continual repentance

We need to repent

 Mark 1:4–5 “John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.”

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 5:16 ESV / 804 helpful votes 

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 609 helpful votes 

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 384 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Acts 19:18 ESV / 258 helpful votes 

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

John 5:18–21 “This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.”

The "hyper grace" movement is a theological viewpoint that excessively emphasizes God's grace to the point where it downplays or even denies the need for repentance, confession of sins, and moral responsibility in the Christian life, essentially teaching that once saved, a believer's sins are completely forgiven and there is no need to actively strive against sin, often leading to a perspective considered "antinomian" (against the law)

Philippians 3:9 “and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—” Philippians 3:12–14 “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 3:15 “Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.”

Philippians 4:8–9 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”

No need for ongoing repentance: Believers are taught that once saved, all past, present, and future sins are already forgiven, eliminating the need to

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it was your sin that put him there and you don’t want to celebrate him removing your sin while living in the very sin that he died for

to death with your sin means to confess it. It starts with an honest recognition of sin

The way culture treat sin so lightly is the way churches treat sin

We must not take sin lightly. James 1:13–17 “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”

James 1:18–27 ESV

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

There is no place for seeing yourself as a victim. You are not a victim, you are a transgressor. Sin didn’t happen to you. You out of your sinful nature chose it.

James is addressing the propensity we have to blame others for our sin. We love to blame others for our sin and say its not my fault.

Just like Adam did with eve. the woman you made led me into sin

Now we may not blame all of our sin on God, but James is saying we must not blame ANY of it on Him.

True confession starts with FULL recognition of sin.

It does us well to see sin, not to produce guilt, but to produce in us a weightiness that we truly have been removed from it.

Paul teaches that when we become Christians through faith in Christ, we are united to Christ so that his death counts as our death. And that’s true in two senses, not just one. First, it’s true in that the punishment we deserve for our sin was taken by Christ so that his death on the cross was our condemnation and so there’s now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

But the other sense in which his death counts as our death is that we really did die with him. In a profound sense, we really did come alive with him in his resurrection. And so the question that we’re asking is, in what sense did we die? What’s dead, and in what sense do we have newness of life? - John Piper

“You have died. So put to death what is earthly in you, immorality, impurity, passion.” Romans 6:11 “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”

So Paul did not say because you have died, there’s no battle.

Because you have died fight.

One of the best ways to fight

Luke 15:17–24 ESV

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.” ’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.

Luke 18:10–14 ““Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.””

Its not the recognition of sin, its the outcome of that recognition,

He said I have sinned, have mercy on me. He is asking for mercy because HE is asking God to restore Him to who God has made Him to be, now its different if He says I have sinned, make me guilty. He doesnt say that.

In both there is a recognition of sin, one is a reallignment with righteousness, one is a reallignment with death.

1 Corinthians 5:7 “Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”

Getting rid of it comes with both an acknowledgement that it is there AND an acknowledgement of who we are

The reality that we are made new in christ is not tainted by our recognition of sin it is upheld by our recognition of sin. IF YOU ARE MADE NEW , GET THAT SIN OUT OF THERE. THATS NOT WHO YOU ARE. YOU CAN HAVE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE AND STILL ACKNOWLEDGE SIN. BECAUSE A CLEAN CONSCIENCE IS NOT BASED ON OUR MISTAKES BUT ON HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.