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                Ecclesiastes 12:10

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IN THE BIBLE,

WE ARE TAUGHT TO PRAY FOR OUR DAILY BREAD

 

 Matt. 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.

 

I CONFESS TO YOU,

I AM A BREAD LOVER.

 

* I know that some people blame bread

for a lot of things, undeservedly.

 

I read recently that most crimes are committed

within 24 hours of having eaten bread.

 

Most people who fail an exam have eaten bread 

on the day the exam was failed.

 

It has been found that poor performers at work

are almost without exception bread eaters.

 

 

WELL, I WANT TO GO ON RECORD.

I LOVE BREAD.

 

and I don't believe that any problems I might have

were caused by the consumption of bread.

 

 

YOU MAY NOT BOLDLY PROFESS YOUR LOVE FOR BREAD

AS I DO, BUT

IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY BREAD FOR LONG ENOUGH,

OR SOME SUBSTITUTE   (let them eat cake)

YOU WOULD CRAWL FOR A CRUMB.

 

You'd cry for the crust.

 

May say you wouldn't, but you would.

 

You must have bread,

or something in its place.

 

 

 

 

THEN ...  THE PLANT THAT GREW (in His instance)

OUT OF DRY GROUND    WAS CUT DOWN.

 

Messiah the Prince was

... cut off, but not for himself: ...  -   Dan. 9:26

 


THERE WAS A CUTTING, AND A GRINDING, AND A POUNDING.

 

      John 6:51         Jesus said, "... the bread that

   I will give is my flesh,

   which I will give for the life of the world."

 

The whip cut into his back,

the thorns were ground into His brow, as it were;

They pounded him with a reed.

 

Mark 15:19         ... they smote him

on the head with a reed, ...

 

The dough of His flesh

passed under the rolling pin

of the sin of man.

 

 

HE WENT THROUGH THE OVEN OF SUFFERING FOR US.

 

The leaven of our sin was placed in & on Him.

 

The Bible says that

    "... a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ..."

1 Cor. 5:6    &   Gal. 5:9

 

 

& Friend, He took more than a little,

He took it all.

 

2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

 

1 Cor. 5:7    Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: ...

 

 

He who was unleavened   became leavened, for us,

that we might be unleavened.

 

 

So He went through the oven of suffering for us.

 

BUT PRAISE GOD,

in keeping with our metaphor of bread,

THERE WAS A RISING,

 

AND THE BREAD OF LIFE CAME FORTH

FROM THAT OVEN OF SUFFERING,

 

RISEN AND AVAILABLE.

FOR ALL TO PARTAKE.

 

 

AND WE ARE HERE TODAY DELIVERING BREAD

OFFERING YOU THAT BREAD ...

 

THE BREAD OF LIFE,

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,

 

You can receive Him today.

 

 

Now, I'm obviously not talking about literal bread.

 

I'm talking about what Jesus said,

 

John 6:51    I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

                   You could partake today.

 

 

REMEMBER,

EVEN THE BEST BREAD MUST BE RECEIVED.

 

Hearing about bread won't satisfy.

 

Watching others eat won't satisfy you.

 

 

 

GOD HAS DESIGNED IT ALL IN A WAY

TO GIVE    "... bread to the eater:"   Isa 55:10

 

Are you an "eater" today?

 

                Then come and partake freely.

 

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The preceding is a sermon written by Ben Shepherd.

         Copyright 2003 Ben Shepherd

Permission is freely granted to those who minister

to use in public proclamation without stating attribution. 

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