Gratitude (3 of 5)
Series: Virtue
Jason Dees
Matthew 6:9-13
9 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Let’s Pray.
You know food has an interesting place in scripture. It’s kind of one of the major themes of
the whole Bible if you think about it the first thing that God says to man in Genesis 1 and 2,
Genesis 1 a more general story of creation, Genesis 2 a more particular account of the creation
of man and woman, the first words that God said to the man and the woman were, “I have given you food” and “you may eat”
And then if you think about the very end of the Bible, the very last chapter, it’s all about the people of God eating from the tree of life.
And all the way through the Bible there is eating, and drinking. It’s a huge theme and right in here in the middle of the Bible, well at the beginning of the New Testament, in the middle of Jesus’ model prayer we have this passage about eating, 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
If you have been with us over the last few weeks we have been in a series on Virtue where we have been looking at the Lord’s prayer, and prayer as a means to not just act more virtuously, or to learn more about virtue but to through prayer and to particularly praying in this way become more virtuous. Prayer has this has this way of readjusting you, not from the outside in but from the inside out. The materialistic world or the secular world has the outside in approach, you create the right environment on the outside, and people will flourish on the inside. Christianity on the other hand has an inside out approach. When you understand who you are, when you see truth, when your soul is at rest on the inside, it will transform who you are on the outside right. So a classic pass ...
Series: Virtue
Jason Dees
Matthew 6:9-13
9 “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Let’s Pray.
You know food has an interesting place in scripture. It’s kind of one of the major themes of
the whole Bible if you think about it the first thing that God says to man in Genesis 1 and 2,
Genesis 1 a more general story of creation, Genesis 2 a more particular account of the creation
of man and woman, the first words that God said to the man and the woman were, “I have given you food” and “you may eat”
And then if you think about the very end of the Bible, the very last chapter, it’s all about the people of God eating from the tree of life.
And all the way through the Bible there is eating, and drinking. It’s a huge theme and right in here in the middle of the Bible, well at the beginning of the New Testament, in the middle of Jesus’ model prayer we have this passage about eating, 11 Give us this day our daily bread.
If you have been with us over the last few weeks we have been in a series on Virtue where we have been looking at the Lord’s prayer, and prayer as a means to not just act more virtuously, or to learn more about virtue but to through prayer and to particularly praying in this way become more virtuous. Prayer has this has this way of readjusting you, not from the outside in but from the inside out. The materialistic world or the secular world has the outside in approach, you create the right environment on the outside, and people will flourish on the inside. Christianity on the other hand has an inside out approach. When you understand who you are, when you see truth, when your soul is at rest on the inside, it will transform who you are on the outside right. So a classic pass ...
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