Sister Sunny Sunday School 3/27/16

Give us this day our daily bread.  Jesus is the bread of life: He gives life, He sustains life, and through Him every need is supplied. 

His name (honor, authority, and character) is good.  What a friend!

Psa 54:6  I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.

Good - H2896 טוֹב ṭôb tobe From H2895; Good (well): - beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favoured]).

Psa 65:9  Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

Psa 65:10  Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Psa 65:11  Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

Psa 65:12  They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

Psa 65:13  The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

(Verse 11) Goodness -  Same as above good: H2896

He did not give us this light and life for us to keep it to ourselves.  Hide our light under a bushel, to him that gives shall be given, prophecy according to the grace given, receive not the grace of God in vain.

He broke the loaf of bread, His body was broken for us. 

Luk 22:19  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

Luk 22:20  Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

Through the Bible day by day FB Meyer:

As we partake of bread for our natural strength, so spiritual strength to suffer, to resist temptation and to serve is possible only in proportion as we feed on Christ by meditation and appropriation.

To appropriate is to take possession of and to make use of.  Jesus’ body was broken for our benefit.  The benefit can be ours if we have come through the door that He has opened for us of repenting, turning from our sin, and accepting the sacrifice that He made.  In doing this we appropriate His saving grace. 

It is the same with the other benefits that He bought for us with His broken body and sacrifice.  We must as we learn about Jesus and serving Him, apply ourselves through faith and walk in the light that He shines on our pathway and so appropriate, take possession of and make use of, the new life that He purchased for us. 

Food for Lambs by C.E. Orr
By prayer the soul is nourished and strengthened by the divine life. Do you long for deeper joys? For a greater sense of the divine fullness? For a sweeter balm of hope to be shed upon your soul? For a closer walk with God? Then live much in prayer. Do you desire to feel the holy flame of love burning in all its intensity in your soul? Then enkindle it often at the golden altar of prayer. Without prayer, the inner being will weaken, famish, and die; the fountain of love dry up; the spring of joy cease to flow; the dews will fail to descend; and your heart will become a parched and dreary desert waste.

Look upon the character of Jesus. Behold His lowliness, His meekness, gentleness, and tender compassion. Have they any beauty? And would you love to have them grace your own soul? Then draw them down from the skies in all their glorious fullness by the fervent prayer of faith. As through the process of assimilation food is transformed into an active, living being; so through the medium of prayer the character of Jesus in all its transcendent beauty and glory becomes the character of man.

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Adam Clarke - After, this is my body, the former adds, which is given for you; the latter, which is broken for you; the sense of which is: “As God has in his bountiful providence given you bread for the sustenance of your lives, so in his infinite grace he has given you my body to save your souls unto life eternal.

But as this bread must be broken and masticated, in order to its becoming proper nourishment, so my body must be broken, i.e. crucified, for you, before it can be the bread of life to your souls.

As, therefore, your life depends on the bread which God’s bounty has provided for your bodies, so your eternal life depends on the sacrifice of my body on the cross for your souls.”

Besides, there is here an allusion to the offering of sacrifice - an innocent creature was brought to the altar of God, and its blood (the life of the beast) was poured out for, or in behalf of, the person who brought it.

Thus Christ says, alluding to the sacrifice of the paschal lamb, This is my body which Is Given in your stead, or in your behalf; a free Gift, from God’s endless mercy, for the salvation of your souls.

This is my body (Co_11:24), which is broken - sacrificed in your stead; as without the breaking (piercing) of the body, and spilling of the blood, there was no remission.

The bread that they ate was unleavened as in remembrance of the Passover.  The unleavened bread is a symbol of a life without malice and wickedness; a life of sincerity and truth. 

1Co 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

1Co 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:

1Co 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Unleavened bread: Fausset’s bible dictionary - pure loaves, having no leaven, which ferments the dough and so produces corruption, and is therefore symbol of mortal corruption.

Unleavened bread is a symbol of Jesus and His sacrifice:  He was pure and without sin.  His was the perfect sacrifice of the unspotted lamb for our sins.  And He rose again from the tomb that we could in turn have newness of life through His life in us. 

Robert Hawker - concerning leavened bread, with which the blood of the sacrifice was never to be offered, what a beautiful type was this of the untainted, pure offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

Adam Clarke - Bread, simply considered in itself, may be an emblem apt enough of the body of our Lord Jesus, which was given for us; but the design of God was evidently that it should not only point out this, but also the disposition required and this the apostle explains to be sincerity and truth, the reverse of malice and wickedness.

The very taste of the bread was instructive: it pointed out to every communicant, that he who came to the table of God with malice or ill-will against any soul of man, or with wickedness, a profligate or sinful life, might expect to eat and drink judgment to himself, as not discerning that the Lord’s body was sacrificed for this very purpose, that all sin might be destroyed; and that sincerity, such purity as the clearest light can discern no stain in, might be diffused through the whole soul; and that truth, the law of righteousness and true holiness, might regulate and guide all the actions of life.

Had the bread used on these occasions been of the common kind, it would have been perfectly unfit, or improper, to have communicated these uncommon significations;

Joh 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

This is the only bread that will truly satisfy the longings of the human heart.  He told the woman at the well, “He that drinks of this water that I shall give him will never thirst; but it shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” 

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Word: (Adam Clarke) dabar in Hebrew, which means not only a word spoken, but also thing, purpose, appointment, etc. Our Lord’s meaning seems to be this: God purposes the welfare of his creatures - all his appointments are calculated to promote this end.

Romans 8:28 All things work together for good to them that love God and are the called according to His purpose. 

Even those things that seem to be detrimental or purposed to destroy us will work to our good because “God purposes the welfare of His creatures.” 

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

The offering Jesus made was a sweet smelling savor to God.  It is as when Noah made the sacrifice after the flood and God gave the promise in the rainbow that He would never destroy mankind by a flood again.  His anger was appeased.  In Jesus’ sacrifice God’s anger at man for sin was appeased. 

Not just any sacrifice would do.  He was the propitiation for our sins: the perfect sacrifice that would make atonement. 

Eph 5:1  Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Adam Clarke - in the offering and sacrifice of Christ for us, God is appeased towards the human race, and has in consequence decreed that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

He broke the loaf of bread; His body was broken for us. 

Matthew Henry - [1.] What they should do with it; “Take, eat; accept of Christ as he is offered to you, receive the atonement, approve of it, consent to it, come up to the terms on which the benefit of it is proposed to you; submit to his grace and to his government.” Believing on Christ is expressed by receiving him (Joh_1:12), and feeding upon him, Joh_6:57, Joh_6:58. Meat looked upon, or the dish ever so well garnished, will not nourish us; it must be fed upon: so must the doctrine of Christ.

[2.] What they should have with it; This is my body, not outos - this bread, but touto - this eating and drinking. Believing carries all the efficacy of Christ's death to our souls. This is my body, spiritually and sacramentally; this signifies and represents my body. He employs sacramental language, like that, Exo_12:11. It is the Lord's passover. We partake of the sun, not by having the bulk and body of the sun put into our hands, but the beams of it darted down upon us; so we partake of Christ by partaking of his grace, and the blessed fruits of the breaking of his body.

Psa 65:1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

Performed - reciprocate.

Where are we getting our satisfaction?  Why are you spending your money on that which is not bread?